Miner (Conventional Gold Mining)

Have a blasting certificate and a clean safety record? The deep-level gold mine near Vereeniging needs your crew leadership. If you learn fast and don't mind being shown things twice, you'll settle in within a few weeks.

This post is in Vereeniging (Gauteng). Please only apply if you can travel there daily. Hours are mostly Monday to Friday, with the odd Saturday in busy months.

• Stop work when a condition is unsafe, using your right to withdraw
• Record face advance, tons broken and support installed on the shift report
• Test for flammable gas and check ventilation before and after blasting
• Hold a start-of-shift safety talk and deal with any unsafe condition
• Book explosives in and out of the magazine and keep the register accurate
• Charge up holes and connect initiation systems for the blast
• Report misfires straight away and handle them strictly by the procedure

• Certificate of fitness from the mine medical station, including heat tolerance screening where required
• Able to lead a crew of 8 to 20 people in a language they understand
• Valid blasting certificate issued under the Mine Health and Safety Act
• No serious safety transgressions in your record

• Experience in trackless mechanised sections
• Rock engineering or ventilation short courses
• Shift Supervisor certificate or Mine Overseer learning

• Production bonus based on metres or square metres achieved
• Underground allowance for every shift below surface
• Housing or living-out allowance

• Be honest about any section 54 stoppages you were involved in and what you changed after.
• List each mine, commodity and mining method on your CV, like "conventional stoping, platinum, 4 years".