Worrking In The Mines
#1
Posted 12 March 2012 - 06:18 PM
#2
Posted 12 March 2012 - 06:35 PM
#3
Posted 12 March 2012 - 06:48 PM
If you are not trade qualified things get harder. Without a trade you will be looking at TA roles which are easily filled. To stand out get a hr license, book yourself into an Aveling induction for Rio. Or do a scaffolding/dog man or rigger qualification intermediate or advanced and get some local work in around the metro at whatever pay rate to gain experience.
Plant operators are agin tricky you could do a training course and have no experience that a mine wants. In this situation you need to apply to the small players to get experience in places like Murrin, nifty etc - now these pay bottom end but the experience is invaluable and a stepping stone to bigger and better after a one or two year stint.
Currently I need top end operators:
Digger above pc1250 with greater than 2 years experience
992 loader ops with the same or greater experience
Mobile crushing operators (very different to production mining)
Civil operators with 2+ years with trimming experience
Shot firer with 5 years blast crew
And the list goes on
Give me a call and if I can help or steer you in the right direction I will, but it is not as easy as most believe unless as my first sentence indicates you are lucky.
As an aside, site compliance is getting bigger and the costs to get someone site ready are going up.
As an example for me to get a guy onto a bhp site costs about $1500 which takes about $45000 to recover as part of my billing which is about 12 weeks on site. So when you do finally get a gig from someone look at the big picture before jumping to another site for 50cents an hour. If you give a little loyalty you will gain a lot back.
Hey scotty if you are poly welding speak to Gfr in midland they have a large number of Rio contracts.
#4
Posted 12 March 2012 - 06:56 PM
#5
Posted 12 March 2012 - 07:12 PM
Then go from there, all they want is strong blokes who can work hard and know a bit about a few things mechanical.
#6
Posted 12 March 2012 - 07:30 PM
#7
Posted 12 March 2012 - 08:00 PM
#8
Posted 12 March 2012 - 08:21 PM
im a carpenter by trade and have a hc licence, forklift licence,
i was looking at getting into building the accomadation on some of the mine sites
gorgan project etc applied through Thiess but have been put on a waiting list
but persistance is the key a friend of mine sent his resume every day and rang them to find out
how his application went and he got a job within a couple of weeks
good luck
#9
Posted 12 March 2012 - 08:46 PM
#10
Posted 12 March 2012 - 08:49 PM
Started with basically no tickets cause i'm a landscaper by trade. Now have working at heights, EWP, forklift, telehandler, backhoe, dogging, rigging, crane and soon to be put through welding. Probably have close to 15k in tickets now. Also had 18k in pay rises in my 6 months.
I just chose an entry level position and ran with it. It was only ever a stepping stone to get into mining but I've shown loyalty and worked hard and they are looking after me.
#11
Posted 12 March 2012 - 08:59 PM
Now everyone wants to work for the big 4 (rio, bhp, fmg & chevron) but for greenies start in a 2nd or 3rd tier provider such as abigroup, ertech, civmec, diab, transfield services, lend lease, pilbarra access, Phoenix, nomad, fleetwood, bgc, cimeco, brierty, Carey mining, central mining construction etc
If you have a hc try going the side tipper option and to get experience speak to companies like RJ Vincent, musgrave contracting, bj catalano, castle, wa limestone, stone civil etc for metro that will provide the skills for mining. Also look at quarrying for companies like holcim in port hedland, karratha byford.
Lots of avenues but you must walk before you can run, no company is going to give a guy or gal a million dollar plus piece of gear and say go learn so start small and go big ie. Water cart to arctic dumpy to small rigids (773) and work to 785 etc
Good luck
#12
Posted 12 March 2012 - 09:02 PM
#13
Posted 12 March 2012 - 09:16 PM
#14
Posted 13 March 2012 - 12:20 AM
#15
Posted 25 March 2012 - 02:24 PM
#16
Posted 25 March 2012 - 03:00 PM
I hate the mines has made WA a S%^^ place to live with only one option to survive... The mines.
I might go on the doll and let all the rich miners pay my way I think...
#17
Posted 25 March 2012 - 03:09 PM
#18
Posted 25 March 2012 - 03:12 PM
Edited by Neakit, 25 March 2012 - 03:12 PM.
#19
Posted 25 March 2012 - 06:19 PM
#20
Posted 25 March 2012 - 06:21 PM
I hate the mines has made WA a S%^^ place to live with only one option to survive... The mines.
I might go on the doll and let all the rich miners pay my way I think...
the point still stands though! the cost of living here is getting stupid, im thinking of moving away after i get my degree.
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