Profession mining electrician

Mining electricians install, maintain and repair specialised electrical mining equipment using their knowledge of electrical principles.  They also monitor mine electricity supply.

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Personality Type

• Realistic / Investigative
• Enterprising / Conventional
• Realistic / Conventional

Knowledge

• Electricity

  Understand the principles of electricity and electrical power circuits, as well as the associated risks.

• Electronics

  The functioning of electronic circuit boards, processors, chips, and computer hardware and software, including programming and applications. Apply this knowledge to ensure electronic equipment runs smoothly.

• Electrical mine machinery manuals

  Understand equipment manuals, including schematic drawings and electric circuit diagrams.

Skills

• Communicate mine equipment information

  Communicate transparently and efficiently with mine production management and machine operators. Pass on any relevant information such as outages, efficiency and productivity of the equipment.

• Maintain electrical mine machinery

  Inspect and conduct planned maintenance of electrical mining equipment. Conduct routine repairs and replace damaged components. Analyse test results and machine error messages.

• Train operators in using mine machinery

  Demonstrate mining equipment features and functions to machine operators.

• Troubleshoot

  Identify operating problems, decide what to do about it and report accordingly.

• Install electrical mining machinery

  Assemble and disassemble electrical mining machinery. Requires hand and eye coordination and spatial awareness.

• Report mine machinery repairs

  Record repair and maintenance tasks executed.

• Maintain records of mining operations

  Maintain records of mine production and development performance, including performance of machinery.

• Test mine equipment

  Test newly repaired machinery or mining equipment to ensure correct operation.

• Conduct inter-shift communication

  Communicate relevant information about the conditions in the workplace, progress, events, and potential problems to the workers in the next shift.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB