| Top Tasks (Specific duties and responsibilities of this job.) |
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| Select locations and plan underground or surface mining operations, specifying processes, labor usage, and equipment that will result in safe, economical, and environmentally sound extraction of minerals and ores. |
| Design, implement, and monitor the development of mines, facilities, systems, or equipment. |
| Inspect mining areas for unsafe structures, equipment, and working conditions. |
| Examine maps, deposits, drilling locations, or mines to determine the location, size, accessibility, contents, value, and potential profitability of mineral, oil, and gas deposits. |
| Select or develop mineral location, extraction, and production methods, based on factors such as safety, cost, and deposit characteristics. |
| Prepare technical reports for use by mining, engineering, and management personnel. |
| Monitor mine production rates to assess operational effectiveness. |
| Prepare schedules, reports, and estimates of the costs involved in developing and operating mines. |
| Lay out, direct, and supervise mine construction operations, such as the construction of shafts and tunnels. |
| Devise solutions to problems of land reclamation and water and air pollution, such as methods of storing excavated soil and returning exhausted mine sites to natural states. |
| Top Skills used in this Job |
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| Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. |
| Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
| Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
| Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. |
| Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
| Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. |
| Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
| Systems Analysis - Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. |
| Mathematics - Using mathematics to solve problems. |
| Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
| Top Abilities (Attributes of the person that influence performance in this job.) |
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| Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
| Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
| Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
| Written Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. |
| Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. |
| Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
| Information Ordering - The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
| Category Flexibility - The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
