Dumper Driver — Bauxite

About this role

Mine Operations runs the working: drilling, blasting, loading, hauling and the production plan they serve.

Haul from the face to the crusher on the plateau. The roads are steep and wet for months of the year, and how you drive them is most of the job.

Several posts here are statutory under the Mines Act 1952 and the applicable regulations — Mine Manager, Overman, Mining Mate, Blaster, Winding Engine Driver — and cannot be held without the certificate of competency. That is not a preference; it is the law, and it is why the postings state it plainly rather than burying it. The monsoon decides half the year at most of our sites.

Primary responsibilities

• Drive a haul truck between the bauxite faces and the crusher on the plateau
• Handle the plateau haul roads and the gradients, particularly in monsoon when traction changes
• Spot, load and tip as directed and to the mine traffic rules
• Carry out pre-start checks and report defects

Skills required

Day to day this role works with Heavy Vehicle Driving, Haulage and Ghat Driving.

• Valid heavy vehicle licence with two or more years driving dumpers
• Experience on ghat or hill roads
• Two or more years driving haul trucks at a mine
• Handling gradients and plateau haul roads, particularly in monsoon
• Spotting, loading and tipping to the mine traffic rules
• Pre-start checks and defect reporting
• A valid heavy vehicle licence

Preferred

None of these are required. They are the things that would help, and a strong application is regularly missing all of them.