Mine Manager — Bauxite

About this role

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

Hold statutory charge of the bauxite mine on the plateau. The working is opencast on a hilltop, the ore goes down to the refinery by conveyor, and the monsoon here decides half your year.

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

• Hold the statutory charge of the bauxite mine on the Panchpatmali plateau under the Mines Act 1952
• Be responsible in law for the safety of everyone employed at the mine
• Direct production against the approved mining plan and feed the refinery to its requirement, which is what the whole operation exists to do
• Manage the constraints of a plateau operation: the ghat road, the conveyor to the refinery, and a monsoon that decides half the year
• Ensure statutory inspections, registers and returns are made and are true
• Represent the mine to DGMS, the state authorities and the district administration

Skills required

Day to day this role works with Leadership, Mine Management, Statutory Compliance and Opencast Mining.

• First Class Manager's Certificate of Competency (Metalliferous)
• Twelve or more years in opencast metalliferous mining
• Have run a hilltop or plateau working through a full monsoon
• First Class Manager's Certificate of Competency under the Mines Act 1952, valid and current