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Support Technician - Underground Mining

OZ Minerals

Location: Bosworth

Job Type: Full time

Posted


Join Australia's most exciting new underground mining project. Carrapateena will be a large scale world class mine built and operated by world class people. We are building a modern mine site in South Australia and getting operationally ready for seamless commissioning. This role is now available and we need your help.

At OZ Minerals Carrapateena, we value your ideas and encourage you to champion innovation and collaboration. We are a mid-tier mining company so you will not get lost in the crowd or tangled in bureaucracy. Rather, we unlock your value and offer opportunities that supercharge your career.

Your New Role

Carrapateena is a large-scale, world class modern mine operated by world class people. This exciting role is now available, and we want the very best of the best on deck to lead the team and collectively deliver exceptional results.
At OZ Minerals Carrapateena, we believe our greatest asset is our people and we are working hard to provide a wonderful mix of age, cultural and geographical backgrounds to further enrich our inclusive workplace culture. We truly value your ideas and encourage you to champion innovation and collaboration, we are here to unlock your value and offer opportunities that supercharge your career to go beyond what is possible.

Location: Carrapateena, South Australia (60-minute flight from Adelaide / 30-minute flight from Port Augusta)
Roster: 8 days on; 6 days off, 7 nights on; 7 nights off
Pay & Benefits: Our employees are a valued stakeholder at OZ Minerals, we want to attract the very best talent to join our team. As such, what we offer is generous when compared to Australian mining industry pay and benefits. We are more than happy to share specifics later.
Work Life Plans: We believe in empowering our people to make their own choices on how they can best achieve their work. Employees working with OZ Minerals create a tailored individual work-life plan which is based on their ‘whole of life’ needs taking into consideration both role requirements and personal/family life – flexible working is real and is supported by our entire Executive Leadership Team.

How You Will Create Impact

In the role ‘Support Technician – Mining (Geology)’ you will be responsible for working within a team of geologists and technicians to execute:

Underground geological sampling:

  • Wall channel chip sampling
  • Face grab sampling
  • Production ring grab sampling
  • Associated data entry with all above

Geological core yard operations:

  • Core metre marking, and orientation
  • Core SG measurements and cutting
  • Creating drill core laboratory dispatches
  • Geotechnical data capture – RQD, Fracture Frequency,
  • Geology stocktakes including core yard supplies and stores ordering.
  • Daily and EOM stockpile inspections
  • Assist with the development, implementation, and ongoing improvements of Mine Geology systems in line with the OZ Minerals strategy.

What We Value and You Value Too!

  • Competent manual driving
  • High-Risk Forklift licence.
  • Experience in an underground mining environment
  • Understanding of underground development process
  • Core yard diamond drill core processing
  • Able to make confident and timely decisions when working under high-pressure situations
  • Strong communication skills and proven ability to work in a team
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver and drive safe practices
  • Computer skills, including exposure to Microsoft office.

Key How We Work Together Behaviours Are:
Planning: I find the root cause of problems and implement solutions
Delivering: I use initiative and deliver high quality outcomes
Delivering: I adapt and learn from my experiences

OZ Minerals - A Modern Mining Company

Unlock your potential and help us challenge the status quo, while doing the best work of your life.

We want creative and passionate people on our team, who can go beyond what's possible to make lives better.

What we do is centered around creating shared value for our stakeholders. And how we do things is what makes us unique.

We know everyone's best work takes different shapes and forms, and we are committed to empowering and harnessing this difference.

For us, development is continuous, learning is holistic, and How We Work Together is more than just a tagline.
Who are we? We are OZ Minerals, a modern mining company.

If you think you can make a difference, please apply below.
#comeworkwithus

We are an inclusive workplace and encourage applications from indigenous people and women. Once you have joined us, we are different than we were before, and better because of what you bring.

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