Mining Tickets, Licences and Training
Which tickets, licences and courses mining employers ask for, which ones are worth paying for, and which they'll train you in.
How to Become a Maintenance Planner
Maintenance planners and schedulers make sure the right job, parts and people are ready before equipment is pulled off line. It's a common next step for tradespeople. Here's how to get into it.
5d ago
How to Become an HSE Advisor
HSE advisors help mine sites and plants keep people safe and protect the environment. There's more than one way in, with or without a degree. Here's how.
5d ago
How to Become a Boilermaker or Welder
Boilermakers and welders build and repair the steel that mines and plants run on. It's a trade you can take into almost any industry. Here's how to get an apprenticeship and move into mining.
5d ago
How to Become a Crane Operator
Crane operators lift the heaviest components on mine sites and plants, from truck engines to processing equipment. Here's how to get the right licence and the experience employers want.
5d ago
How to Become a Rigger or Dogman
Riggers and dogmen set up and direct heavy lifts on mine sites, plants and shutdowns. Here's how to get the licences and your first job on a lifting crew.
5d ago
How to Become a Mine Operator
Mine operators drive the trucks, diggers and loaders that move rock, on the surface or underground. It's one of the most common ways into mining without a degree. Here's how to land a trainee role.
5d ago
How to Become a Shotfirer
Shotfirers are licensed to blast rock so it can be mined. It's a specialised, high-responsibility job. Here's how to get on a blast crew and work towards a shotfiring licence.
5d ago
How to Become an Assistant Driller or Derrickman
Assistant drillers and derrickmen help run a drilling rig and its crew. It's the step between entry-level rig work and driller. Here's how the path works in mining and in oil and gas.
5d ago
How to Become a Driller
Drillers find new deposits and prepare rock for mining. Most start as an offsider with no experience. Here's how to get on a drill crew and work your way up.
5d ago
How to Become a Site or Offshore Electrician
Site and offshore electricians keep remote mines, LNG plants and platforms running. Here's how to go from an electrical apprenticeship to industrial, remote and offshore work.
5d ago
How to Become an Instrumentation and Controls Technician
Instrumentation and controls technicians keep processing plants measured, controlled and safe. Here's how the E&I apprenticeship works and where it leads.
5d ago
How to Become a High Voltage Electrician
HV electricians keep the power on at mines and processing plants, from substations to electric-drive haul trucks. Here's how to go from an electrical apprenticeship to high voltage work.
5d ago
How to Become a Heavy Diesel Fitter
Heavy diesel fitters keep haul trucks, diggers and drills running. It's one of the most in-demand trades in mining. Here's how to get an apprenticeship and move onto a mine site.
5d ago
How to Become a Mine Surveyor
Mine surveyors measure and map the mine so everything gets dug and built in the right place. Here's how to start as a survey assistant or graduate, and where it can lead.
5d ago
Sandvik Is Sending Engineers Around the World to Learn Mining. Here's What It Means for Your Career
Sandvik's new two-year program takes engineers to nine universities and a dozen mines. Here's what it says about where mining careers are heading, and what you can do about it without going back to uni.
10d ago
AI Won’t Replace Mining Workers, But Mining Workers Who Understand AI Could Have an Advantage
AI is changing Australian mining jobs rather than simply eliminating them. Here is what workers should learn to stay competitive.
17d ago
200 Mining Jobs in Limbo: What FIFO Workers Need to Know When a Contractor Falls Out With a Mine Owner
About 200 Buzzard mine workers face uncertainty after a dispute between Central Iron and Agile Mining Services. Here is what FIFO workers should know.
17d ago
1,900 Applications for 30 Mining Jobs: How Do You Stand Out When Everyone Wants Into Mining?
New Acland's hiring drive drew 1,900 applications for 30 jobs. Here's what actually gets entry-level mining candidates picked.
18d ago
Mining's Next Big Job Boom Could Be in Automation: Here's What Workers Need to Know
Automation isn't just cutting mining jobs, it's creating new ones. Here's which roles are growing and which skills matter now.
18d ago
Trump's Tariffs Are Reshaping Mining. What Could It Mean for Your Career?
The US trade war is doing more than moving commodity prices. It is changing where mines are built, where minerals are processed and which skills could be in demand over the next decade.
27d ago
The skills WA's resources sector will need next and why the shortage isn't going away
What's changing is the kind of demand. As operating models become more automated, digital and technically complex, the report says the skills needed to support resource development "will continue to evolve."
34d ago
Four pathways into WA's resources sector, and how you could take one of them
Big numbers like $8.1 trillion and 158,000 jobs a year are hard to picture. So instead of dwelling on the modelling in CME's Unearthing Potential report, this piece looks at the human side of it.
34d ago
The Skills That Will Matter Most in Mining Over the Next 10 Years
Technology will change. Equipment will change. Commodities will rise and fall. Companies will come and go. But certain skills will continue to be valuable across sites, employers, and market cycles.
39d ago
Mining Jobs for Graduates: Careers You Probably Didn’t Know Existed
Modern mining companies employ people across engineering, science, technology, environment, business, health and safety, logistics, and more.
39d ago
Your Mining Skills Can Take You Around the World
Mining is a global industry, and mines everywhere need people who can keep them running safely and efficiently.
39d ago
How to Get Into Mining With No Experience
Job posts can make the industry look impossible to break into, with long lists of site experience, tickets, licences, and qualifications. But there are genuine entry points.
39d ago
Heading into 2027 is Mining Still a Good Career?
Mining has always evolved with technology, markets, and policy. What’s being mined changes. The equipment changes. The operating models change. The skills employers pay for change.
39d ago
Looking for FIFO work? Beware of anyone asking you to pay for a job
If you're trying to break into FIFO mining, oil and gas, or other remote-site work, you've probably seen the social media accounts promising that a FIFO career is just a few clicks away.
40d ago
White Card and Site Inductions: What You Need Before Your First Day
A white card, or its local equivalent depending on where you are, is general construction industry safety induction training, not anything mining-specific.
45d ago
The Resources Jobs That Could Offer Long-Term Career Growth
The resources industry can have plenty of career pathways, but they don't always happen automatically.
67d ago
The Electrification of Mining: What It Could Mean for Resources Workers
As companies look for ways to reduce emissions and improve energy efficiency, electrification becomes an increasingly attractive option.
67d ago
Mining Equipment Is Getting Smarter: How Technology Is Changing the FIFO Job
Today's mine sites are increasingly filled with autonomous trucks, remote-operated equipment, advanced sensors, collision avoidance systems and digital monitoring technology.
67d ago
Building Your Mining Resume: Tickets, Trade Certs and What Employers Actually Look For
What actually gets a mining resume noticed, from tickets and certifications to site and commodity experience, and how to lay it out so employers can scan it fast.
73d ago