mining equipment mechanic

Job Zone

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5

Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed

Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.

Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.

Occupational interest profile

RCIRealistic · Conventional · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order

• R Realistic7.00
• C Conventional4.35
• I Investigative3.54
• A Artistic1.00
• S Social1.00
• E Enterprising1.00

RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.

Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines (49-3042.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.

Typically associated skills

Essential (11)

ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.

• communicate mine equipment information
• conduct inter-shift communication
• install mining machinery
• interpret mechanical mine machinery manuals
• maintain mine machinery
• maintain records of mining operations
• mechanics
• report mine machinery repairs
• test mine equipment
• train operators in using mine machinery
• troubleshoot