African Underground Mining Services (AUMS) is an international leader in mechanised hard rock underground mining. AUMS is part of Perenti (Formerly the Ausdrill Group), an ASX 200 company and Australia’s second largest integrated mining services provider. We are a global leader in hard rock underground mining; together with Barminco we operate across Africa in Tanzania, Ghana, Botswana and Burkina Faso. Other international operations are in Australia and Canada. We are driven by the continued success at our operations and exceeding our client’s expectations – both in terms of safety and performance.

The collective talent and expertise of our workforce is the key to our success are seeking talented people to join our business. We seek to build teams who are loyal and committed to our company values and dedicated to helping our clients.

In return, we provide state of the art facilities, equipment and technology. We look forward to receiving your application for the following positions.

Grader Operator

Geita Gold Mine, Geita

Position purpose:

The Grader Operator will carry out grading of varying surfaces, both underground and surface, and will perform mining tasks as directed by the Underground Supervisor and trainer.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Complies with all HS&E policies, procedures and instructions. This includes the correct use of safety devices and protective equipment, prompt reporting of any hazardous situations, which they cannot themselves correct, making the necessary changes to eliminate or control the hazard and reporting immediately any accident or injury which arises in the course of their work.
• Complies with all company policies and procedures that are displayed and amended from time to time.
• Takes reasonable care for their own safety and that of other persons who may be affected by their acts.
• Performs pre-start checks and SWICs.
• Must Work to minimise equipment downtime and maximise productivity.
• Maintains a high standard of housekeeping.
• Continual grading of development areas to provide a good operating surface for other machinery in the mine.
• Ensure that all spillage is cleaned up and graded to an area where an Underground loader can remove it.
• Maintaining of building roads underground including cleaning up drives to prevent tyre damage.

Essential Requirements:

• 2 plus years of underground mining experience is desirable.
• Knowledge and experience in operating underground grader
• Willingness to assist in other areas trained in
• First Aid Certificate.
• Must have valid Tanzanian Driver’s License.
• Completed secondary school.
• Reading and Writing Skills

If you have the necessary skills, drive and experience to be an asset to AUMS Operations Team, we welcome your interest and encourage you to apply. Only applications with a current Resume attached will be considered for employment.