Operate machinery such as longwall shears, plows, and cutting machines to cut or channel along the face or seams of coal mines, stone quarries, or other mining surfaces to facilitate blasting, separating, or removing minerals or materials from mines or from the Earth's surface. Includes shale planers.
- Miner Operator
- Longwall Shearer Operator
- Shear Operator
- Coal Miner
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- Bore Miner Operator
- Shearer Operator
- Underground Heavy Equipment Operator
- Underground Miner
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- Advance plow blades through coal strata by remote control, according to electronic or radio signals from the tailer.
- Charge and set off explosives in blasting holes.
- Cut and move shale from open pits.
- Cut entries between rooms and haulage-ways.
- Cut slots along working faces of coal, salt, or other non-metal deposits in order to facilitate blasting, by moving levers to start the machine and to control the vertical reciprocating drills.
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- Advance plow blades through coal strata by remote control, according to electronic or radio signals from the tailer.
- Charge and set off explosives in blasting holes.
- Cut and move shale from open pits.
- Cut entries between rooms and haulage-ways.
- Cut slots along working faces of coal, salt, or other non-metal deposits in order to facilitate blasting, by moving levers to start the machine and to control the vertical reciprocating drills.
- Determine locations, boundaries, and depths of holes or channels to be cut.
- Drive mobile, truck-mounted, or track-mounted drilling or cutting machine in mines and quarries or on construction sites.
- Free jams in planer hoppers, using metal pinch bars.
- Guide and assist crews in laying track for machines and resetting planer rails, supports, and blocking, using jacks, shovels, sledges, picks, and pinch bars.
- Monitor movement of shale along conveyors from hoppers to trucks or railcars.
- Move controls to start and position drill cutters or torches, and to advance tools into mines or quarry faces in order to complete horizontal or vertical cuts.
- Move planer levers to control and adjust the movement of equipment, the speed, height, and depth of cuts, and to rotate swivel cutting booms.
- Observe indicator lights and gauges, and listen to machine operation in order to detect binding or stoppage of tools or other equipment problems.
- Position jacks, timbers, or roof supports, and install casings, in order to prevent cave-ins.
- Press buttons to activate conveyor belts, and push or pull chain handles to regulate conveyor movement so that material can be moved or loaded into dinkey cars or dump trucks.
- Remove debris such as loose shale from channels and planer travel areas.
- Replace worn or broken tools and machine bits and parts, using wrenches, pry bars, and other hand tools, and lubricate machines, using grease guns.
- Reposition machines and move controls in order to make additional holes or cuts.
- Signal crewmembers to adjust the speed of equipment to the rate of installation of roof supports, and to adjust the speed of conveyors to the volume of coal.
- Signal that machine plow blades are properly positioned, using electronic buzzers or two-way radios.
- Signal truck drivers to position their vehicles for receiving shale from planer hoppers.
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- assemble detonation units for construction or extraction work
- build or repair structures in construction, repair, or manufacturing setting
- charge blasting holes with explosives
- determine amount or kind of explosive needed to complete job
- determine locations, angles, and depths of blast holes
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- assemble detonation units for construction or extraction work
- build or repair structures in construction, repair, or manufacturing setting
- charge blasting holes with explosives
- determine amount or kind of explosive needed to complete job
- determine locations, angles, and depths of blast holes
- detonate blasting charges for construction or extraction work
- drill blasting holes
- maintain or repair mining machinery/equipment
- monitor production machinery/equipment operation to detect problems
- move or fit heavy objects
- operate material moving, loading, or unloading equipment
- operate mining equipment or machinery
- read technical drawings
- use hand or power tools
- use measuring devices in construction or extraction work
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- Drilling-Machine Operator
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- Channeling-Machine Runner
- Cutter Operator
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- Flame Channeler
- Long-Wall Shear Operator
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- Channeling-Machine Runner
- Cutter Operator
- Driller, Machine
- Drilling-Machine Operator
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- Flame Channeler
- Long-Wall Shear Operator
- Long-Wall-Mining-Machine Tender
- Shale Planer Operator
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