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Mining Labourer resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what mining labourers actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most mining labourers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Mining labourer with experience supporting extraction and plant crews across surface and underground operations. Skilled in spotting heavy machinery, handling drill rods and consumables, and keeping site services and equipment clean and fuelled. Comfortable with FIFO and DIDO rosters, site inductions and pre-start checks.
Key skills
- Worksite safety management, including JSAs, Take 5s and SWMS
- Spotting trucks, loaders and other heavy plant during reversing and tipping
- Digging and shovelling ore, rock and spillage
- Cleaning, refuelling and topping up fluids on machinery
- Installing and maintaining pumps, pipes and ventilation
- Hand and power tool work, including angle grinders and high-pressure water cleaners
- Two-way radio communication and handheld gas detector use
- Forklift operation and driving/transport duties
- Physical stamina and dexterity for remote site work
Experience: example bullet points
- Spotted trucks and loaders during reversing and tipping, keeping the tip head clear and reducing waiting time for haul crews.
- Dug and shovelled spillage around conveyors and load-out areas, returning walkways to full width before shift handover.
- Refuelled and topped up fluids on a fleet of site vehicles, logging each service so the workshop could track use.
- Installed and maintained pumps, pipes and ventilation runs, completing repairs that kept dewatering moving during wet weather.
- Handled drill rods and consumables for the drill crew, staging them at the hole so the offsider could load without delays.
- Cleaned plant and grounds with high-pressure water cleaners, removing built-up mud from tracks and access stairs.
Education
Certificate II or III in Mining Operations, or equivalent on-the-job training once site inductions and medicals are cleared.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- Standard 11
- Coal Board Medical
- HR licence
- White Card
- Working at Heights
- Confined Space
- gas detection
- two-way radio
- mine site induction
- pre-start checks
- job safety analysis (JSA)
- Take 5
- SWMS
- high-pressure water cleaner
- angle grinder
- forklift licence
- dogging
- rigging
- spotting
- spillage
- FIFO
- DIDO
- surface mining
- underground mining
- plant operator
- driller's offsider
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.