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Shot Firer resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what shot firers 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 shot firers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Shot Firer with hands-on experience loading, priming and firing explosive charges in open cut and underground operations, working from blast plans and site procedures under a current state shotfirer licence. Used to remote rosters, rotating crews and the record keeping that sits behind every blast. Known for disciplined exclusion zone control and for clearing misfires without cutting corners.
Key skills
- Blast plan interpretation and drill hole marking
- Loading, priming and stemming to design
- Detonator connection and firing circuit testing
- Electronic detonator systems operation
- Misfire inspection and safe re-firing
- Exclusion zone and blast guard control
- Explosives magazine storage and stock records
- Worksite safety management and pre-start checks
- Integrated tool carrier and shotfiring vehicle operation
- Orica SHOTPlus and Maptek BlastLogic
- Two-way radio communication across active benches
- Blast hole sampling and condition checks
- JSA, SWMS and blast management plan compliance
Experience: example bullet points
- Loaded and primed full production patterns across multiple benches per shift, working from drill plans and marking holes to match the designed layout.
- Connected detonators and firing circuits and ran continuity checks before every firing, picking up wiring faults before they turned into misfires.
- Fired production and secondary blasts and reported fragmentation, overbreak and brow damage back to the drill and blast engineer so the next design could be adjusted.
- Inspected and cleared misfires under site procedure, securing and re-checking the exclusion zone before any re-firing was authorised.
- Operated shotfiring vehicles and integrated tool carriers to move explosives, stemming and equipment around the pattern on remote sites.
- Maintained magazine records, explosives usage logs and blast documentation, keeping the site ready for regulator inspections and stock reconciliations.
Education
Certificate III in Surface Extraction Operations or Certificate III in Underground Metalliferous Mining, including the shotfiring units of competency, plus a current state or territory shotfirer licence; many shot firers come from drilling, mining or civil construction backgrounds and complete the units on site.
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.
- shotfirer licence
- shotfiring operations
- state explosives regulator
- Explosives Act
- Security Sensitive Ammonium Nitrate
- SSAN security clearance
- AS 2187.2
- blast management plan
- explosives magazine
- dangerous goods storage and handling
- exclusion zone
- misfire procedure
- blast guard
- pre-start checks
- SWMS
- FIFO roster
- open cut mining
- underground metalliferous mining
- Orica SHOTPlus
- Maptek BlastLogic
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.