Really interesting video and great to hear that your services help people get in the door and prep for a job in mining. On the driverless front, I was under the impression that Rio were offering an 8&6 at the OC for autonomous operators for around 12OK. You are right about autonomous growing; it is not just the drivers that are no longer needed it is the support staff to support them on site and the camps that go also. From my experience, Maintenace and Tyre fitting are good paths to go, they will always be required to keep the gear going.
@@SmashingBricksAU hi everybody that I talk to, that calls me about these driverless trucks and the traineeships associated with them. For all the big iron ore companie they all say the same thing, starting salaries less than $80,000 a year. And if you're trying to make over $100k, you'd have to move into a supervisory role or be with them for an extended period of time to get the mandatory pay increases that people get every year Working as a tire fitter or as a fitter can be a good way to go. Undergrounds also a good way to go because they're not going to be able to send it driverless anytime soon because of the exclusion zones The biggest problems that you've got with the tire fitting rolls is what they've done with the shutdown work. They've created training centres to put people through the training that they need to go and do shutdown work and thats lowered the price significantly that you can get working in those jobs. Unfortunately, I think the same thing will happen to tire fitters in the future to try and just get their labour costs down. Not something that I agree with, but that's the way mining works Hope that information helps
@@MethewSmeth you need to be the first one down the hole to get a load and the last one getting a load out at the end of the day People tell you that they don't pay attention to how many loads the truckies get, but I can tell you for a fact that all the shift bosses and the foremans know exactly who is getting their loads up for the day and who isn't, who's the first one down there, who's spending extra time in the crib room. It all comes into it. You just need to show them that you're into working and you're going to work hard. And the other thing that happens is that you'll get cycled through service crew (normally when your truck's in for a service) and that's the good thing about having done the training, it gives you knowledge about service crew to start with. So you can be helpful right from the very start. If you can be helpful right from the very start, that's how you get asked to go back and help them again. And that's your way that people get pushed up onto service crew quickly I hope that answers your question
@@jamesaustralian9829 if you educate yourself to how the mine works then you've got something to offer them The experience that they're asking for, you can't get anywhere else but on a mine site through the training that they provide or the training we provide, it is the only non-employer training in the country that actually teaches you the skills and the knowledge that the employers want Teaching you how to drive the truck only takes a couple of weeks. Nobody fails at that, what everybody struggles with is learning enough about how it all works so they can be left alone to get on with it by themselves The longer you need somebody in there with you, the more they ramp up the pressure and the more people they go through. It's been like that the whole 30 years of my mining career Hope that information helps. There are lots of jobs out there that people have got that have used the training that are not foreigners or diversity hires, just normal Australians looking for a better life and a better job Hope that information helps
Really interesting video and great to hear that your services help people get in the door and prep for a job in mining.
On the driverless front, I was under the impression that Rio were offering an 8&6 at the OC for autonomous operators for around 12OK. You are right about autonomous growing; it is not just the drivers that are no longer needed it is the support staff to support them on site and the camps that go also.
From my experience, Maintenace and Tyre fitting are good paths to go, they will always be required to keep the gear going.
@@SmashingBricksAU hi everybody that I talk to, that calls me about these driverless trucks and the traineeships associated with them. For all the big iron ore companie they all say the same thing, starting salaries less than $80,000 a year. And if you're trying to make over $100k, you'd have to move into a supervisory role or be with them for an extended period of time to get the mandatory pay increases that people get every year
Working as a tire fitter or as a fitter can be a good way to go. Undergrounds also a good way to go because they're not going to be able to send it driverless anytime soon because of the exclusion zones
The biggest problems that you've got with the tire fitting rolls is what they've done with the shutdown work. They've created training centres to put people through the training that they need to go and do shutdown work and thats lowered the price significantly that you can get working in those jobs. Unfortunately, I think the same thing will happen to tire fitters in the future to try and just get their labour costs down. Not something that I agree with, but that's the way mining works
Hope that information helps
How do you play the game to get off the truck asap into nipper etc.
@@MethewSmeth you need to be the first one down the hole to get a load and the last one getting a load out at the end of the day
People tell you that they don't pay attention to how many loads the truckies get, but I can tell you for a fact that all the shift bosses and the foremans know exactly who is getting their loads up for the day and who isn't, who's the first one down there, who's spending extra time in the crib room. It all comes into it. You just need to show them that you're into working and you're going to work hard. And the other thing that happens is that you'll get cycled through service crew (normally when your truck's in for a service) and that's the good thing about having done the training, it gives you knowledge about service crew to start with. So you can be helpful right from the very start. If you can be helpful right from the very start, that's how you get asked to go back and help them again. And that's your way that people get pushed up onto service crew quickly
I hope that answers your question
Lesson 1 - unless your a foreigner or a diversity hire, don't bother applying no matter how long your list of skills and experience
@@jamesaustralian9829 if you educate yourself to how the mine works then you've got something to offer them
The experience that they're asking for, you can't get anywhere else but on a mine site through the training that they provide or the training we provide, it is the only non-employer training in the country that actually teaches you the skills and the knowledge that the employers want
Teaching you how to drive the truck only takes a couple of weeks. Nobody fails at that, what everybody struggles with is learning enough about how it all works so they can be left alone to get on with it by themselves
The longer you need somebody in there with you, the more they ramp up the pressure and the more people they go through. It's been like that the whole 30 years of my mining career
Hope that information helps. There are lots of jobs out there that people have got that have used the training that are not foreigners or diversity hires, just normal Australians looking for a better life and a better job
Hope that information helps