• Assessing the feasibility of new sites.
  
• Managing budgets and costing and organizing supplies.
• Training and supervising staff.
• Liaising with and advising managerial and technical staff (geologists, engineers etc.)
• Ascertaining extraction risks.
• Using specialist computer applications to maximise planning and production.
• Monitoring and evaluating underground performance.
• Managing construction projects (eg to reclaim sites, fill in disused shafts etc).
• Ensuring that operations and equipment comply with health and safety requirements.
• Planning and implementing extraction systems.

Note: Candidates should have valid driving license