Partner wants to go work in the mines.

[Redhead]

It's in WA with Richards Mining Services. He goes in July, I can give you an update after he comes back if you like?

[sophiiac]

It's in WA with Richards Mining Services. He goes in July, I can give you an update after he comes back if you like?

[Redhead]

We wouldn't move, at least not right away.
DH has a daugher who goes to school here & with me expecting our first together, that would be too big a move at this time.

[sophiiac]

We wouldn't move, at least not right away.
DH has a daugher who goes to school here & with me expecting our first together, that would be too big a move at this time.

[Just Me]

My DH manages a recruiting company and some of the positions he fills are for mines. He said at the moment it is best to apply directly to the mines at the moment. Rio Tinto, BHP, MMG, Ernest Henry and Mt Isa Mines are all apparently opening new mines or expanding so DH reckons they might be your best bet. He also said not to do a course because every mine has different course expectations and if you do one course it might not help you out with mines that have the positions going though lots of recruitment companies will tell you that you need to do a course. DH just attended the mining expo here so has just had three days of meeting with them all.

Depending on the mine depends on the arrangement as far as FIFO or live in. My SIL's brother works for a mine and they fly him anywhere in Australia at the end of each stint so he just chooses which family member he wants to stay with or where he wants to holiday and they fly him there. He doesn't have a family or a home. He just floats on his week off.

I think once you have mine experience, it is easier to move between mines - I have other friends who lived at Weipa for a while but wanted to move back here and had no trouble once they had experience moving to a different mine. They are a marriage couple and she is a geologist and he is an engineer so they both have transferred a couple of times together with no issues. I think it is hard enough to get in that it might be difficult to be picky but once he's in and has a bit of experience, it might be easier to choose.

Good luck

[sophiiac]

My DH manages a recruiting company and some of the positions he fills are for mines. He said at the moment it is best to apply directly to the mines at the moment. Rio Tinto, BHP, MMG, Ernest Henry and Mt Isa Mines are all apparently opening new mines or expanding so DH reckons they might be your best bet.

[Just Me]

DH said through their websites.

DH said he is currently placing for one of the mines and wants to know does he have a trade as well or just a HR licence?