Mine Cutting and Channeling Machine Operators

Tasks Include:

• Position jacks, timbers, or roof supports, and install casings, to prevent cave-ins.
• Reposition machines and move controls to make additional holes or cuts.
• Cut entries between rooms and haulage ways.
• Observe indicator lights and gauges, and listen to machine operation to detect binding or stoppage of tools or other equipment problems.
• Replace worn or broken tools and machine bits and parts, using wrenches, pry bars, and other hand tools, and lubricate machines, using grease guns.
• Press buttons to activate conveyor belts, and push or pull chain handles to regulate conveyor movement so that material can be moved or loaded into dinkey cars or dump trucks.