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Automation Squad

Role

AI for Underground Mining Machine Operators

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Operate underground loading or moving machine to load or move coal, ore, or rock using shuttle or mine car or conveyors. Equipment may include power shovels, hoisting engines equipped with cable-drawn scraper or scoop, or machines equipped with gathering arms and conveyor.

Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining · O*NET 47-5044.00 · Job Zone 2 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

7 of 9tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

18 matched to the tools loading and moving machine operators, underground mining use. Showing 18.

  • Microsoft Outlook

    MCP server

    Microsoft Outlook is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services.

    Microsoft Outlook

  • Microsoft Excel

    MCP server

    Microsoft's Excel is a spreadsheet application used by millions of users across the world. It is part of the Office ecosystem and is considered the industry standard for spreadsheets. Only files on OneDrive for Business (available with Office 365 and Sharepoint server) are su

    Microsoft Excel

  • Office Powerpoint

    MCP server

  • Powerpoint

    MCP server

  • WebWork Time Tracker

    App

    Make (make.com)

  • Daily Time Tracking

    App

  • DeskTime

    MCP server

    DeskTime is automated time tracking software.

    DeskTime

  • Excel

    Skill

  • Excel

    MCP server

  • Gestioo

    MCP server

    Software for the management of corrective/preventive maintenance workshops.

    Gestioo

  • Maintenance Care

    MCP server

    Maintenance Care is a CMMS software for work orders, preventive maintenance and asset management.

    Maintenance Care

  • Microsoft

    MCP server

  • Microsoft 365 Excel

    App

    Make (make.com)

  • Microsoft Outlook

    App

  • OfficeTimer

    MCP server

    OfficeTimer is an online office management software that helps office owners to track their employees timesheet, attendance, leave and payroll systems.

    OfficeTimer

  • Spreadsheet

    Skill

  • Spreadsheetcom

    App

  • TimeTac

    App

    TimeTac is a cloud-based time tracking software designed to help businesses record absences and monitor employees’ working hours easily. The software can be used across different devices, such as smartphones, computers, tablets, or clocking in machines.

The tools this job actually uses

9 documented for this occupation. Showing 9, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Outlookhot
  • Microsoft PowerPointhot
  • Microsoft Windowshot
  • Automated systems software
  • Inventory management systems
  • Maintenance management software
  • Mine maintenance software
  • Work time accounting software

What this job involves

25 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 24.

  1. Handle high voltage sources and hang electrical cables.
  2. Drive loaded shuttle cars to ramps and move controls to discharge loads into mine cars or onto conveyors.
  3. Pry off loose material from roofs and move it into the paths of machines, using crowbars.
  4. Move trailing electrical cables clear of obstructions, using rubber safety gloves.
  5. Stop gathering arms when cars are full.
  6. Control conveyors that run the entire length of shuttle cars to distribute loads as loading progresses.
  7. Observe hand signals, grade stakes, or other markings when operating machines.
  8. Examine roadway and clear obstructions from the path of travel.
  9. Drive machines into piles of material blasted from working faces.
  10. Operate levers to move conveyor booms or shovels so that mine contents such as coal, rock, and ore can be placed into cars or onto conveyors.
  11. Move mine cars into position for loading and unloading, using pinchbars inserted under car wheels to position cars under loading spouts.
  12. Clean, fuel, service, and perform safety checks on all equipment, and repair and replace parts as necessary.
  13. Advance machines to gather material and convey it into cars.
  14. Clean hoppers, and clean spillage from tracks, walks, driveways, and conveyor decking.
  15. Signal workers to move loaded cars.
  16. Oil, lubricate, and adjust conveyors, crushers, and other equipment, using hand tools and lubricating equipment.
  17. Guide and stop cars by switching, applying brakes, or placing scotches, or wooden wedges, between wheels and rails.
  18. Observe and record car numbers, carriers, customers, tonnages, and grades and conditions of material.
  19. Read written instructions or confer with supervisors about schedules and materials to be moved.
  20. Monitor loading processes to ensure that materials are loaded according to specifications.
  21. Maintain records of materials moved.
  22. Direct other workers to move stakes, place blocks, position anchors or cables, or move materials.
  23. Measure, weigh, or verify levels of rock, gravel, or other excavated material to prevent equipment overloads.
  24. Replace hydraulic hoses, headlight bulbs, and gathering-arm teeth.
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