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Managers · code 1322

Mining managers

Mining managers plan, direct and coordinate the production activities of mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction operations, either as the manager of a department or as the general manager of an enterprise or organization that does not have a hierarchy of managers. Tasks include - (a) conferring with other managers to set production quotas, plan extraction sites and develop policies for the removal of raw materials; (b) evaluating efficiency of production sites to determine adequacy of personnel, equipment and technologies used, and make changes to work schedules or equipment when necessary; (c) planning details of production activities in terms of output quality and quantity, cost, time available and labour requirements; (d) controlling the operation of plant and quality procedures through planning of maintenance, designation of operating hours and supply of equipment; (e) establishing and managing budgets, monitoring production output and costs, and adjusting processes and resources to minimize costs; (f) overseeing the acquisition and installation of new plant and equipment; (g) controlling the preparation of production records and reports; (h) coordinating the implementation of health and safety requirements; (i) researching and implementing regulatory and statutory requirements affecting mineral extraction operations and the environment; (j) overseeing the selection, training and performance of staff. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Mine manager - Production manager (mine) - Production manager (oil and gas extraction) - Production manager (quarry) - Quarry manager Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Mine deputy - 3121 - Mine supervisor - 3121 - Mine under-manager - 3121 - Quarry supervisor - 3121

A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 271 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • mine manager
  • quarry manager

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

65.3
Holds up
against AI Minimal Exposure

AI could take on 34.7 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 34.7 = 65.3

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

30.9
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 10 US jobs , so treat it as rough

16
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 19.6 · hand skill 15.8 · cramped spaces 12.7 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 30.9 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 54.8, while the average is 34.7. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 54.8

    Controlling the preparation of production records and reports

    Medium
  2. 46.5

    Establishing and managing budgets, monitoring production output and costs, and adjusting processes and resources to minimize costs

    Low
  3. 43.5

    Planning details of production activities in terms of output quality and quantity, cost, time available and labour requirements

    Low
  4. 35.5

    Conferring with other managers to set production quotas, plan extraction sites and develop policies for the removal of raw materials

    Low
  5. 33.5

    Evaluating efficiency of production sites to determine adequacy of personnel, equipment and technologies used, and make changes to work schedule or equipment when necessary

    Low
  6. 32

    Researching and implementing regulatory and statutory requirements affecting mineral extraction operations and the environment

    Low
  7. 32

    Overseeing the selection, training and performance of staff.

    Low
  8. 26

    Controlling the operation of plant and quality procedures through planning of maintenance, designation of operating hours and supply of equipment

    Low
  9. 25.6

    Coordinating the implementation of health and safety requirements

    Low
  10. 18

    Overseeing the acquisition and installation of new plant and equipment

    Very Low

10 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

One Australian job matches this one closely, so this is about as reliable as it gets here.

AI helps you
72
AI does it for you
42

Helping wins by 30 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 1335

Compared with similar jobs

There are 30 jobs in the “Managers” group, averaging 63.8. This one is above that.