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Technicians and associate professionals · code 3121

Mining supervisors

Mining supervisors oversee mining and quarrying operations and directly supervise and coordinate the activities of miners working in underground and surface mines and quarries. Tasks include - (a) supervising and coordinating the activities of workers who extract minerals and other natural deposits from the earth, and who operate underground conveyances or heavy equipment in surface mines and quarries; (b) establishing methods to meet work schedules and recommending measures to mining managers to improve productivity; (c) working with managerial and technical personnel, other departments and contractors to resolve operational problems and coordinate activities; (d) providing reports and other information to mining managers about all aspects of mining or quarrying operations; (e) determining staffing and material needs for the mine or quarry. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Mine deputy - Mine supervisor - Mine undermanager - Quarry supervisor Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Mine manager - 1322 - Mine inspector - 3117 - Miner - 8111 - Quarrier - 8111

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 232 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • mine supervisor

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71.3
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 28.7 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 28.7 = 71.3

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

69
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 2 US jobs

41.6
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 41.1 · hand skill 42 · cramped spaces 41.6 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on 50+ · fiddly 39.4+ Hands-on, fiddly work in tight spaces

More fine handwork, and more time in cramped or awkward spots, than a typical hands-on job. That is exactly what machines find hardest: they do best in tidy, predictable places.

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

This number is probably too high

This score only looks at AI tools like chatbots. It doesn't look at robots at all — and this job rates 69 out of 100 for how hands-on it is, which is exactly where robots come in.

Have a look at the tasks below and judge for yourself. The ILO scored them low because a chatbot can't do them. Whether a machine with hands could is a different question, and we can't answer it yet.

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 40, while the average is 28.7. 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. 40

    Providing reports and other information to mining managers about all aspects of mining or quarrying operations

    Low
  2. 33

    Establishing methods to meet work schedules and recommending measures to mining managers to improve productivity

    Low
  3. 26.5

    Determining staffing and material needs for the mine or quarry.

    Low
  4. 25.5

    Working with managerial and technical personnel, other departments and contractors to resolve operational problems and coordinate activities

    Low
  5. 18.5

    Supervising and coordinating the activities of workers who extract minerals and other natural deposits from the earth, and who operate underground conveyances or heavy equipment in surface mines and quarries

    Very Low

5 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
67
AI does it for you
33

Helping wins by 34 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 3129

Compared with similar jobs

There are 82 jobs in the “Technicians and associate professionals” group, averaging 65.3. This one is above that.