About the position
Our client, a leading company in the underground mining equipment industry, currently seeks to hire an Operator Trainer to join their team based in Boksburg, Johannesburg.
Application closing date: Thursday, 5 March 2026
Minimum Requirements:
- Matric
- Completed Assessors Training certificate
- Must have Competent B certification (MQA or relevant underground mining certification)
- Valid driver's license
- Minimum of 5 years' trackless mining operator experience
- Strong experience on Load Haul Dump (LHD) and Dump Truck experience
- Fluent in English
- Willingness to travel and visit sites for the required training
- Medically fit to work underground
Skills:
- Strong communication, presentation, and administrative skills
- Can convey training to a variety of people on various skill levels
- Self-motivated, disciplined, and able to work under pressure
- Have excellent time management skills
- Have attention to detail
- Be able to keep to strict deadlines
Main duties will include, but are not limited to:
Training Delivery:
- Ensure operators are competent and certified before machine operation.
- Deliver training suitable for varying skill levels.
Training Material:
- Develop and maintain up-to-date operator training documentation.
- Will be responsible for creating training material for new machines and engage with technical team and production to ensure training material aligns to machine layout, software, and function.
- Review and revise material following machine or specification changes.
- Will also be responsible for keeping the training material to the latest machine specification, meaning constant engagement with the relevant technical and production teams.
- Unless customer requests training on their old machines on site, the latest training material must be used.
- Will need to establish training opportunities at customers for recertification of operators and technical training requirements as well as prepare training proposals.
- Will be required to assist with providing technical training, as and where needed, to ensure the teams keep to their schedule.
Assessment & Certification:
- Will be responsible for assessing the operators on the customer's site.
- This assessment will provide the customer with feedback if more or complete retraining is needed.
- The operator assessment will also be part of the practical test that operators go through before they are certified.
- From time to time, the operator will need to do an assessment on in-house employees to ensure operation of machines is correct.
- Conduct practical and theoretical assessments.
- Issue competency licenses and attendance certificates.
- Maintain training registers and records.
- Will issue competency licenses, attendance certificates and record all training records on training register, follow up on quotes and orders.
- Ad hoc Training Academy requirements.
Customer Care:
- Always maintain professional conduct and presentation.
- Communicate training outcomes and recommendations clearly to customers.
Suitable candidates can reply to this ad or send their CV directly to [Email Address Removed] for immediate consideration.
Desired Skills:
- trainer
- technical trainer
- operator
- load haul dump
- dump truck
- underground
- mining
- competent B
- MQA
- Mining qualification authority
Desired Work Experience:
Desired Qualification Level: