Controller

Archetype 4 Controller

Controllers are expected to be good at:

  • Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate manufacturing systems.
  • Working with hand operated industrial machines and power tools.
  • Adjusting knobs, levers, and physical or touch sensitive buttons in industrial devices.
  • Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.

Strategist

Archetype 8 Strategist

Most strategists should excel at:

  • Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
  • Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
  • Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
  • Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.

Other work activities related to Continuous mining machine operators

  • Operating mining machines to gathering coal and convey it to floors or shuttle cars.
  • Determining locations, boundaries, and depths of holes or channels to be cutting.
  • Repositioning machines for making additional holes or cuts.
  • Driving machines into their positions at the working sites.
  • Moving controls for starting and regulating movement of conveyors and for starting and positioning drill cutters or torches.
  • Observing and listening to equipment operation for detecting binding or stoppage of tools or other equipment malfunctions.
  • Repairing, oiling, and adjusting machines, and changing cutting teeth, using wrenches.
  • Moving levers for raising and lowering the hydraulic safety bars that are supporting roofs above machines until other workers are completing the framing.
  • Installing casings for preventing cave ins.
  • Guiding and assisting of the crews laying tracks and resetting supports and blocking.
  • Applying new technologies developed for minimizing the environmental impacts of coal mining.
  • Scraping or washing conveyors, using belt scrapers or belt washers, for minimizing dust production.