With over a decade of experience in the Mining Industry around Australia, the mission of the Mining area at Big Col's Recruitment is to serve as a provider of value-for-money services, we are committed to matching quality companies with only the most skilled and talented candidates, the first time, and every time, meeting the needs of the mining industry both in Australia and overseas markets. We are committed in helping organisations to embrace that enhance productivity at an affordable cost.

Our Mining Strategy

• The provision of Mining is centralised in Big Col's Recruitment within the Mining and Resource Department, and led by (Colin McDonald) the Managing Director of Big Col's Recruitment.
• Our vision for the Mining and Resource service provides professional support to the Australian and International mining industries through their accountability for the achievement of business outcomes in partnership with their business requirements. Big Col's Recruitment will work with business partners to understand their needs and requirements, manage the delivery of staff on-time and for a low budget.

Our Work Environment, Values & Culture

The Big Col's Recruitment is renowned for providing its staff with interesting and challenging work, a friendly and diverse culture, and superior job benefits. Working in the Mining and Resource sector offers all of this and more: 

• We promote a culture of respect, openness, and transparency 
• We believe that staff's technical expertise needs to be complemented by equally strong interpersonal, communication and other non-technical skills
• We believe that our staff should be well-rounded with skills that enable them to add value in multiple areas of the Mining and Resource sector.
• We believe in maturing our processes and improving performance through active support of communities of practice
• We believe in measuring our performance in terms of outcomes, outputs and user satisfaction, and transparently reporting on performance to stakeholders across Big Col's Recruitment

Our Computing Environment

The Mining and Resource environment at the Big Col's Recruitment is modern, robust and sophisticated. Key features of the environment include:

• A broad and diverse portfolio of applications supporting every facet of Big Col's Recruitment operations.  These include office productivity tools, knowledge management and collaboration systems, economic analysis and modelling tools, warehouses for economic and administrative data, publishing and dissemination systems, and applications to support finance, and human resources operations.

Our Key Mining and Resource initiatives

• Building the Big Col's Recruitment's capacity to communicate and collaborate, and to manage, find, and share our information.
• Facilitating collaboration among Big Col's Recruitment staff and with stakeholders around the Australia
• Modernising human resource and administrative expenditure processes
• Streamlining the administration and costing of Big Col's Recruitment technical assistance
• Maintaining a modern, cost-effective, secure, and robust environment

Who are we looking for?

Operators

Operators are required to operate fixed plant machinery and a host of mobile equipment across our underground and open pit operations.

Trades

Electrical and mechanical trades work on preventative and adhoc maintenance and breakdown repair on a range of fixed plant and mobile fleet equipment.

Professional and Specialist roles

Mining engineers plan and direct the various engineering aspects of extracting minerals from the earth. They prepare initial plans for the type, size, location and construction of open pit or underground mines.

Metallurgists work at mine sites in concentrators and metal recovery operations, in smelters, metal refineries, foundries, and research and development laboratories.

Environmental engineers are concerned with assessing and managing the effects of human and other activity on the natural and built environment.

Geoscientists study the nature, composition and structure of the earth to increase scientific knowledge, locate materials and minerals, and advise on the extraction of minerals, environmental protection and rehabilitation of land after mining.

Geological engineers identify and solve problems involving soil, rock and groundwater, and design structures in and below the ground, using the principles of earth science and engineering.

Health and safety professionals develop and coordinate safety and health systems and strategy in an organisation, identify hazards and assess risks to safety and health, put appropriate safety controls in place, and provide advice on accident prevention and occupational health to management and employees.

Mechanical engineers apply engineering principles in the employment of energy, machinery, equipment and materials. They design machines and mechanical installations and evaluate installed machinery, processes and products.

Electrical engineers apply scientific and engineering principles in the research, design, manufacture, operation and maintenance of electrical and electronic equipment, machine systems and components.

Surveyors assemble and assess land and geographic information which is used for planning and regulation of the land, the sea and related structures. Mine Surveyors measures underground and open-cut mine workings in full detail.

Community liaison/relations professionals encourage and assist communities to engage and deal with industry, to assess their requirements and liaise with industry and governments to establish harmonious and productive relationships.

Human resource management is a strategic approach to managing people and workplace culture, encouraging employees to contribute effectively and productively to overall company direction and accomplishment of the organisation's goals and objectives.

Finance professionals analyse, report and give advice on the financial dealings of organisations and individuals, and associated compliance requirements.

Technology professionals promote and enable the transfer and commercialisation of technologies and implement various and relevant programs and projects across the business.