Operator Explosives Truck

**Overview**:
To load holes with explosive products utilising a mixer-placer truck, according to BME standards. Responsible for truck inspection and maintenance

**Role impacts include the following**:

- Vehicle safety
- General maintenance and house keeping
- Quality control

**Qualifications**:

- Grade 12/ Matric
- EC 1 Licence
- Dangerous Goods and Passengers permit (DGP)

**Job Related Skills**:

- Numerical skills
- Attention to detail
- Strong communication/interpersonal skills
- Report-writing abilities

**Experience**:

- 3 years Truck Driving experience (preferably in a Mining environment)
- 5 years’ experience in driving Heavy Duty Vehicles (EC1)

**Duties**:

- Conducting the prescribed pre-use inspections and completing the required checklist prior to the usuage of the truck
- Ensuring that immediate corrections or repairs are brought up and addressed before driving off
- When any problems in the red category are detected one must make the necessary corrections or repairs in the event of detecting any problems in the blue category, on site if possible, otherwise to report this for correction within 24 hours
- Signing off the checklist and ensuring that it is also signed by the Foreman and the mechanic
- Calibrate the instrumentation on the truck plant to ensure that all metrics remain correct or after major repairs were done on the vehicle, on a monthly basis
- Cleans the vehicle on an ongoing basis so that it is presentable in the eye of the public and takes personal pride in it
- Completing Truck Performance administration on a daily basis
- Greases, captures and signs off the truck on a weekly basis
- Drives the truck safely and responsibly in all weather conditions and on all road surface conditions when picking up or delivering products to the blasting site
- Ensures that all the prescribed legal paperwork is in truck (e.g., copies of manufacturing permits, CTP, TTP, as stated in work instruction)
- Supervises the loading of the truck at the silos with the required product by the Truck Assistant
- Ensures that all SHERQ requirements are met
- Receives the charging instruction from the Blaster
- Carries out an inspection of all the holes and measures and records them to ensure that they are drilled to the correct depth
- Report on any out of spec holes to tthe Blaster on site
- Perform calculations to determine the correct mass of product to be loaded in each hole and reports any discrepancies to with the Foreman
- Inspects all the pumps and settings prior to commencing with the pumping process
- Takes a sample of the product and then analyses it to assess the product density prior to commencing the charging process
- Reports any out of spec analyses to the Foreman and will only start the pumping when completely satisfied with the product quality
- Reports any out of spec settings or equipment to the Foreman and will only start the pumping when completely satisfied with the mechanics of the process
- Engages the pumping process and loading the holes according to the design specs while ensuring all prescribed SHERQ requirements are met
- Takes a sample of the product as per BME standards, and/or customer requirements, to ensure that the product quality remains within spec and records it on the sheet provided
- Performs general administrative duties such as correct completion of loading sheets, pre-use checklists, as per BME standards
- Complete grease schedules, calibrations and truck performance
- Supervises the work of the Truck Assistants

**Job Competencies**:

- Custiner focussed
- Problem Solving

**General**:
**Key Relationships**:

- Senior Management/Management
- Customers
- Support Teams
- Operations
- Any other stakeholder as may be deemed important and relevant from time to time