Operate machinery such as longwall shears, plows, and cutting machines to cut or channel along the face or seams of coal mines, stone quarries, or other mining surfaces to facilitate blasting, separating, or removing minerals or materials from mines or from the Earth's surface. Includes shale planers.
<ul><li>Position jacks, timbers, or roof supports, and install casings, to prevent cave-ins.</li><li>Reposition machines and move controls to make additional holes or cuts.</li><li>Cut entries between rooms and haulage ways.</li><li>Observe indicator lights and gauges, and listen to machine operation to detect binding or stoppage of tools or other equipment problems.</li><li>Replace worn or broken tools and machine bits and parts, using wrenches, pry bars, and other hand tools, and lubricate machines, using grease guns.</li><li>Press buttons to activate conveyor belts, and push or pull chain handles to regulate conveyor movement so that material can be moved or loaded into dinkey cars or dump trucks.</li></ul>