Mine Electrician (Mining Electrician) CV Examples & Writing Guide
A mine electrician CV gets a call back when the first third of the page shows four things: your mine training status (site induction, underground training and the date of your last refresher), your electrical qualifications such as an NVQ Level 3, 18th Edition and CompEx, the voltages and equipment you have worked on, and a safety record you can state in numbers.
Mine electrician CV example (underground minerals, 8 years)
This sample is for an experienced underground mine electrician who also has surface quarry and processing plant time. The name is made up and the mines are described, not named. If you work surface only, in quarries or in tunnelling, keep the same layout and swap the equipment list for yours.
Dale Kirkpatrick
Mine Electrician
Darlington, County Durham · 07700 900148 · dale.kirkpatrick@email.com · CompEx and 18th Edition certificate numbers on request
Summary
Underground mine electrician with 8 years on continuous miner sections and mineral processing plant. Qualified electrician (NVQ Level 3, 18th Edition) with CompEx, underground training current and annual refresher completed February 2026. Fault-finds 1.1 kV and 3.3 kV power centres, trailing cables, VSDs and PLC-controlled conveyor drives. Eight years with no lost-time injury and no flameproof inspection failures on equipment assigned to me.
Experience
Mine Electrician · Underground mineral mine, northern England (two continuous miner sections, 210 employees)
Mar 2021 – Present
- Maintain electrical systems on 2 continuous miners, 4 shuttle cars, 3 roof bolters and 2 feeder-breakers, plus 6 mine power centres stepping 11 kV down to 1.1 kV and 400 V.
- Carry out weekly flameproof (Ex d) inspections on 14 pieces of explosion-protected equipment, recording flame-path gaps and cable conditions in the electrical inspection records; zero audit or enforcement findings on assigned equipment in five years.
- Cut average downtime on section belt drives from 4.5 hours to 1.2 hours per fault by rebuilding the fault-finding procedure around the PLC diagnostic screen and a labelled spares kit at the drive.
- Test and repair 400 V and 1.1 kV trailing cables: vulcanised splices, continuity and insulation resistance testing with a 1,000 V tester, and monthly earth continuity checks on all section cables.
- Trained 4 new underground starters on isolation and lock-off, cable handling and arc-flash boundaries; all four passed their probationary review at the first attempt.
Electrical Technician, Processing Plant · Mineral processing plant and rail load-out (surface, 1,100 tonnes an hour)
Jun 2018 – Feb 2021
- Kept 40+ motors from 4 to 300 kW running across screens, centrifuges, thickeners and the load-out belt, working a rotating 12-hour shift including weekends.
- Replaced 6 direct-on-line starters with variable speed drives on the reject belt system, cutting motor rebuild costs by about £14,000 a year.
- Rewired the load-out control panel and updated 30+ pages of drawings that had not matched the plant since a 2015 rebuild.
- Responded to plant call-outs averaging 3 a month with a 45-minute site arrival time, restoring production the same shift in 9 of 10 cases.
Apprentice Electrician, then Electrician · Industrial electrical contractor (quarry and mineral processing clients)
Aug 2014 – May 2018
- Completed a 4-year Level 3 electrical maintenance apprenticeship with college day release covering BS 7671, motor controls and PLC basics.
- Installed conduit, cable tray, SWA cabling, lighting and 400 V distribution on 11 quarry and sand plant projects.
- Held quarry health and safety training from 2014 and moved to the mine's own induction and training when joining the mine site in 2018.
Education
HNC, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Further education college, Teesside, 2016
Level 3 apprenticeship, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Maintenance (NVQ Level 3)
Industrial electrical contractor and college (day release), 2018
Certifications
- 18th Edition Wiring Regulations (BS 7671), current
- Underground induction and task training, annual refresher current (February 2026)
- Quarry health and safety (SHEA) training (quarries and processing plant)
- Authorised person, electrical, under the mine's management rules (appointed 2021)
- First Aid at Work, current
- CompEx Ex01–Ex04 (hazardous area equipment), 2025
Skills
What a mine electrical engineer checks in the first 20 seconds
Mines hire electricians in a hurry and lose them the same way. The person screening your CV is usually a maintenance supervisor or the mine electrical engineer, and they are looking for four things before anything else.
- Training status. Quarry training and a SHEA card for surface work, or underground induction and task training under the Mines Regulations 2014, and when your refresher is due. Write the month and year.
- Electrical qualifications. An NVQ Level 3 or equivalent apprenticeship, the 18th Edition, and for flameproof and hazardous area work, CompEx or equivalent hazardous area training. Say what you hold and whether it is current. Also say plainly if you have no hazardous area training and are willing to do it.
- Voltage and equipment. There is a real difference between a plant electrician working 400 V starters and someone who fault-finds a 3.3 kV longwall. Name the voltages, the machines and whether it was flameproof equipment.
- Safety record and shift reality. Years without a lost-time injury, inspection findings on your equipment, and whether you have worked rotating 12s, nights and call-outs. The mine wants to know you already know what the rota is.
“I can teach a good electrician our machines. What I cannot fix in a hurry is missing mine training or an electrical ticket that lapsed two years ago. If those two lines are at the top of the page, I read the rest.”
Mine training, electrical qualifications and how to list them
This is the section most mine electrician CVs get wrong. Give the training a heading of its own and put it above education, because it decides whether you can start.
"Underground induction and task training, 2018; annual refresher current, completed February 2026." Add surface induction if you also hold it at the same mine.
"Quarry health and safety (SHEA) training, 2014; refresher completed March 2026; site inductions at three quarry operations."
"NVQ Level 3, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Maintenance, 2018 · 18th Edition (BS 7671), current." Name the qualification and the level; the reader wants to see a qualified electrician, not an improver.
"Authorised person for electrical work under the mine's management rules, appointed 2021." This is the line that says you may isolate, test and repair high-voltage and flameproof equipment.
"CompEx Ex01–Ex04, 2025." CompEx or equivalent training shows you can install, inspect and maintain explosion-protected equipment in hazardous areas.
"Safe isolation and arc-flash awareness, 2025 · First Aid at Work, current · Mine rescue brigade member, 2022 to 2024." Mine rescue is worth its own line; operations value it highly.
Mine electrician CV personal statement examples
Three or four lines under your name. Years, mine type, qualifications, voltages, one safety or downtime number. That is the whole formula.
Qualified mine electrician with 8 years in minerals, the last 5 underground on continuous miner sections. Underground training current, refresher due February 2027. Fault-finds 1.1 kV power centres, trailing cables, VSDs and PLC belt controls. No lost-time injury in eight years and no flameproof inspection failures on assigned equipment.
Mine electrician with 6 years at limestone and sand operations. Quarry SHEA card current. Maintains crusher and screen motors up to 450 kW, 400 V motor control centres, conveyor belt weighers and plant lighting. Cut unplanned crusher electrical downtime by 30% over two years.
Underground electrician with 5 years in hard rock mining and tunnelling, working on 3.3 kV and 11 kV substations, hoist and ventilation fan controls, jumbo drills and battery-electric haulage. Underground training and confined space entry current. Led the electrical scope of two shaft outage weekends with no schedule overrun.
Qualified industrial electrician (NVQ Level 3, 18th Edition) with 10 years in cement and aggregates plants, now quarry SHEA trained and seeking underground work. Strong on 400 V and 3.3 kV motor controls, VSDs and Allen-Bradley PLCs. Willing to complete CompEx and the mine's underground induction and assessment.
Electrical maintenance apprentice in the third year of a 4-year Level 3 apprenticeship, with quarry health and safety training. Two years supporting quarry plant maintenance: conduit, starters, lighting and belt switches. Holds a clean full UK driving licence and works any shift rotation.
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Experience bullets that work on a mining electrical CV
The pattern is: what you worked on, how big it was, what result it produced. Vague duty lists read as if you handed someone else the tools.
| Weak | Strong |
|---|---|
| Responsible for electrical maintenance underground. | Maintained electrical systems on two continuous miner sections: 2 miners, 4 shuttle cars, 3 bolters and 6 mine power centres, on a rotating 12-hour rota. |
| Worked on trailing cables. | Made 60+ vulcanised trailing cable splices a year on 1.1 kV and 400 V cables, with insulation resistance verified at 1,000 V before every cable went back in service. |
| Did flameproof checks. | Ran weekly flameproof inspections on 14 explosion-protected machines, measuring flame-path gaps to specification and logging every finding in the electrical inspection records. |
| Troubleshot conveyor problems. | Reduced average belt drive fault time from 4.5 hours to 1.2 hours by rewriting the fault-finding sequence around the PLC fault codes and staging spare contactors at the drive. |
| Helped with high voltage. | Switched and tested 11 kV surface distribution and 3.3 kV substations under a permit-to-work system, including relay testing and annual thermal imaging of 8 substations. |
| Installed VSDs. | Replaced 6 direct-on-line starters with PowerFlex VSDs on reject belts, cutting motor rebuild spend by roughly £14,000 a year and removing two nuisance trips a week. |
| Trained new employees. | Trained 4 new underground starters on cable handling, isolation and lock-off and arc-flash boundaries; all four passed their probationary review at the first attempt. |
| Kept records. | Maintained the electrical inspection records and 30+ pages of plant drawings, correcting drawings that had not matched the installed equipment since a 2015 rebuild. |
Mine electrician CV skills that recruiters search for
Keep the list to 12 to 15 lines and make every one something a mine actually has. Split it if it helps: power systems, machines, then tools and safety.
- Power distribution: mine power centres, load centres, substations, rectifiers, transformers, switchgear, 400 V through 11 kV
- Cables: trailing cable splicing (vulcanised and cold), earth continuity, earth fault and earth leakage protection circuits
- Explosion-protected equipment: flameproof (Ex d) enclosures, flame-path measurement, hazardous area inspections to the site's scheme
- Machines: continuous miners, roof bolters, shuttle cars, feeder-breakers, loaders, longwall shearer and stage loader, jumbo drills, LHDs
- Plant equipment: crushers, screens, centrifuges, thickeners, belt conveyors, belt weighers, dust collectors, pumps
- Controls: Allen-Bradley PLCs, VSDs, soft starts, motor control centres, relay logic, proximity and belt switches, radio remote
- Test equipment: insulation resistance tester, multimeter, clamp meter, high-voltage pressure tester, phase rotation meter, thermal imaging camera, torque wrench
- Safety: isolation and lock-off, arc-flash awareness, permit-to-work, confined space entry, self-rescuer use, mine rescue
- Documentation: electrical inspection records, drawings and single-line diagrams, work orders in a CMMS (for example SAP PM or Maximo)
Soft skills belong in your bullets, not in a list. The ones mines care about are turning up for the shift you were given, writing a clear record entry, and telling a supervisor early when something is not safe to run.
No mining experience yet? How to write the CV anyway
Mines, quarries and tunnelling contractors hire electricians from outside mining all the time, especially from industrial plants, the armed forces and construction. The gap they worry about is not your wiring skill, it is whether you understand mine rules and the rota.
- 1Get quarry health and safety (SHEA) training or CompEx before you apply if you can. Training providers run short courses, and having it on the CV moves you ahead of people who do not.
- 2Translate your work into mine language. A cement plant motor control centre is close to a processing plant motor control centre. Say so, using the equipment names a mine would use.
- 3Put voltages and kW ratings on every relevant bullet. That is how a mine judges your level.
- 4State your availability directly: "available for rotating 12-hour shifts, weekends and call-outs; live 25 minutes from the site." Turnover is a real problem for mines and this line matters.
- 5Add anything safety-related you already hold: IOSH Managing Safely, safe isolation, CompEx, confined space, First Aid at Work, working at height.
- 6If you are an apprentice, give the year you are in and your college qualifications, then the equipment you have worked on.
Maintained 400 V motor control centres and 65 motors from 7.5 to 375 kW at a cement plant, including crusher, kiln fan and conveyor drives, on a 12-hour rotating shift.
Served 5 years as an Army electrician with the Royal Engineers, maintaining generators, 3.3 kV distribution and switchgear at three deployed sites with 99% uptime on critical circuits.
Installed and terminated 550 m of cable tray and 400 V feeders during a quarry plant upgrade, working under the quarry's site induction and permit-to-work system.
Format, length and applying to mining companies
- One page up to about 12 years. Two pages only if you have long lists of equipment, mines and qualifications worth showing.
- Order: contact, personal statement, qualifications and mine training, experience, skills, education. Qualifications go high because they decide whether you can be put on the rota.
- Plain single-column layout, no photo, no date of birth, no graphics. Large mining companies use applicant tracking systems and agency recruiters who print the page.
- Include the mine type and size in the employer line, not the company's marketing name: "Underground industrial mineral mine, two sections, 210 employees" tells the reader more than a brand.
- Mirror the advert's words when they are true for you: Mines Regulations, flameproof, CompEx, hazardous area, trailing cable, power centre, VSD, PLC, isolation and lock-off, planned maintenance, high voltage, fault finding.
- Send a PDF named Firstname-Lastname-Mine-Electrician-CV.pdf. Mine HR offices open a lot of files a day.
- Add a line for your full UK driving licence and any Category C entitlement. Some sites need you to move equipment or drive a personnel carrier.
- In the US the same worker writes a resume and needs MSHA training and often a state mine electrician certificate; Australian sites have their own rules again. This page covers UK practice.
Frequently asked questions
How do I write a mine electrician CV?
Put your mine training and refresher date, plus your electrical qualifications, 18th Edition and CompEx, right under your personal statement. Then give each job 4 or 5 bullets that name the voltages, the machines and one result, such as downtime cut or zero inspection findings. Finish with a skills list of real mine equipment. One page is enough for most electricians.
What should a mining electrician put in the CV description?
Describe the power system and the machines, not generic duties. For example: mine power centres stepping 11 kV to 1.1 kV, trailing cable splicing and testing, flameproof inspections on continuous miners and bolters, PLC and VSD fault finding on belt drives. Add the size (how many machines, how many cables) so the reader can judge your level.
Do I need mine training on my CV?
Yes, and be specific. Say whether it is quarry or underground training, when you completed your induction, and the date of your last refresher. A refresher that has expired means you cannot work until it is redone, so hiring managers look for that date first.
Is a special mine electrician certificate required in the UK?
There is no state-style mine electrician certificate in the UK. Mines and quarries must use competent electricians and appoint people to electrical duties under their own management rules, so they look for a recognised Level 3 qualification, the 18th Edition and, for flameproof and hazardous area work, CompEx or equivalent. If you lack hazardous area training, write that you are willing to complete it.
Can I become a mine electrician with no mining experience?
Often yes, if you are already a qualified electrician. Mines and tunnelling contractors hire from cement plants, steelworks, the armed forces and industrial contractors. Get quarry safety training or CompEx first, translate your experience into mine equipment terms, and state clearly that you can work rotating 12-hour shifts and call-outs.
How long should a mine electrician CV be?
One page for most people, two pages if you have more than about 12 years across several mines and a long qualifications list. Never three. A maintenance supervisor is reading between shift changes.
What skills should be on a mining electrician CV?
Trailing cable splicing and testing, mine power centres and substations, flameproof inspections, PLC and VSD fault finding, motor controls, high-voltage switching, insulation resistance testing and thermal imaging, safe isolation and arc-flash awareness, plus the specific machines you have maintained. Match the words in the job advert where they are true for you.
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