Quarry Worker Resume Examples & Writing Guide

One page, aimed at a plant manager or quarry superintendent. The name and companies are invented. The tonnage, uptime and equipment hours are the kind of numbers on your own shift reports and the plant's production sheet.

Aggregate operations are regulated by the Mine Safety and Health Administration, not by the workplace safety rules that cover most industries, and training is mandatory before you work at a mine site. Nothing else on your resume moves faster than a current training record.

• Surface sand, gravel and stone operations generally train under MSHA Part 46, with new miner training, annual refresher training and site-specific hazard awareness training. Underground and metal or nonmetal operations fall under different parts, so name the one that applies to your sites.
• Write the training you hold with dates: new miner training year, most recent annual refresher, and task training on specific equipment.
• Say whether you have an MSHA individual identification number already. It is administrative, but it saves an employer a step.
• List task training by machine. Being trained on a haul truck and a loader is different from being trained on a crusher circuit.
• Add any first aid, CPR, mine rescue, confined space, fall protection or hot work training you carry.
• If your training has lapsed, say when it lapsed rather than leaving it out. Producers can put you through refresher training; they cannot fix a surprise.

• Training status. Current, lapsed or none. This decides your start date.
• Equipment by size and model class. A 966 loader and a 992 loader are not the same job, and neither is a 40-ton articulated truck and a 100-ton rigid.
• Whether you can work the plant, not just drive past it. Screen changes, crusher adjustments, belt splices and clearing a bridged jaw are the skills that keep a plant running.
• Production and uptime numbers. Tons per shift, uptime percentage, downtime hours, loads out the gate. Aggregate is a tonnage business and everyone talks in these units.
• Safety record and workplace examination habits. Inspections are a fact of life at a quarry, and a worker who logs conditions properly is worth real money.
• Shift and season flexibility. Many quarries run long hours in construction season and cut back in winter, so say what you can work.

“First thing I look for is whether your training is current, because that tells me if you start Monday or in three weeks. Then equipment and tonnage. Somebody who writes that they took plant uptime from 88 to 94 percent understands what this business sells, and that is rare on a resume.”

• Plant: jaw, cone and impact crushers, screens and decks, wash plants, conveyors, feeders, stackers, control tower operation, closed side setting adjustment, clearing bridging and blockages.
• Mobile equipment: front end loaders by class, articulated and rigid haul trucks by capacity, excavators, dozers, graders, water trucks, skid steers, telehandlers.
• Maintenance: belt splicing, idler and pulley changes, screen cloth changes, liner changes, greasing and lube routes, basic welding and torch work, hydraulic hose changes.
• Quality and production: gradation sampling, sieve analysis, moisture checks, stockpile management, load out and scale house basics.
• Safety and compliance: workplace examinations, MSHA training status, lockout/tagout, machine guarding, fall protection, confined space, silica and dust controls, hearing conservation, berms and haul road standards.
• Licenses: commercial driver's license class and endorsements, forklift, crane or rigging tickets, and any explosives-related card you hold legitimately.

Quarries hire laborers and utility workers with no mining background regularly, then train them onto equipment. The page has to show that you will show up, work outside all day and take training seriously.

1. 1Ask for the role by name: general laborer, utility worker, plant helper. Say you understand it starts with cleanup, hosing down and shoveling under conveyors.
2. 2Say you are willing to complete MSHA new miner training before your start date, and check whether your state or a local community college offers the course.
3. 3List any equipment hours at all, from a skid steer on a construction site to a tractor on a family farm to a forklift in a warehouse.
4. 4Put attendance on the page with a number, and mention experience with long shifts, heat, cold and dust.
5. 5Include a commercial driver's license if you hold one, with the class. It gives a producer a second way to use you immediately.
6. 6Keep it to one page and be ready for a drug screen and a physical, which are standard in this industry.

• One page, single column, PDF. No photo and no date of birth on a US resume.
• Put training status and equipment in the top third. Everything else is secondary in this industry.
• Larger producers run applicant tracking software, so mirror the posting's words: aggregate, crusher, screen, plant operator, haul truck, workplace exam, MSHA.
• Name your shift and season availability. Construction season means long hours and quarry hiring follows it.
• In the UK and Ireland this job is advertised as quarry operative or quarryman, with competence cards from the local scheme instead of MSHA training. Keep the US resume format and mention the term once if that is where your experience comes from.
• Keep a printed copy in the truck. Plenty of pits still hire from a conversation at the scale house.