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Mineral Resources Manager
OFO Code: 132202
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 132202
- Occupation
- Mineral Resources Manager
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- MANAGERS
- Unit group
- 1322 · Mining Managers
Official description
Mining managers plan, direct, and coordinate the production activities of mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction operations.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Mining Exploration Manager, Resource Geologist, Chief Geologist (Mining), Mine Design and Planning Manager, Planning Manager (Mining), Chief Surveyor (Mining), Mine Planning Manager, Technical Services Manager (Mining), Chief Mine Planner, Exploration Manager, Grade Controller (Mining), Chief of Mining Services, Geology Manager (Mining)
- Coordinating the implementation of health and safety requirements
- Overseeing the selection, training and performance of staff
- Controlling the operation of plant and quality procedures through planning of maintenance, designation of operating hours and supply of equipment
- Evaluating efficiency of production sites to determine adequacy of personnel, equipment and technologies used, and make changes to work schedule or equipment when necessary
- Overseeing the acquisition and installation of new plant and equipment
- Conferring with other managers to set production quotas, plan extraction sites and develop policies for the removal of raw materials
- Establishing and managing budgets, monitoring production output and costs, and adjusting processes and resources to minimize costs
- Researching and implementing regulatory and statutory requirements affecting mineral extraction operations and the environment
- Controlling the preparation of production records and reports
- Planning details of production activities in terms of output quality and quantity, cost, time available and labour requirements
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.