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Mining Production Supervisor
OFO Code: 312101
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 312101
- Occupation
- Mining Production Supervisor
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- TECHNICIANS AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 3121 · Mining Production / Operations Supervisors
Official description
Mining supervisors oversee mining and quarrying operations and directly supervise and coordinate the activities of miners working in underground and surface mines and quarries.
More official OFO detail
Alternative titles: Mine Operations foreman, Shift Foreman/ Boss (Mining), Shift overseer (Mining), Mine superintendent, Mining Operations Supervisor, Mine Manager
Specialisations: Shift Supervisor (Mining), Mine Overseer (Production), Mine Overseer (Projects), Master Sinker, Mine Overseer (Planning), Shift Overseer (Mining), Quarry Foreman, Mine Environmental Control Supervisor, Pit Foreman, Mine Operations Foreman
- Providing reports and other information to mining managers about all aspects of mining or quarrying operations;
- Determining staffing and material needs for the mine or quarry
- Establishing methods to meet work schedules and recommending measures to mining managers to improve productivity;
- Working with managerial and technical personnel, other departments and contractors to resolve operational problems and coordinate activities;
- Directly supervising and coordinating the activities of workers who extract minerals and other natural deposits from the earth, operate underground conveyances or heavy equipment in surface mines and quarries;
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.