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The Gindalbie –AnSteel joint venture, Karara Mining is offering a three year traineeship to eight people with no previous mining training from the Mid West region to enter the industry.
The three-year traineeship will begin with a four week training program at the Durack Institute of Technology, which provides vocational education and training in the Central West region of WA.
Following completion of the training program, trainees would transition to site on an eight-days-on, six-days-off roster as a process operator.
Over the three year period the trainees would obtain a certificate 3 in resource processing.
Karara chief executive officer Steve Murdoch said the 30-year plus iron ore project was investing heavily to develop people with skills required to secure the future of the region, opting for a “community focused and grassroots approach.”
“We believe that this program provides a unique opportunity for unskilled workers who might be interested in pursuing a career in the mining and resources sector but who are deterred by the fact that they don’t have a trade or qualification just to get through the door,” Murdoch said.
Murdoch encouraged Mid West residents with a desire to work in the industry to apply.
The latest program marked one of several traineeship and employment programs launched by Karara over the past three years as it moved closer to first production of its flagship Karara project, based 225km inland of Geraldton.
The company also offers a university scholarship program and a high school program in the Mid West.
Karara, which is in the final stages of construction currently employs more than 1800 people on site during construction phase and would require a permanent workforce of approximately 600 people once in production.
First production from the 8 million tonnes per annum magnetite project was scheduled for September this year, while production of direct shipping ore had been underway since March.
Shares in Gindalbie were up 10.6% to 4.7c.