Manufacturing
Miner and quarry worker
Key facts
This job is declining in the United States. AI exposure: very low according to the ILO, low according to the BLS. Employment change in the United States by 2035: −1.5% (BLS). Future-proof jobs use similar skills: see "What next?".
The job
Miners and quarriers (ISCO 8111). Miners and quarriers operate plant, machinery and hand tools to extract rocks, mineral ores and other deposits from underground and surface mines and quarries.
Page built from official classifications (ILO, ESCO); figures cover all the jobs grouped here.
38 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- assistant driller
- coal cutter
- coal digger
- coal excavator
- coal hewer
- coalface miner
- collier
- dewatering equipment operator
- dewatering equipment technician
- dewatering filter operator
- dewatering operator
- dewatering techicians
- dewatering technician
- driller
- drillers assistant
- earth driller
- filter operator
- filter operators
- heavy equipment operators
- hewer
- infrastructure technician
- mine machine operator
- mine operative
- miners
- quarry stationary plant operative
- site services technician
- surface dewaterer
- surface miner
- surface mining operative
- underground heavy equipment operator
- underground mine operative
- underground mine worker
- underground miner
- underground miner (heavy equipment)
- underground miner equipment operator
- underground miner operator
- underground mineworker
- underground mining operative
What next?
Future-proof jobs that draw on skills close to this one. They are leads to explore, not an assessment of your profile.
- ChangingConstruction equipment operator
- ChangingDriller
- ChangingIndustrial maintenance technician
Indicative matches: at launch they will come from the skills listed in official occupational directories.
Gauges
No US indicator measures hiring difficulty job by job: this gauge stays empty. How countries are compared
Sources
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Generative AI and Jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposureInternational Labour Organization and NASK · May 2025 · large survey
- ESCO, European classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations (job titles and O*NET crosswalk)European Commission · version 1.2 · official statistics
- Jobs in 2030: projections by occupational family (summary table)Dares and France Stratégie · March 2022 · official statistics
- Labour needs survey (BMO) 2026France Travail · 2026 · large survey
- EURES report on labour shortages and surpluses 2025, annexEuropean Labour Authority · June 2026 · official statistics
Checked on 27 October 2026.