Also called: AHS Controller, Autonomous Mine Fleet Controller
Watches over fleets of driverless 300-ton mining trucks from a control room, clearing faults and rerouting them when the robots get stuck.
Twenty driverless haul trucks are moving ore around a copper pit, and your screens show each one's path. A truck stops because a rock fell on the road, so you send a dozer to clear it and reroute traffic. You also work with surveyors to map a new ramp into the system.
Estimated from large open-pit mine postings.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
High school diploma, about 0 years after high school. High school diploma; many were haul truck drivers trained on the system.
Ways in: On-the-job training. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Mining Technology, Industrial Automation, Information Technology.
Growing faster than average. More big US mines are switching to driverless truck fleets.
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. Software already drives the trucks; controllers handle exceptions, and smarter systems may need fewer of them.
Classes: Computer applications, Geography, Physics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 53-7199.
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