Training tailored to your role
Looking to upskill in a certain job area? Our role-focused training will equip you with the Deswik skills you need to perform your day-to-day activities with confidence.
A clear pathway to develop your skills
Our training profiles have been developed by sector and role to give you a clear pathway for building the Deswik skillset that aligns with your job requirements. From design to technical services to planning, our training program supports your entire team with the necessary Deswik skills to produce results efficiently and effectively.
Training profiles can be customized to fit your specific requirements, with a number of additional training modules also available. Please contact us to talk about your training needs.
Design Profiles
Design Foundations
This profile expands on the skills covered in the Essentials training, focusing on common tools and functions used for design in surface metals operations.
Skills include:
- Model configuration
- Handling geological data
- Geomodel calculation and interrogation
- Pit design and reconciliation tools
- Analysis and reporting
Landform & Haulage
This profile provides training on how to create a dump schedule and determine haulage requirements for a typical surface metals project, focusing on truck and shovel operations.
Skills include:
- Dump design and dump block dependencies
- Haul road networks and slot connectors
- Generate haulage scenarios
- Scenario analysis and reporting
Technical Profiles
Drill & Blast
This profile provides training on how to design and plot drill and blast patterns for surface metals operations.
Skills include:
- Drill pattern management
- Blast design
- Real-world training scenarios
- Blast design plotting
Geologist
This profile is developed for geologists working in surface operations. It introduces design tools and functions and how they are applied in realistic scenarios.
Skills include:
- Basic design functions
- Drillhole databases and planning
- Geomodel generation and manipulation
- Geological solids modeling
- Reconciliation processes
Surveyor
This profile is developed for surveyors working in surface operations. It explores our comprehensive set of survey tools and how they are applied in realistic situations.
Skills include:
- Basic design functions
- Survey setup including stations data management
- Importing and exporting data
- As-built creation and editing
- EOM calculations and stockpile reconciliation
- Processing CMS data
Planning Profiles
Planning Foundations
This profile is developed for strategic and tactical range planners. It explores the processes used by our integrated planning tools to dynamically link designs and schedules in a typical surface metals operation.
Skills include:
- Model configuration and project linking
- Creation of bench block reserves
- Task creation and sequencing
- Dynamic model management and updating
Optimization
This profile is developed for planners working in the project optimization space. It covers the tools and functions that apply industry-leading algorithms, and demonstrates using realistic scenarios for common surface mining operations.
Skills include:
- Introduction to our global optimizer (Deswik GO)
- Project configuration
- Pit shell optimization and phase generation
- Mining and destination schedule optimization
- Underlying theory behind the different solutions
- Optional pseudoflow focused training
Short-Term Planning
This profile is developed for planners using our short-term scheduling tools, integrating short-range ore control, design, drill and blast, haulage, material flow, and scheduling.
Skills include:
- Overview of standard integrated planning models
- Generate project-specific scenarios
- Resource assignment and task sequencing
- Material flow
- Reporting and analysis
Design Profiles
Design Foundations
This profile expands on the skills covered in the Essentials training, focusing on common tools and functions used for underground metals design and analysis.
Skills include:
- Model configuration
- Handling geological data
- Geomodel calculation and interrogation
- Basic productivity stope design
- Basic survey and reconciliation
- Analysis and reporting
Production Design
This profile builds on the skills learnt in Design Foundations, expanding on underground production design and the different tools for stope design and optimization.
Skills include:
- Model setup and configuration
- Stope design configuration
- Scenario and optimization options
- Reporting and analysis
- Option to include narrow vein specific design tools
Technical Profiles
Drill & Blast
This profile explores the processes required to design and plot drill and blast designs for a typical underground metals stoping operation.
Skills include:
- Basic design functions
- Winze design and placement
- Ring and hole design
- Hole charging and delays
- Blast design plotting
Surveyor
This profile is developed for surveyors working in underground metals operations and explores our comprehensive set of survey tools and how they are applied in realistic situations.
Skills include:
- Basic design functions
- Survey setup including stations database
- Importing and exporting data
- As-built creation and editing
- Laser offsets and plotting
- End-of-month calculations and reconciliation
- Processing CMS data
Geologist
This profile is developed for geologists working in underground metals operations, introducing design tools and functions as well as how they are applied in realistic scenarios.
Skills include:
- Basic design functions
- Drillhole databases and planning
- Geomodel generation and manipulation
- Geological solids modeling
- Reconciliation proceses
Planning Profiles
Planning Foundations
Developed for strategic and tactical range planners, the profile explores the processes used by our integrated planning tools to dynamically link designs and schedules in a typical underground metals operation.
Skills include:
- Model configuration and project linking
- Creation of development and stope solids
- Task creation and sequencing
- Underground specific dependency training
- Dynamic model management and updating
Design Profiles
Design Foundations
This profile expands on the skills covered in the Essentials training, focusing on common tools and functions used for surface coal operations.
Skills include:
- Grid handling and creation
- Polyline creation and modification
- Explore standard design requirements
- Attribute development and application
- Basic reporting and analysis
Dragline Design
Developed for users working in the design of dragline and dozer operations, this profile explores the tools for creating dragline range diagrams and dozer push design.
Skills include:
- Model set and configuration
- Data import and preparation
- Scenario creation and section design
- Reporting and analysis
Landform & Haulage
This profile provides training on how to create a dump schedule and determine haulage requirements for a typical surface coal project, covering both dragline, and truck and shovel operations.
Skills include:
- Dump design and dump block dependencies
- Haul road networks and slot connectors
- Dragline cast and strip dependencies
- Generating haulage scenarios
- Scenario analysis and reporting
Technical Profiles
Drill & Blast
This profile provides training on how to design and plot drill and blast patterns for surface coal operations.
Skills include:
- Basic design functions
- Drill pattern management
- Blast design
- Real-world training scenarios
- Blast design plotting
Geologist
Developed for geologists working in surface operations, this profile introduces design tools and functions and how they are applied in realistic scenarios.
Skills include:
- Basic design functions
- Drillhole databases and planning
- Geomodel generation and manipulation
- Geological solids modeling
- Reconciliation processes
Surveyor
Developed for surveyors working in surface operations, this profile explores our comprehensive set of survey tools and how they are applied in realistic situations.
Skills include:
- Basic design functions
- Survey setup including stations data management
- Importing and exporting data
- As-built creation and editing
- End-of-month calculations and stockpile reconciliation
- Processing CMS data
Planning Profiles
Planning Foundations
Developed for strategic and tactical range planners, the profile explores the processes used by our integrated planning tools to dynamically link designs and schedules in a typical surface coal operation.
Skills include:
- Model configuration and project linking
- Creation of solid block reserves
- Task creation and sequencing
- Dynamic model management and updating
Design Profiles
Design Foundations
This profile expands on the skills covered in the Essentials training, focusing on common tools and functions used for underground coal design.
Skills include:
- Model configuration
- Attribute design and application
- Handling geological data
- Reserves generation
- Design tools for room and pillar, and longwall
- Analysis and reporting
Technical Profiles
Surveyor
Developed for surveyors working in underground operations, this profile explores our comprehensive set of survey tools and how they are applied in realistic situations.
Skills include:
- Basic design functions
- Survey setup including stations database
- Importing and exporting data
- As-built creation and editing
- Laser offsets and plotting
- End-of-month calculations and reconciliation
Geologist
This profile is developed for geologists working in underground coal operations, introducing design tools and functions as well as how they are applied in realistic scenarios.
Skills include:
- Basic design functions
- Drillhole databases and planning
- Geomodel generation and manipulation
- Geological solids modeling
- Reconciliation processes
Planning Profiles
Planning Foundations
Developed for strategic and tactical range planners, the profile explores the processes used by our integrated planning tools to dynamically link designs and schedules in a typical underground coal operation.
Skills include:
- Model configuration and project linking
- Creation of development and longwall solids
- Task creation and sequencing
- Dynamic model management and updating
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