The global mining industry experienced a 7% drop in new job postings related to batteries in Q2 2024 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 2% decrease versus Q2 2023. GlobalData’s Mining: Hiring Trends & Signals Q2 2024 report reveals comprehensive insights into hiring patterns, job roles, required skills, geographical trends, and key themes within the mining industry, facilitating anticipation of future workforce needs. Buy the report here.
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Notably, Architecture and Engineering Occupations jobs accounted for an 11% share of the global mining industry’s batteries-related total new job postings in Q2 2024, down 32% over the prior quarter.
Architecture and Engineering Occupations drive batteries-related hiring activity
Architecture and Engineering Occupations, with a share of 11%, emerged as the top batteries-related job roles within the mining industry in Q2 2024, with new job postings drop by 32% quarter-on-quarter. Office and Administrative Support Occupations came in second with a share of 11% in Q2 2024, with new job postings rising by 7% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent batteries roles include Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations with a 9% share in Q2 2024, Construction and Extraction Occupations with a 8% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in mining industry accounted for 47% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q2 2024 were ABB, Glencore, Radius Recycling, Mineral Resources, and Eaton. Together they accounted for a combined share of 47% of all batteries-related new jobs in the mining industry.
ABB posted 110 batteries-related new jobs in Q2 2024, Glencore 101 jobs, Radius Recycling 101 jobs, Mineral Resources 93 jobs, and Eaton 78 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 39.00% share of total new job postings, Q2 2024
The largest share of batteries-related new job postings in the mining industry in Q2 2024 was in the US with 39.00% followed by Australia (19.35%) and Canada (11.89%). The share represented by the US was four percentage points lower than the 43.07% share it accounted for in Q1 2024.
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