Kalgoorlie-Boulder mining jobs
Large Goldfields city with a residential mining workforce plus DIDO to nearby pits.
- Commodity / industry
- Gold
- Residential vs FIFO
- Residential and DIDO; some FIFO into the wider Goldfields
- Typical first roles
- Camp and village support · Trades assistant · Process / lab support · Haulage
- Nearest major city
- Perth (~6 hours by road, regular flights)
How to find work here
- Being in Kalgoorlie beats sending FIFO applications from the east coast. Rent a bed first, then walk desks.
- Target gold-mine support: camp, TA, process, lab, haulage — not a first-week dump-truck job.
- Register with labour hire before you arrive so they can call you the same week.
Where to go
- Labour-hire and contractor offices around Hannan Street and the Boulder / industrial yards — search current addresses on the agency site, they move.
- Perth remains the FIFO backup if a Goldfields residential role does not appear in the first fortnight.
Who to apply to
Official career pages only. Addresses and phone numbers change — use the company site, not a screenshot from a Facebook group.
- Northern Star careers — Major Kalgoorlie gold employer
- WorkPac — Labour hire — check their Kalgoorlie office locator
- Seek: Kalgoorlie mining — Public ads
Recruiting events & timing
Diggers & Dealers (usually August) fills the town with industry people. Labour-hire desks also run registration days — confirm on their websites. No walk-up job is guaranteed that week.
Accommodation
Town rentals and share houses are competitive. Site camps are more common on outlying operations.
Current G’day jobs in the area
88 days valid means the employer marked specified work and the town and job type can count. Confirm with Home Affairs. FIFO / DIDO / residential are rarely labelled consistently on ads — read the description.
No matching mining-related listings on G’day right now. Search the full job board
If nothing is listed here, use Seek and the career links above — most mining hiring never hits a backpacker board. Back to the mining hub