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-day potential” only reflects how the employer tagged the ad. Confirm specified-work rules 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