AMS offers contract surface mining and exploration drilling services to the mining industry throughout West Africa.
AMS offers a full complement of contract mining services for open-cut mining throughout Africa. We specialize in running large critical mass mining contracting fleets in difficult and challenging environments. We have one of the longest running and largest fleets on the continent.
The people who work for AMS are recognised throughout Africa as being the best in their field in terms of skill, talent and professionalism. That’s our intent.
From the beginning we have made a commitment to the training and professional progression of African Nationals. Our approach to this is the same as any multinational company — training abroad, tertiary correspondence and apprenticeship programs. It is our intent to develop a skilled, local workforce and create career pathways for them. More than 80 people in leadership roles across our African operations are originally from African countries.
With a solid commitment to training, employing local talent and building both capacity and capability in the local communities we operate in, we’re proud to have trained more than 20,000 African Nationals, providing them with industry-competitive remuneration packages. Less than 5% of our employees are expatriates.Our on-ground African expertise, both national and expatriate, is combined with human resources available from within the Perenti Group. This gives our employees the ability to contribute to and learn from a pool of knowledge covering all facets of contract mining. No other contract mining services company in Africa has this kind of backing and influence.
We are now experiencing second-generation employees at AMS. Our employee educational scholarship program has assisted our employees in ensuring their dependents are educated and skilled.In addition, we’re mindful of our responsibility for skills transfer to our employees here and abroad. We have over 85 West Africans working for AMS and the Group as expatriates in our operations in Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Senegal and in Australia. More than 200 of our African National employees have gone on to secure employment in the mining industry within various African countries and throughout the world. They are recognised globally as the best in the business and we consider this a benchmark of success for our training and professional development policies. Our apprenticeship programs have trained and qualified more than 150 apprentices in a number of trades including maintenance, auto-electrical and fabrication.
We are now experiencing second-generation employees at AMS. Our employee educational scholarship program has assisted our employees in ensuring their dependents are educated and skilled.In addition, we’re mindful of our responsibility for skills transfer to our employees here and abroad. We have over 85 West Africans working for AMS and the Group as expatriates in our operations in Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Senegal and in Australia.
In 2009 we kicked off our Graduate Mining Engineer program, where graduate mining engineers are employed for a two-year program after completing tertiary studies. This program ensures young mining engineers receive valuable, hands-on training. The world-class program is modelled on successful and similar programs operated in Australia and is still in practice today.
