The Datum Report

Occupation 1123 · Managers, directors and senior officials

Production managers and directors in mining and energy

Half of full-time production managers and directors in mining and energy in the UK earn more than £63,241 a year, and half earn less.

Production managers and directors in mining, energy and water supply plan, organise, direct and co-ordinate the activities and resources necessary for the extraction of minerals and other natural deposits, the utilisation of sustainable and renewable energy sources and the production, storage and provision of gas, water and electricity supplies.

How people enter it

There are no pre-set entry standards. Entry is possible with either GCSEs/S grades or A levels/H grades, a BTEC Diploma, an apprenticeship, NVQ (level 3), a degree or equivalent qualification with relevant experience. Off and on-the-job training is provided and can lead to professional qualifications.

What the work involves

• co-ordinates the activities of mines and open-cast mining operations, quarries, drilling operations, offshore installations, solar power stations, wind farms and other renewable energy generating facilities
• co-ordinates and supervises coal-face production activities and ensures compliance with health and safety regulations
• determines staffing, material and other needs
• ensures that all haulage, storage, purification and distribution work is performed efficiently and in compliance with statutory and other regulations
• arranges for the provision of gas, water and electricity supplies
• ensures compliance with issues relating to the environmental impact of operations

Also called

Operations manager (mining, water & energy) · Quarry manager · Service manager (public utilities)

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for production managers and directors in mining and energy, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 3 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

Classified alongside this

Production managers and directors in construction · Production managers and directors in manufacturing