Abstract: For the purpose of exploring the qualities and abilities that foremen of coal mines were competent in their place, enhancing the grass-roots management capacity of coal mines, and decreasing the occurrence of unsafe behavior for miners. Through critical incident interviews and literature review, it initially determined the competency feature factors what foremen of coal mines should have. Then through twice questionnaire survey, it constructed competency feature models of foremen of coal mines with exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. The results showed that the competency feature models of foremen of coal mines consisted of 5 dimensions and 18 competency feature entries. The 5 dimensions were safety practice ability, interpersonal cooperation ability, self-development ability, team management ability and professional quality.