- Rural area
- Willing to relocate
- Relocation costs not covered by employer
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Conduct field tests to determine type and quantity of explosives required
- Determine depth and diameter of blast holes
- Drive and operate tracked or truck-mounted rotary drilling to bore large blast holes to specified depths at staked positions in open-pit mine or quarry
- Load explosives in blast holes by hand
- Read instructions or diagrams and lay out drill patterns
- Ensure health and safety regulations are followed
- Connect electrical wires, detonating cords or fuses into series and connect series to blasting machines; press handle or button to detonate charges
- Measure location and stake out pattern of holes to be drilled, load blast holes with explosives and detonate explosives to dislodge coal, ore or rock
- Operate air-track, rotary, down-the-hole or other drilling machines to drill blast holes or may direct drilling of blast holes
- Handle, store and transport explosives and accessories in accordance with regulations and ensure that safety procedures are observed
- Drive and operate air-track or other drilling machines to bore large blast holes to specified depths at staked positions in open-pit mine or quarry
- Operate drilling machines to drill blast holes in rock at road or other construction sites
- Assemble or direct other workers to assemble primer charges using selected detonators, fuses, detonating cords and other materials