About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma.
Work site environment: Outdoors. Work setting: Remote location.
Tasks
- 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.
- Read instructions or diagrams and lay out drill patterns.
- Ensure health and safety regulations are followed.
- Operate air-track, rotary, down-the-hole or other drilling machines to drill blast holes or may direct drilling of blast holes.
- 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.
- Train staff.
- Supervise staff.
- Rig and hoist equipment.
- Operate snowmobiles.
- Maintain equipment.
- Complete reports.
- Collect samples of materials for analysis.
- Work with minimal supervision.
- Follow emergency and safety procedures.
- Operate industrial trucks, tractors and other mobile equipment.
- Drilling equipment: Diamond drill.
- Equipment and machinery experience: Drilling machine.
- Security and safety: Drug test.
- Transportation/travel information: Valid driver's licence.
- Willing to travel.
- Travel expenses paid by employer.
- Driver's abstract.
- Willing to travel regularly.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Work under pressure.
- Physically demanding.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Personal suitability: Accurate.
- Excellent oral communication.
- Team player.
- Organized.
- Proactive.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Evening.
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years.
- Employment terms options: Shift.
- Morning.
- Night.
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Health benefits: Dental plan.
- Health care plan.
- Vision care benefits.
- Financial benefits: Bonus.
- Other benefits: Learning/training paid by employer.
- On-site housing options.
- Other benefits.
- Support for youths: Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth.