Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
or equivalent experience
Work site environment
Outdoors
Noisy
Dusty
Hot
Tasks
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
Ensure health and safety regulations are followed
Operate tracked or truck-mounted drill equipped with auger or other attachment to drill holes for building foundations or pilings
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
Operate drilling machines to drill blast holes in rock at road or other construction sites
