How do they match: Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters

  • Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters

  • Oil Well Gun Perforator Operator
  • Oil Well Perforator Operator
  • Oil Well Shooter
  • Ammunition and Explosives Handler
  • Blast Driller
  • Blast Hole Driller
  • Explosives and Weapons Technical Instructor
  • Perforator Operator
  • Sample Taker Operator
  • Ski and Snowboard Instructor
  • Tier and Detonator

  • Operate drones for aerial survey of blast sites and for post-blast damage assessment.
  • Operate machines to flush earth cuttings or to blow dust from holes.
  • Connect electrical wire to primers, and cover charges or fill blast holes with clay, drill chips, sand, or other material.
  • Create and lay out designs for drill and blast patterns.
  • Insert, pack, and pour explosives, such as dynamite, ammonium nitrate, black powder, or slurries into blast holes; then shovel drill cuttings, admit water into boreholes, and tamp material to compact charges.
  • Mark patterns, locations, and depths of charge holes for drilling, and issue drilling instructions.
  • Measure depths of drilled blast holes, using weighted tape measures.
  • Set up and operate equipment such as hoists, jackhammers, and drills, in order to bore charge holes.
  • Set up and operate short-wave radio or field telephone equipment to transmit and receive blast information.
  • Signal crane operators to move equipment.

  • Drill holes in earth or rock.
  • Operate communications equipment or systems.
  • Operate cranes, hoists, or other moving or lifting equipment.
  • Operate detonation equipment.
  • Determine operational compliance with regulations or standards.
  • Monitor extraction operations.
  • Record operational or environmental data.
  • Select tools, equipment, or technologies for use in operations or projects.
  • Signal equipment operators to indicate proper equipment positioning.