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

  • Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters

  • Ammunition and Explosives Handler
  • Demolition Worker
  • Dobie Worker
  • Explosives Worker
  • Mining Powder Crew Worker
  • Nitro Worker
  • Pillar Worker
  • Powder Worker
  • Ski and Snowboard Instructor
  • Tier and Detonator
  • Torpedo Worker
  • Tunnel Worker
  • Unexploded Ordnance Quality Control Worker

  • Assemble and position equipment, explosives, and blasting caps in holes at specified depths, or load perforating guns or torpedoes with explosives.
  • Connect electrical wire to primers, and cover charges or fill blast holes with clay, drill chips, sand, or other material.
  • Connect gun chambers to electric detonating devices, and operate controls at panelboards, in order to detonate charges in guns or to ignite chemical charges.
  • Document geological formations encountered during work.
  • Drive trucks to transport explosives and blasting equipment to blasting sites.
  • Obtain samples of earth from sidewalls of well boreholes, using electrically exploding devices.
  • Place safety cones around blast areas to alert other workers of danger zones, and signal workers as necessary to ensure that they clear blast sites prior to explosions.
  • Repair and service blasting, shooting, and automotive equipment, and electrical wiring and instruments, using hand tools.
  • 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.

  • Assemble products or production equipment.
  • Clean equipment or facilities.
  • Develop equipment or component configurations.
  • Drive trucks or truck-mounted equipment.
  • Load materials into construction equipment.
  • Maintain extraction or excavation equipment.
  • Measure work site dimensions.
  • Move materials, equipment, or supplies.
  • Operate communications equipment or systems.
  • Operate cranes, hoists, or other moving or lifting equipment.
  • Operate detonation equipment.
  • Order construction or extraction materials or equipment.
  • Position construction or extraction equipment.
  • Position safety or support equipment.
  • Remove debris or vegetation from work sites.
  • Select tools, equipment, or technologies for use in operations or projects.
  • Signal equipment operators to indicate proper equipment positioning.