Trades
Driller, construction
$45.00 hourly
Pay is above the local median for this work ($39.93 an hour; Job Bank, 2023–2024)
What the posting asks for
- 2 to 3 years' experience
- High school
- English
From the posting's details in Job Bank's open data. The full ad is on Job Bank.
Hours and terms
- 40 hours a week
- Full time, Term or contract
- In person
Usually needed for this kind of work
- Completion of secondary school is usually required.
- On-the-job training is provided.
- Experience as a heavy equipment operator may be required for drillers.
From Canada's occupation guide (OaSIS) for Drillers - surface mining, quarrying and construction (NOC 73402). It describes this kind of work in general, not this employer's ad.
What this work usually involves
- Drive and operate tracked or truck-mounted rotary drilling, 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
- Operate tracked or truck-mounted drill equipped with auger or other attachment to drill holes for building foundations or pilings
- May 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.
About the employer
- Industry: Construction
- Region: Lower Mainland–Southwest Region
Job Bank's search for this title and town usually shows this ad first.
From Job Bank.
