Blaster

About the role

Assembles, plants, and detonates charges of industrial explosives to loosen earth, rock to facilitate removal by performing the following duties.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Performs pre-shift inspection
• Designs shots with the proper delays (electric, nonelectric) must know depth and spacing of individual benches
• Keeps records of all inventories (cast booster, detonators, nitrates, emulsions etc.)
• Finds scale distance, lbs/delay, power factors
• Must know how to deck a shot and how to load a presplit
• Keeps explosive truck in good working order, including cleaning out augers if necessary
• Greases all bearings in augers
• Operates the sequential board
• Posts blast site while shot is being loaded and attends site until shot is fired
• Drives explosive truck in a safe manner
• Never works with back to highwall and remains a safe distance from highwall
• Watches for changes in weather that could affect blasting. (Thunderstorms, high winds)
• Must follow all MSHA and Mulzer rules
• Supervises the blasting process and the activities of the blaster helpers

Qualifications

• Must be familiar with all aspects of blasting. (dos and don’ts)
• Education and/or Experience: Associates degree (A.A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or six months to one year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Language Skills: Ability to reach and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of employees of organization.
• Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to reach with hands and arms; use hands to finger, handle or feel; talk or hear; sit; stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop; kneel; crouch or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and /or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perceptions, and ability to adjust focus.
• Work Environment: The work environment characters described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to fumes or airborne particles, outside weather conditions, high, precarious places, vibration, toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

What CRH Offers You

• Hightly competitive base pay
• Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs
• Group retirement savings program
• Health and wellness programs
• An inclusive culture that values opportunity for growth, development, and internal promotion

About CRH

CRH has a long and proud heritage. We are a collection of hundreds of family businesses, regional companies and large enterprises that together form the CRH family. CRH operates in a decentralized, diversified structure that allows you to work in a small company environment while having the career opportunities of a large international organization.

What CRH Offers You

• Hightly competitive base pay
• Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs
• Group retirement savings program
• Health and wellness programs
• An inclusive culture that values opportunity for growth, development, and internal promotion

About CRH

CRH is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.