Blasting Assistant - Delmas at Canyon Coal

Skills & Qualifications

• Grade 12
• Valid blasting assistant certificate
• Driver’s license code 10
• Be able to acquire medical certificate of fitness.
• Knowledge of opencast mining
• Medical fitness certificate
• Good communications skills
• Must be able to read and write.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Staking of holes to be drilled according to the blaster’s specifications.
• Measuring holes in the presence of the blaster.
• Assist the blaster in priming.
• Assisting the blaster in preparation of primers and suspension of the pre-split.
• Stemming holes in conjunction with blaster.
• Report any defects on checklists to blaster.
• Assist the blaster by spooling out cables.
• Take any lawful and reasonable instructions from the Supervisor or Foreman.
• Guarding against inadvertent entry to location where the blaster is taking place.
• Connecting up of blasting rounds or circuits.
• Offloading explosives and accessories into bench storage boxes
• Removing all breakable mine property from the vicinity of the blasting site (Block clean up)

Experience

• Previous relevant experience
• Experience in a mining environment is an added advantage.