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Job Description

Place and detonate explosives to demolish structures or to loosen, remove, or displace earth, rock, or other materials. May perform specialized handling, storage, and accounting procedures. Includes seismograph shooters.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 47-5031.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 54,580.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 26.00
Currently, there are 6,310 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters”.

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Tasks for “Unexploded Ordnance Quality Control Officer”

Repair and service blasting, shooting, and automotive equipment, and electrical wiring and instruments, using hand tools.
Cut specified lengths of primacord and attach primers to cord ends.
Verify detonation of charges by observing control panels, or by listening for the sounds of blasts.
Drive trucks to transport explosives and blasting equipment to blasting sites.
Mark patterns, locations, and depths of charge holes for drilling, and issue drilling instructions.
Set up and operate equipment such as hoists, jackhammers, or drills, in order to bore charge holes.
Clean, gauge, and lubricate gun ports.
Examine blast areas to determine amounts and kinds of explosive charges needed and to ensure that safety laws are observed.
Obtain samples of earth from sidewalls of well boreholes, using electrically exploding devices.
Repair electrical instruments, using electricians' hand tools.
Compile and keep gun and explosives records in compliance with local and federal laws.
Insert waterproof sealers, bullets, and/or powder charges into guns, and screw gun ports back into place.
Connect gun chambers to electric detonating devices, and operate controls at panelboards, in order to detonate charges in guns or to ignite chemical charges.
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.
Maintain inventory levels, ordering new supplies as necessary.
Lower perforating guns into wells, using hoists; then use measuring devices and instrument panels to position guns in correct positions for taking samples.
Insert powder charges into chambers of sidewall sample-taking cylinders, and assemble cylinders, using special wrenches.
Set up and operate short-wave radio or field telephone equipment to transmit and receive blast information.
Connect electrical wire to primers, and cover charges or fill blast holes with clay, drill chips, sand, or other material.
Tie specified lengths of delaying fuses into patterns in order to time sequences of explosions.
Assemble and position equipment, explosives, and blasting caps in holes at specified depths, or load perforating guns or torpedoes with explosives.
Lay primacord between rows of charged blast holes, and tie cord into main lines to form blast patterns.
Signal hoist operators to lower torpedoes or sample-taking guns into wells and to raise equipment for sampling from blast holes after detonation.
Move and store inventories of explosives, loaded perforating guns, and other materials, according to established safety procedures.
Light fuses, drop detonating devices into wells or boreholes, or activate firing devices with plungers, dials, or buttons, in order to set off single or multiple blasts.
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.
Measure depths of drilled blast holes, using weighted tape measures.
Observe odometers, weight indicators, and instrument panels in trucks in order to position guns at predetermined points in wells.
Place explosive charges in holes or other spots; then detonate explosives to demolish structures or to loosen, remove, or displace earth, rock, or other materials.

Related Technology & Tools

Forklifts
Millivoltmeters
Padded gloves
Discharge hoses
Hand chisels
Wood wedges
Hand shears
Blast hole tubing
Weighted tape measures
Protective ear plugs
Instantaneous electrical detonators
Short period delay detonators
Plastic plugs
Tongue and groove pliers
Hacksaws
Personal computers
Digital micrometers
Explosive blasting caps
Dewatering pumps
Balance scales
Hard hats
Crescent wrenches
Digital wattmeters
Extension ladders
Protective safety glasses
Mobile radios
Surveyors leveling rods
Bore hole thermometers
Safety goggles
Day boxes
Ammonium nitrate fuel oil ANFO loaders
Right angle prisms
Meggers
Wire loop pullers
Resistance testers
Coated gloves
Clinometers
Longnose pliers
Fuse cutters
Wire cleaning brushes
Safety cones
Electrical circuit testers
Perforating capsule guns
Hydraulic pressure gauges
Precision tweezers
Pallet jacks
Galvanometers
Lowering hooks
Electronic shock tube initiators
Remote blasting systems
Hole savers
Conduit bending tools
Digital voltmeters
Fuse testers
Detonating cords
Spring scales
Non-electric delay detonators
Remote firing devices
Digital ohmmeters
Explosives time delay fuses
Wheeled wire dispensers
Plumb bobs
Loading poles
Explosives funnels
Grappling hooks
Pneumatic drilling equipment
Flashing warning lights
Equipment dollies
Shock tube detonators
Surface connector blocks
Depth measurement gauges
Digital ammeters
Seismic activity recorders
Explosives handling robots
Tractor-trailer trucks
Protective respirators
Warning sirens
Folding knives
Harpoon retrievers
Perforating casing guns
Safety harnesses
Long period delay detonators
Overhead cranes
Avalaunchers
Jackhammers
Blasthole drills
Fixed blade knives
Rubber mallets
Torpedo levels
Tie-down equipment
Stakebed trucks
Temperature data loggers
Hoisting equipment
Wire strippers
Test lamps
Ring gauges
Stake flags
Vernier calipers
Portable signal generators
End cutting pliers
Blasting cap crimpers
Portable air compressors
Laptop computers
Digital calculators
Safety fuses
Transport trucks
Insulated pliers
Laser rangefinders
Phillips head screwdrivers
Portable cranes
Blasting machines
Wire cutting tools
Non-contact voltage testers
Digital multimeters
Phase rotation meters
Electricians' knives
Tamping rods
Short-wave radios

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