explosives engineer
Explosives engineers design drilling patterns and determine the amount of explosives required. They organise and supervise controlled blasts and report and investigate misfires. They manage explosives magazines.
Also called: ordnance engineer, munitions engineer, blasting engineer
- 16
- essential skills
- 6
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 2146
- ISCO-08 group
Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
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Essential skills
16- address problems critically
- chemistry
- decide quantity of explosives required
- electricity
- ensure compliance with safety legislation
- examine prospective blast area
- explosives
- geology
- handle explosives
- impact of geological factors on mining operations
- issue drilling instructions
- report misfires
- report outcome of blast
- safety engineering
- sequence explosions
- troubleshoot
Definition and skills from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Source concept
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