Location: Upper East Region
Description:
Job Title: Blaster
Job Location: Bolgatanga, Upper East Region
Our client, a newly established stone quarry in Northern Ghana requires the services of a Blaster for immediate employment.
Responsibilities
- Assembles, plants and detonates explosive charges to loosen soil and rock
- Loads explosives in blast holes by hand or directs the movement of bulk
- explosives trucks to lead holes
- Determines quality, type and amount of explosives required
- Marks location and stakes out pattern of holes to be drilled
- Issues drilling instructions for depth and placement of blast holes
- Selects and arranges detonators to control the blast
- Assembles primer charges and blasting cap and places them with main
- explosive charges in drill holes
- Fills collar of drill hole with mud or clay and tamps
- Connects wires, detonating cord or fuses into series
- Directs helpers to place safety mat over charge to suppress rock fragments
- during blast
- Extends lead wires away from charge and tests electrical circuits with
- portable galvanometer
- Ensures that explosives and accessories are handled and stored in
- accordance with regulations
- Ensures that safety regulations are being observed and sounds horn, whistle
- or other signal for area to be cleared of workers and equipment
- Connects wires to blasting machine and pushes handle or button or lights
- fuse to detonate charge
- May be required to compile records of blasting and keep inventory of blasting
- agents on hand
- Supervises Powderman
Qualification and Requirement
- Must have unlimited surface Blaster’s Certificate
- Must have additional experience in rock blasting on large civil construction
- projects, including experience with sequential blasting
If you are qualified for this position, Send your CV to [email protected] or click http://www.jobberman.com.gh/job/7572/blaster-at-transcend-chartered-accountants/ to apply