Blaster at Transcend Chartered Accountants

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
  1. Assembles, plants and detonates explosive charges to loosen soil and rock
  2. Loads explosives in blast holes by hand or directs the movement of bulk
  3. explosives trucks to lead holes
  4. Determines quality, type and amount of explosives required
  5. Marks location and stakes out pattern of holes to be drilled
  6. Issues drilling instructions for depth and placement of blast holes
  7. Selects and arranges detonators to control the blast
  8. Assembles primer charges and blasting cap and places them with main
  9. explosive charges in drill holes
  10. Fills collar of drill hole with mud or clay and tamps
  11. Connects wires, detonating cord or fuses into series
  12. Directs helpers to place safety mat over charge to suppress rock fragments
  13. during blast
  14. Extends lead wires away from charge and tests electrical circuits with
  15. portable galvanometer
  16. Ensures that explosives and accessories are handled and stored in
  17. accordance with regulations
  18. Ensures that safety regulations are being observed and sounds horn, whistle
  19. or other signal for area to be cleared of workers and equipment
  20. Connects wires to blasting machine and pushes handle or button or lights
  21. fuse to detonate charge
  22. May be required to compile records of blasting and keep inventory of blasting
  23. agents on hand
  24. Supervises Powderman
Qualification and Requirement
  1. Must have unlimited surface Blaster’s Certificate
  2. Must have additional experience in rock blasting on large civil construction
  3. 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