Job Description:
Persons required to operate drilling units, mounted on truck or crawler track, to drill holes for foundations: Raises and lowers boom to specified angle for drilling. Swings boom, controls hoist drums, raises and lowers drill, hoists drill bit, casing, and reinforcement steel into position, and controls rotary table that the drives drill.
Duties:
- Operate tracked or truck-mounted drill equipped with auger or other attachment to drill holes for various applications
- Ensure that safety procedures are observed
- Follow written and verbal instructions pertaining to job site preparation and work procedures
- Read and understand foundation/shoring plans
- Observe pressure gauge and move throttles and levers in order to control the speed of rotary tables, and to regulate pressure of tools at bottoms of boreholes.
- Monitor progress of drilling operations, and select and change drill bits according to the nature of strata.
- Maintain and adjust machinery in order to ensure proper performance
- Work setting: outdoors, noisy and dusty
- Must be familiar with large diameter drilling, and mechanically inclined is a must
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and work well with others. Be able to perform other duties if needed while on project site in the spirit of "team work".
- Willingness to travel in performing drilling work for short periods throughout the State; with physical ability sufficient to perform the essential daily duties of the job
Certificate Requirements:
Class B Driver License (for touch drill applications), with clean MVR; Applicants for positions in this class are required to pass a drug screening test.
Education Requirements:
High School
Experience Requirements:
1 year min experience as a foundation drill operator; Knowledge with the use of various drills such as, Soilmec, Mait, Lodril, Watson, Spiradrill, and TesCar. Ability to operate and do maintenance and mechanical work on these is an advantage as well as knowing how to operate in differing subsurface conditions.
Salary Range:
Negotiable
