Assistant Driller

**Assistant Driller**

**Location: Wotton-under-Edge**

**Salary: £30,000 OTE + Progression**

**Overview**:
First Military Recruitment are currently seeking an Assistant Driller on behalf of one of our clients.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- The position would involve working throughout the UK on various sites, ranging from petroleum retail sites, through to refineries, factories, brownfield sites, construction sites, rail and road infrastructure, even back gardens.
- Work includes geo-environmental and geotechnical drilling, ground source heat pump/geothermal boreholes and water borehole drilling.
- The successful applicant will be working as an assistant to a lead operator or driller on numerous items of plant and equipment.

**Skills and Qualifications**:

- The willingness to work hard, in all weather conditions, often on testing sites and always whilst working as part of a team.
- A good understanding and experience of the drilling industry is preferred, however full training will be provided.
- Preferable but not essential is CSCS and C/C1 + E or B+E driving licences.
- A driving licence is essential.
- The ability to pass/provide a negative drugs screening is essential. Pre-employment drugs testing will be carried out, as will random and continual tests.

**Benefits**:

- The opportunity to travel the country, working as part of a successful and growing ground investigation company, on some very prestigious sites.
- The package includes a very competitive basic salary and great overtime rates payable after the first 9 hours of each shift, also included is a generous “staying away” allowance to take care of living expenses whilst away from home.
- Weekend and night shifts are often available but not essential and pay up to 3 times the standard salary.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £23,000.00-£30,000.00 per year

Work Location: On the road