Blasting Engineer

Found in: Talent UK C2 - 2 weeks ago


Bardon Hill, United Kingdom BAM Nuttall Full time
Building a sustainable tomorrow

To assist in the day-to-day blasting operations at Bardonhill extension (Leicestershire), whilst maintaining the highest safety standards and working with the quarry regulations 1999, this will also include designing blasts, keeping accurate records, attending production meetings, production of activity plans and risk assessments, and maintaining a personal career development plan.

Your mission

You will be responsible for the following: 

  • Blast design, Face profiling, initiation sequence design, charging of blasts, and post-blast specifications.

  • Keep accurate records 

  • Supervision of the drilling team

  • Produce/Create activity plans and risk assessments

Who are we looking for?

Necessary:

  • Level 5 Diploma in Shotfiring Supervision

  • Level 5 Certificate in Blast Design

  • Level 3 Diploma in Shotfiring

  • Level 2 Certificate in Face Profiling

  • Full UK Driving Licence

 

Desirable:

  • Geotechnical training

  • Quarry Regulation awareness

  • Mineral Sector Safety Passport

  • Current MPQC Blasting Cards

What’s in it for you?
  • Competitive salary

  • A wide range of family-friendly policies

  • Company car/car allowance/travel allowance

  • 8 % matched pension contributions

  • Private healthcare

  • Life assurance

  • 26 days holiday

  • 2 wellbeing days

  • 1 volunteering day

  • Personal and professional development


BAM Nuttall is also committed to equality of opportunity in all its employment practices, and to developing policies that support work-life balance.

Who are we?

The art of building is about building for communities; it’s about building for life.

Where others stop, we go further, leading the way towards a sustainable tomorrow for us and future generations. As an industry leader, we raise the bar.

Our values: sustainable, inclusive, collaborative, reliable and ownership, enable us to achieve our ambitions. Today, tomorrow and every day.