Driller – Barrick Gold Corporation

Responsibilities 

• Accurately drill a series of Blast Holes to a design pattern using a Sandvik DI650i DTH drill rig.
•  Read and accurately follow mine instruction plans with skill and precision ensuring holes are drilled to design line, gradient and profile.
• Communicate with surveyors, geologists, and engineers to optimize drill patterns and meters.
• Set up and troubleshoot on Blast Hole Drill rigs, specifically on the Sandvik DI650i DTH rigs.
• Comply with relevant Mines Safety and Inspection Act and Regulations
• Must carry out standard workplace inspection practices and procedures and prepare the areas for drilling, charging, or scraping in accordance with mine safety procedures.
• Compliance with Standards using relevant information and individual judgment to evaluate and determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, and Barrick standards and procedures.
• Participation in all applicable safety, prestart and shift team meetings
• Compliance to all applicable mine safe work procedures / safe operating procedures.
• Training, Coaching, and development: Identifying the educational or training needs of others and suggest to the supervisor. Coaching and helping team members to improve their knowledge/ skills.
• Ensure tramming and set up times for the drill rig is optimal.
• Ensure that Delays due to RDT change out are minimized.
• Efficient and correct application of the drill rig to maximize productivity.
• To be pro-active in all aspects of operational safety and encourage teamwork across departments and sections.
• Ensure efficient utilization of resources; Drill machines, drill bits, hammers, Water truck etc. and ensure NO abuse.
• Report breakdowns, equipment damages, safety near misses, incidents and accidents according to the laid-out procedures including completing the Shift report at the end of each shift.
• Participate and support Succession Planning within the Mining Team to ensure progressive development of Tanzanian employees to assume positions of increasing accountability.
• To be pro-active in all aspects of operational safety, efficient utilization of the resources, Continuous Improvement ideas and Projects; and encourage teamwork across the departments.
• Deputies for Drilling Supervisor as required.
•  Any other duties that may be assigned to fulfil the overall business objective.
• Closely monitoring the progress of trainees through training reports and discussions with department managers and taking appropriate action to ensure that participants achieve the required standard of competency in a safe and cost-efficient manner.
• Any other duties deemed appropriate by the Drill Supervisor

Qualification requirements

• Secondary School Certificate / Vocational Training/ Apprenticeship in a related field / college program in heavy equipment operation
• Hold a valid driver’s license.
• Heavy Mobile equipment operation skills.
• Mines Health & Safety Act Awareness
• Minimum of one-year recent experience in RC or large diameter DTH drilling.
• DTH and RC Drilling operations
• Bits and other RDT selection and performance
• Equipment parts and components identification
• Pass Aptitude test and Dover test.
• Consistent demonstration of Barrick Core Values
• Strong conceptual thinking ability

Experience and competencies needed.

• Previous experience working as a Blast Hole Driller DTH
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in the Underground Mining Industry.