Senior Blasting Technician

**Overview**:
**_ Role impacts:_**
- Customer satisfaction
- Save environment.
- Operations
- Blast Designs

**Key Relationships**:

- Senior Management/Management
- Customers
- Support Teams
- Operations
- Any other stakeholder as may be deemed important and relevant from time to time.

**Qualifications**:

- Matric (Grade 12)
- Academy of Explosives Technology (AET1)
- Academy of Explosives Technology (AET Advance)
- Competency B
- Blasting Engineering Certificate
- Bachelor's degree in Mining

**Experience**:

- 3 years demonstrated experience in Mining/ Explosives Enviroment
- 2 years demonstrated experience in AXXIS mining technology
- 2 years demonstrated experience in people management

**Duties**:
**Technical Support**:

- To provide technical support and advice to the operations and clients about the implementation of training on blasts
- Build and maintain good internal and external customer relationships
- Monitoring of equipment and analysing the performance thereof

**Prevented/mitigated company risks**:

- To assist with all the relevant training and risk management documentation
- Ensuring compliance with Mine Health and Safety Act and adherence to stipulated disciplines for continuous improvement of
- Occupational Safety, Health, Environment, Risk and Quality that impact on the organisation
- Promoting a safety conscious culture and ensuring adherence to all legislation

**Blast Quality Reviews**:

- Conduct and evaluate blast results using databases, instrumentation, blasting software’s (e.g BME BlastMap software)
- Write blast writing as per requirements

**Job Competencies**:

- Business Acumen
- Customer Focus
- Timely Decision Making
- Functional Technical Skills
- Integrity and Trust
- Problem Solving
- Drive for Results

**Job Related Skills**
- Intermediate skills in Ms Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)
- Technical skills in blast designs
- Research capability and skill
- Ability to analyse scientific data

**General**: