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About the Role

Join an exciting company offering great benefits, challenging opportunities, and a supportive team environment. This role involves preparing and detonating blasts safely and successfully, ensuring compliance with safety and company policies, and coordinating customer relations.

Responsibilities

• Under direction or in position of Blaster in Charge, reviews drill patterns and diagrams, determines product and shot layout necessary to meet customer needs.
• Communicates blast details with all personnel on job site.
• Performs duties necessary to prepare and detonate a shot safely and successfully.
• Conducts pre/post Shot Safety Audits and documentation per Austin’s policy on all shot service events.
• Ensures the shot crew complies with customers’ policies/procedures.
• Coordinates the handling of all customer issues, blast area incidents, and/or public concerns related to the event with appropriate APC personnel.
• Communicates regularly with the sales representative and/or Location Manager regarding customer accounts.
• Maintains a safe and healthy work environment by assuring compliance at the location, at customer sites, and during transit as required by regulation and company policy.
• Complies with APC inventory management procedures.
• Completes and maintains necessary paperwork or software programs as required by company policies and procedures, Department of Transportation, or other federal or state agencies.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Must meet requirements of all state and federal explosive laws and qualify as an ATF explosive possessor.
• Ability to clearly communicate both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to audibly hear and respond to the work environment of an active mining site.
• Ability to work outside in all weather conditions.
• Loads and unloads 40-60 pound product bags or boxes from company trucks.
• Unloading may require repeatedly carrying product/boxes.

Skills

• Initiation systems
• Laser profiling
• Seismographs

Location

• Customer location within LLC’s geographic area

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 21+ years old

Education Level

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Current blaster's license as required by state

Benefits

• Great benefits

About the Company

• SINCE 1833, IMPROVING THE WORLD WE LIVE IN.
• Austin Powder has been making explosives for over 190 years and we take great pride in improving the world we live in.
• In 1833, the Austin family created the company to produce black powder that would help break the rock, mine the minerals and build the canals and railroads to develop the frontier.
• Initially along the banks of the Cuyahoga River near Akron, Ohio, we grew as the country grew.
• Today, Austin Powder is a world leader in the industrial explosives industry with a passionate commitment towards safety, a relentless customer focus, a family culture work environment, and a demonstration of respect of towards all.
• As in our early years, our mission continues to be to improve the world we live in through the safe and responsible use of explosives.
• Our success has been based on our core values and this has proven to be universally true around the globe as the company has expanded to be one of the leading providers of industrial explosives and blasting services in the world.

Equal Opportunity

• Austin Powder is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees.
• Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
• Austin Powder also participates in E-Verify.
• This contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a).
• These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, and for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing compensation.
• Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.