Drillers / Drill Operators
A Driller or Drill Operator operates machines used to drill in quarries, mines, or construction sites.
About this Career
Average Salary
£29,388New workers start at around £20,133. Normal pay is £29,388 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £44,705
Annual Openings
7Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons in London, and do not distinguish between full and part-time jobs
Daily Tasks
- Performs other mining and quarrying tasks not elsewhere classified including digging clay from open pits, operating high-pressure hoses to wash china clay from open pit faces and otherwise assisting miners.
- Operates agitators/vibrators to separate minerals and ensures that screened, filtered, crushed and separated material is discharged to appropriate chutes or conveyors.
- Conveys goods and materials to and from the workface, loads and unloads mine cars and transfers materials from underground and surface conveyors to bunkers, tubs and rail trucks.
- Operates heading, ripping and cutting-loading machines to remove material from working face and monitors conveyor carrying away loose material.
- Erects timber or metal supports to shore up tunnel and assists tunnel miner with the excavation of vertical shafts and underground tunnels.
- Assembles drilling and cutting tools, operates controls to start machines and to regulate the speed and pressure of cutting and drilling.
- Inspects blasting area, drills shot holes, inserts explosives and detonates charges to loosen large pieces of rock, coal or ore.
Skills Employers are looking for
| Skills | Importance |
|---|---|
| Critical Thinking | 58% |
| Active Learning | 57% |
| Learning Strategies | 56% |
| Monitoring | 56% |
| Active Listening | 56% |
| Speaking | 51% |
| Reading Comprehension | 50% |
| Mathematics | 49% |
| Writing | 40% |
| Science | 36% |