2.3 KiB
2.3 KiB
Competences — explosives engineer
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/40b77b1b-6f9c-4d25-8b08-8b3cb0aaf7e7).
Essential
- address problems critically (skill/competence)
- chemistry (knowledge)
- decide quantity of explosives required (skill/competence)
- electricity (knowledge)
- ensure compliance with safety legislation (skill/competence)
- examine prospective blast area (skill/competence)
- explosives (knowledge)
- geology (knowledge)
- handle explosives (skill/competence)
- impact of geological factors on mining operations (knowledge)
- issue drilling instructions (skill/competence)
- report misfires (skill/competence)
- report outcome of blast (skill/competence)
- safety engineering (knowledge)
- sequence explosions (skill/competence)
- troubleshoot (skill/competence)
Optional
- mine safety legislation (knowledge)
- mining engineering (knowledge)
- present reports (skill/competence)
- safely detonate explosives (skill/competence)
- signal for explosion (skill/competence)
- supervise staff (skill/competence)
Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 19 ads, as of 2026-07-11)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
Hard skills
- demilitarization — 26 %
- demolition — 26 %
- procurement strategy analysis — 21 %
- quality assurance — 21 %
- quality assurance coordination — 16 %
- quality control — 16 %
- hazard analysis — 16 %
- munitions engineering — 16 %
- blast design — 16 %
- cost management — 16 %
- decontamination — 16 %
- environmental compliance — 16 %
- explosive processing — 16 %
- safety compliance — 16 %
- technical reporting — 16 %
- technical support — 16 %
Methods
- standard operating procedures (SOPs) — 16 %
- work review forms (WRFs) — 16 %
Responsibilities
- report preparation — 21 %
- operations support — 16 %
- planning support — 16 %
- process document creation — 16 %
- explosives management — 16 %
- document compilation — 16 %
- documentation preparation — 16 %
- acquisition support — 16 %
- tunnel production planning — 16 %