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Overview
Explosives engineers combine geology, chemistry, safety engineering and blast planning to prepare controlled detonations and investigate misfires.
In job descriptions, look for blast design, drilling instructions, explosive magazines, misfire reports, blast outcomes, prospective blast areas, staff supervision and strict safety procedures.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Explosives engineering is planned technical work before, during and after controlled blasts. The engineer studies the area, sets drilling instructions, calculates charges, supervises detonation activity and documents results or misfires.
Skills and specializations
Depth comes from explosives, geology, chemistry, electricity and safety engineering. Specialization can focus on mining, tunnelling, quarrying, blast design, magazine management or investigation of failed shots.
Salary context
Pay is best compared through blast complexity, site conditions, staff supervision, storage responsibility, emergency readiness and accountability for misfire reporting and blast outcomes.
Career paths
A path may start in mining or site engineering and move toward senior blast design, explosives magazine responsibility, site supervision, safety review or specialist investigation after incidents.
Good to know
Check whether the advert names the site type, blast area, drilling pattern work, explosive storage, reporting duties and who signs off the blast plan. Vague adverts are risky for this occupation.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific pay data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Site preparation
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include mine health and safety engineer, mine planning engineer and quarry engineer.
Explore this activitySupport activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction
This occupation may also occur in this activity. Other occupations there include petroleum engineer, drilling engineer and liquid fuel engineer.
Explore this activitySupport activities for other mining and quarrying
Another possibility is this activity. Other occupations there include drilling engineer, liquid fuel engineer and mining geotechnical engineer.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
09.1Support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction43.13Test drilling and boring43.12Site preparation09.9Support activities for other mining and quarrying
Alternative labels
Occupation group
Mining engineers, metallurgists and related professionals (2146)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/40b77b1b-6f9c-4d25-8b08-8b3cb0aaf7e7 |
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| ESCO code | 2146.3 |
| ISCO group | 2146 |
| Concept type | Occupation |