About this role
Drillers' Assistants perform routine tasks in setting up, operating and dismantling drilling sites for extraction of oil, gas, mineral ore or water.
What you might do day-to-day in this job
Typical tasks for a Driller's Assistant include:
- working with an experienced driller sets up rig and drilling equipment
- directs assembly and disassembly of pipes, casings and drill headings and controls speed and force of drilling
- examines cores and cuttings to ascertain nature of strata
- caps well or regulates valves which control outflow of gas or oil
- attaches and detaches lifting equipment to lower or raise sections of drill pipe into or out of bore hole
- controls pumps which circulate mud through drilling equipment
- services pumps.
Courses that can lead to a career as a Driller's Assistant
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Learn practical, job-ready skills to start work in resources, construction or infrastructure projects.
- 6 months – 1 year
- Cost varies
- Financial help available
- No entry requirements
- Partially online
- Part-time may be available
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- Traineeship
- On-the-job training
- 1 year
- Cost varies
- Financial help available
- No entry requirements
- Partially online
- Part-time may be available
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- 6 months – 1 year
- Cost varies
- No entry requirements
- Partially online
- Part-time may be available