NOC 2021 · 73402 · TEER 3
Drillers and blasters - surface mining, quarrying and construction
Unit group 73402 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Drillers and blasters in surface mining, quarrying and construction operate mobile drilling machines to bore blast holes in open-pit mines and quarries and to bore holes for blasting and for building foundations at construction sites. Blasters in this unit group fill blast holes with explosives and detonate explosives to dislodge coal, ore and rock or to demolish structures. They are employed by mining, quarrying and construction companies and by drilling and blasting contractors.
Example job titles
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- air-track drill operator - construction
- blaster - quarrying
- blaster - surface mining
- blaster (except underground mining)
- construction blaster
- construction driller
- core drill operator - construction, surface mining and quarrying
- diamond drill operator - surface mining and quarrying
- driller - quarrying
- driller - surface mine
- driller - surface mining
- drilling machine operator - construction
- foundation drill operator
- foundation drill operator - construction
- open-pit blaster
- open-pit driller
- quarry driller
- rotary drilling machine operator
- rotary drilling machine operator - surface mining and quarrying
- seismic prospecting driller
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.