Job Responsibilities

• Dismantling, moving and assembling drilling rigs and auxiliary equipment
• Maintaining, adjusting, repairing and cleaning drilling rigs, hoisting and other machinery
• Preparing drilling fluid and checking the operation of pumps to ensure adequate circulation of fluid in drill pipes and wells
• Maintaining records of drilling and servicing operations
• Monitoring gauges and other indicators, listening to equipment to detect malfunctions and unusual well conditions, and determining the need to change drilling or equipment
• Supervising and train crew members
• Operating machines and tools to extract dust, cuttings and lost and broken drilling equipment from holes and wells
• Assembling and dismantling pipes, casings and drill heads, and replacing dysfunctional equipment
• Closing and sealing wells no longer in use
• Operating controls to lower and raise drill pipes and casings in and out of wells, regulate pressure in the well and control the speed of tools