Helpers--Extraction Worker Help extraction craft workers, such as earth drillers, blasters and explosives workers, derrick operators, and mining machine operators, by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include supplying equipment or cleaning work area.
Helpers--Extraction Worker is Also Know as
In different settings, Helpers--Extraction Worker is titled as
- Continuous Miner Operator Helper
- Driller Helper
- Driller's Assistant
- Longwall Machine Operator Helper
- Miner Helper
- Powderman
- Salt Miner
Education and Training of Helpers--Extraction Worker
Helpers--Extraction Worker is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Helpers--Extraction Worker
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
Education Required for Helpers--Extraction Worker
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Helpers--Extraction Worker
Training Required for Helpers--Extraction Worker
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Helpers--Extraction Worker in different industries are
- Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers
- Helpers--Production Workers
- Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas
- Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas
- Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
- Helpers--Carpenters
- Continuous Mining Machine Operators
- Helpers--Electricians
- Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons
- Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters
- Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
- Maintenance Workers, Machinery
- Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining
- Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand
- Roustabouts, Oil and Gas
- Machine Feeders and Offbearers
- Hoist and Winch Operators
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
- Dredge Operators
- Construction Laborers
What Do Helpers--Extraction Worker do?
- Repair and maintain automotive and drilling equipment, using hand tools.
- Observe and monitor equipment operation during the extraction process to detect any problems.
- Drive moving equipment to transport materials and parts to excavation sites.
- Clean up work areas and remove debris after extraction activities are complete.
- Organize materials to prepare for use.
- Provide assistance to extraction craft workers, such as earth drillers and derrick operators.
- Dismantle extracting and boring equipment used for excavation, using hand tools.
- Unload materials, devices, and machine parts, using hand tools.
- Load materials into well holes or into equipment, using hand tools.
- Signal workers to start geological material extraction or boring.
- Clean and prepare sites for excavation or boring.
- Set up and adjust equipment used to excavate geological materials.
- Collect and examine geological matter, using hand tools and testing devices.
- Dig trenches.
Qualities of Good Helpers--Extraction Worker
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Tools Used by Helpers--Extraction Worker
- Bell reamers
- Claw hammers
- Compact tracked excavators
- Core drill rigs
- Cutting machines
- Drilling mud tanks
- Electrical detonators
- Explosive blasting caps
- Field forklifts
- Four-wheel drive front end loaders
- Hand augers
- High pressure steam cleaners
- Hoisting equipment
- Hydraulic boring machines
- Hydraulic rams
- Longwall shears
- Lube guns
- Materials conveyors
- Mobile radios
- Mud rotary drills
- Multipurpose wrenches
- Personal computers
- Portable sump pumps
- Power rock coring drills
- Prying tools
- Raise drills
- Remote firing devices
- Rig mud pumps
- Shielded arc welding tools
- Spirit levels
- Truck-mounted derricks
- Utility trucks
Technology Skills required for Helpers--Extraction Worker
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- Google Docs
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Word