General Information/Overview
Career Cluster: Architecture and Construction
Career Pathway: Construction
Job Description: Explosives workers place and detonate explosives for road or tunnel construction, to open veins of ore mines, or to demolish buildings for new construction projects.
Earnings: The Wisconsin entry level salary for an explosives worker is $34,750. The national entry level salary is $30,280.
Employment Stats: In 2010 349,100 people worked as explosives workers. In 2020 there is projected to be 431,000 explosives workers. This is because the population will grow which increases the need for construction and construction workers.
Related Occupations:
-Carpenters
-Boilermakers
Sources for More Info:
-Associated General Contractors of America
-National Center for Education and Research
Career Pathway: Construction
Job Description: Explosives workers place and detonate explosives for road or tunnel construction, to open veins of ore mines, or to demolish buildings for new construction projects.
Earnings: The Wisconsin entry level salary for an explosives worker is $34,750. The national entry level salary is $30,280.
Employment Stats: In 2010 349,100 people worked as explosives workers. In 2020 there is projected to be 431,000 explosives workers. This is because the population will grow which increases the need for construction and construction workers.
Related Occupations:
-Carpenters
-Boilermakers
Sources for More Info:
-Associated General Contractors of America
-National Center for Education and Research
Education & Training
High School Courses at D.C. Everest:
-Construction
-Physics
-CAD
-Advanced CAD
Post High School Education: College degrees are not required for Explosives workers, but are helpful. If college is wanted, some good colleges in Wisconsin are Milwaukee School of Engineering and North Central Technical College.
Advancement: Many experienced explosives workers contract their services to construction companies.
-Construction
-Physics
-CAD
-Advanced CAD
Post High School Education: College degrees are not required for Explosives workers, but are helpful. If college is wanted, some good colleges in Wisconsin are Milwaukee School of Engineering and North Central Technical College.
Advancement: Many experienced explosives workers contract their services to construction companies.
Nature of Work
Day-to-day Work: The day-to-day work of an explosives worker consists of ensuring the safety standards are met and checking to make sure equipment functions properly before blowing something up.
Working Conditions: The risk of injury is high for explosives workers, you never know when a charge might go off earlier or later than it should. Explosives workers also work irregular hours, not knowing when they will work prior to working.
Advantages and Disadvantages: A disadvantage to being an explosives worker is not knowing you are working before the job itself. Plans could have to be pushed aside because of a job that came up late. An advantage is getting to blow things up. Blowing things up is always fun.
Working Conditions: The risk of injury is high for explosives workers, you never know when a charge might go off earlier or later than it should. Explosives workers also work irregular hours, not knowing when they will work prior to working.
Advantages and Disadvantages: A disadvantage to being an explosives worker is not knowing you are working before the job itself. Plans could have to be pushed aside because of a job that came up late. An advantage is getting to blow things up. Blowing things up is always fun.
Opinion
I think that this could be a potential job for me. I think I would very much enjoy this job and would do it for quite a while. I do want to go to college though, and that is not required for this job.