Deputy Manager - Drilling & Blasting - AAC Mining Executors Group - Bhilwara, Rajasthan
(2025-01)
- Supervise and coordinate all drilling, charging, and blasting operations, ensuring alignment with production schedules, design specifications, and safety standards.
- Develop and maintain shift rosters for drilling and blasting teams to ensure continuous operation with optimal manpower utilization.
- Enforce a strong safety culture through regular Tool Box Talks (TBTs), safety drives, incident investigations, and briefings on recent incidents and safety upgrades.
- Maintain accurate records of attendance, daily progress, explosive inventory, and site meterage for operational transparency and compliance tracking.
- Improve blast crew productivity by ensuring timely measurement of drilled holes, effective data sharing, and efficient material and resource handling.
- Monitor equipment condition and coordinate preventive maintenance to ensure reliability of drilling and blasting machinery.
- Manage explosive usage records, charging plans, drill designs, and statutory files in compliance with DGMS and other regulatory bodies.
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical or operational challenges in drilling and blasting activities to minimize delays and ensure production continuity.
Drill & Blast Engineer - AAC Mining Executors Group - Bhilwara, Rajasthan
(2020-01 - 2025-01)
- Monitor drilling operations and machines.
- Explain Drill pattern design to longhole drill operators
- Ensure charging blasting with high-tech explosives, such as emulsion and electronic detonators as per initiation designs for all blasts
- Optimize the drill & blast cycle according to ore requirement
- Discuss with planning team on short term planning and stope scheduling
- Develop positive and strong working relationship with the crew members
Graduate Mining Engineer - Barminco - Bhilwara, Rajasthan
(2019-01 - 2020-01)
- Implemented modernized safety practices in mining operation
- Planned shift operations, supervised and communicated status to shift crew to achieve daily targets
- Tested air to detect toxic gases and extended services to provide fresh air
- Used Microsoft Excel and Word to create database documents to maintain DSR & fleet summary
Mine Foreman Trainee - MOIL Limited - Nagpur, Maharashtra
(2018-01 - 2019-01)