Blaster Training Specialist

at  Dyno Nobel

JOB BRIEF

The Blaster Training Specialist designs and delivers training for blasters, ensuring safety compliance and workforce development while leveraging technical expertise and regulatory knowledge.

WHO WE ARE

Dyno Nobel is a global leader in the commercial explosives industry. We provide innovative blasting solutions and quality explosives products throughout North America, Australia and selected customers in the Asia Pacific.
Join us in everything that’s great about Dyno Nobel: OUR culture, OUR values, OUR commitment to safety and most importantly our PEOPLE. This combination makes Dyno Nobel a terrific place to work.
Dyno Nobel is a subsidiary of Australian based Incitec Pivot Limited. IPL’s 4500 employees also manufacture and market industrial chemicals and fertilizer products & services to customers around the world.

This is a full-time salaried position dedicated to training and development of blasters and other field-based employees at all stages (new hires, employees requiring retraining, employees seeking to deepen their knowledge and technical skills). This position requires exceptional communication and organizational skills as well as technical knowledge/background in related fields.
This role covers territories across Canada East, Central, and the Maritimes, including Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Ontario, with regular travel required to support training initiatives in these regions.

As the Blaster Training Specialist, you will deliver comprehensive training programs for blasters while ensuring compliance with Dyno Nobel’s safety standards and regulatory requirements across Canada East. Other duties will include:

• Assist in the development and delivery of training programs for blasters and blasters apprentices and helpers, which will combine classroom and on the job segments.
• Develop training schedules by coordinating with regional managers and the blaster assessment program already in place.
• Coordinate with local blast supervisors and blasters to choose adequate training sites for field training opportunities.
• Develop a deep knowledge of regional blasting regulations and understand that blasters will be coming from other jurisdictions, which may require specialized training.
• Become expert with all products currently offered for use in commercial explosives operations and be able to relay that understanding to trainees.
• Assist on incident investigations to determine the root cause of a blasting incident and help implement corrective actions through training and/or coaching and development.
• Teach the importance of good product management on the bench and the methods for good inventory maintenance, control, and housekeeping.
• Be able to potentially train individuals in other regulatory requirements (TDG, Explosives Act, Bulk Regulations, WHIMIS) and provincially (OH&S)
• Potentially offer customer training as well if required.
• Ensure that all training is tracked in appropriate databases
• Ensuring that company policies, safe work practices, hazard analysis, and standard operating procedures are up-to-date and followed by the trainees.