Job Description:

• 1) Performs any combination of following duties to aid in drilling of horizontal holes for installation of pipelines under highways, railroads, canals, and other obstructions: Lays foundation timbers for boring machine and places timber braces to hold machine in place.

• 2) Couples auger sections together and bolts sections to drive shaft.

• 3) Removes dirt from hole, using shovel.

• 4) Removes seepage water from boring machine pit, using portable sump.

• 5) May place props between hydraulic rams and end of casing pipe.

• 6) May hammer steel wedges into shaft collar to lock auger drive to ram yoke.

• 7) May weld sections of casing pipe together, using arc-welding equipment.