Job Description:

• 1) Operates truck-mounted hoisting equipment and electrical control panel to position and explode charges in oil or gas wells to pierce drill pipes, casings, tubings, and fracture earth formations: Assembles tools and equipment at well site, using handtools.

• 2) Lowers perforating gun into well, using hoist.

• 3) Observes odometer, weight indicator, and instrument panel in truck, and positions gun at predetermined point in well.

• 4) Moves controls at panelboard to detonate charge in gun which propels bullets through wall of bore to pierce or fracture oil- or gas-bearing formations, or to ignite chemical charge which burns fissures in rock formations for passage of oil or processing fluid, such as mud or cement.

• 5) Observes instrument on control panel to verify detonation of charge in gun.

• 6) Repairs electrical instruments, using electrician's handtools.

• 7) Loads perforating guns at well site for special shots.