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Boart Longyear

What is the best part of working at the company?
Everything!! From the training online, on the floor, hands on training. Experience of knowledge is amazing to have in your background. The people you work with are some of the best technicians that care about bringing correct spectra to Clients in Mines all over the world. 
Working with the state of the art XRF technology allows you to be an addition to a greater calling within yourself.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Stressful only when the TruScan trailer acts up. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Amazing! Can't wait to return. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Exchange notes with other shift, get yourself a coffee, stretch, start up truscan trailer and prep core boxes and start scanning up too 80 Meyers and maybe more if you can.

boart longyear is a good place for drillers to get started. the training is very good and  you can move up in drilling quickly. unfortunately there isnt much oppertunity to get much higher than that. the wages are pretty good. the benefits  are very good.most of the work force gets along very well and the company has a good reputation. the work is hard but worth the money. the companies biggest concern is safety which is a good thing. i have been working for boart longyear for eight years and counting and in that time have received  a fair amount of training. i feel  though that in order to advance my career now it will have to be at a different company. it is a shame but there isn't much more room for advancement. there is a good safety culture there and a good group of people ther. for this reason i would tell anyone to apply to the company

We go down on a cage in a Gold mine,To 6400ft I am incharge of transporting men to thier drills.And we start drilling for core samples which hopefully contain gold.During the drilling process you learn alot about Ground conditions and have to know whats going on in your drill hole as your rods turn.Management or shift bosses are most likely ex drillers to which you can call apon for certain tasks or situations that they can help you with.You have a partner to which you are to over see he is your helper on the drill,The hardest part of the job would be,heat stress as it is very hot at 6400 ft.The most enjoyable part of the job is that you and your partner come up to surface every day safe and alive.

Responding to the emails, requests for cost updates, and other issues, running different reports for the inventory and cost variance accounts,analysing and communicating with the persons in charge to fix the problems.

I learned the Oracle software, the Answer reporting system and first of all the company's culture.

The management team was very close and continuesly in contact with us for every issue to find the right way or solution.

With co- workers it was a good working and social relationship.

The hardest part of the job it was the physical inventory in the warehouses.

The most enjoyable part of the job was inventing new ways to capture the cost for non standard jobs or repars in the field.

1. Analysis and investigate claims from our customers, compose internal reports for our engineering/manufacturing department; compose formal reports for our sales department and customers. Provide technical support and problem solving for Manufacturing Department.
2. I learned quality assurance, 5S, lean manufacturing, 8D, 5 Why, Mining drill operation, Mining products.
3. Very good management system
4. My colleagues are very friendly, we supot each other at work, we go fishing, hunting or skiing after work.
5. We don't have much information from customer about how they used our products and what happened while the product failed. So that make our difficult to investigate the Root Cause of the Failure.
6. Our customer is satisfied with our Root Cause Report.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Career was in QC management was brutal,lots of wasted money,through lack of experience in management, especially QC

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Shift work they wouldn't give you preferred shift even if co worker offer it

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Absolutely brutal,people mostly miserable and unhappy,

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressful and bad hygiene in shop,would have to keep an eye on smoke leaks from heat treatment as they wouldn't fix it until you complained,also turning off fresh air return in winter

Good company ONLY if you are a driller or a helper. Otherwise you should pass. No job security at all. Laid off 2500 people in the last year and kept some that made no sense at all. Do a web search and see for yourself.

co-workers are nice people but zone and SLC senior and regional management has no respect for employees or department managers or supervisors. dont bother tring to take a day off because they will call you on weekend and vacation and expect you to answer

Other zones may be better but eastern canada is not well run or a good place to work. clearly the reason i left

What is the best part of working at the company?
The benefit package is acceptable 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The most stressful thing was constantly being lied to and manipulated by management. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Constantly changing sites, changing schedules, changing managers, never getting into a good routine to enable a good life. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A typical day was filled with made up situations; fixing things that were purposely broken for me to fix. I dreaded everyday.

Working at Boart Longyear is very productive, safe and career enriching. They have a very high if not excellent safety culture and a great commitment to meeting the targets and specifications of their clients.  There is constant reviews of safety protocols and standard working procedures to always measure up to changing trends as well as keep zero harm target.  Their collaboration and opportunities given to persons from local communities from which they operate is worth commending.
One of their high points is the systems put in place to train its own drillers over time.

Always giving the patience of my employees and shown the right way to do things. This company is great If you're looking to move up and feel like you really earned it, my Forman at the mine in marathon Ontario was probably the best Forman I have had in all my life. When stuff was needed it was there within an hour or the next day depending on what shift you worked. Over all I loved the company sad I had to go due to personal issues. One day I hope to return as a driller and not a lead hand. 

Top Job Titles	Average salary
Driller 175 salaries reported	$34.49 per hour
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Mechanic 27 salaries reported	$42.90 per hour
Heavy equipment mechanic 25 salaries reported	$40.49 per hour
Blaster 23 salaries reported	$29.61 per hour

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