Roustabout
Code 8113.6
Roustabouts maintain and repair oil field equipment and machinery using hand and power tools. They do general labor, such as cleaning, digging trenches, scraping and painting rig components.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- mechanics
Skills and competences
- adjust tightness of engine parts
- connect oil well heads
- inspect pipelines
- clear drill sites
- bolt engine parts
- make foundations for derricks
- guide cranes
- clean up spilled oil
- maintain pipe deck
- maintain oil field machinery
- supply rigging equipment
- perform drainage work
- transport pipes
Transversal competences
- work in drilling teams
- deal with pressure from unexpected circumstances
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences