该小组履行以下部分或全部职责：

• 审查客户要求和建议的水井位置
• 操作水井钻机和其他设备，为住宅、商业和工业水井或环境评估钻孔、钻孔和挖掘，并安装井筛、套管和其他井具
• 记录遇到的地质构造
• 清洁和消毒水井以备使用
• 对水井钻机和设备进行日常机械维护工作
• 安装、测试、维护和修理水井泵、管道系统和设备，并进行泵送测试以评估水井性能
• 可提供其他钻井服务，例如维修或拆除现有水井结构、电梯井钻井和水电杆钻井。

• 通常需要完成中学学业。
• 通常需要完成两到三年的水井钻探学徒计划或两到三年的行业工作经验以及水井钻探的大学或行业课程，才有资格获得行业认证。
• 新不伦瑞克省、安大略省、萨斯喀彻温省、艾伯塔省和不列颠哥伦比亚省提供贸易认证，但属于自愿性质。

• 本单元组的各种钻井操作员之间的流动性是可能的。
• 随着经验的积累，可能晋升到主管职位。
• 水井钻工可能专注于特定的钻井方法，例如电缆、旋转、螺旋、锤击或反循环钻井。

• 司钻 - 地下采矿（在83100 地下生产和开发矿工中）
• 油气井钻工、服务人员、测试人员和相关工人 ( 83101)
• 钻孔机和爆破机 - 露天采矿、采石和建筑 ( 73402)
• 承包商和主管、重型设备操作人员 ( 72021)

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Review client requirements and proposed locations for water wells
• Operate water well drilling rigs and other equipment to drill, bore and dig for residential, commercial and industrial water wells or environmental assessment, and install well screens, casings and other well fixtures
• Document geological formations encountered
• Clean and disinfect wells in preparation for use
• Perform routine mechanical maintenance work on water well drilling rigs and equipment
• Install, test, maintain and repair water well pumps, piping systems and equipment and perform pumping tests to assess well performance
• May provide other drilling services, such as repair or dismantling of existing water well structure, elevator shaft drilling and hydro pole drilling.

• Completion of secondary school is usually required.
• Completion of a two- to three-year water well drilling apprenticeship program or two to three years of work experience in the trade combined with college or industry courses in water well drilling is usually required to be eligible for trade certification.
• Trade certification is available, but voluntary, in New Brunswick, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.

• Mobility is possible among the various well drilling operators in this unit group.
• Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.
• Water well drillers may specialize in a specific method of drilling, such as cable, rotary, auger, hammer or reverse circulation drilling.

• Driller - underground mining (in 83100 Underground production and development miners)
• Oil and gas well drillers, servicers, testers and related workers (83101)
• Drillers and blasters - surface mining, quarrying and construction (73402)
• Contractors and supervisors, heavy equipment operator crews (72021)