Manufacturing
Driller
Key facts
This job is hiring in the United States; its exposure to AI is low. AI exposure: very low according to the ILO, low according to the BLS. Employment change in the United States by 2035: +1.6% (BLS).
The job
Well drillers and borers and related workers (ISCO 8113). Well drillers and borers and related workers position, assemble and operate drilling machinery and related equipment to sink wells, extract rock samples, liquids and gases, or for a variety of other purposes.
Page built from official classifications (ILO, ESCO); figures cover all the jobs grouped here.
48 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- borehole digger
- chainhand
- derrickhand
- drill operator
- drillers offsider
- drilling equipment operator
- drilling equipment technician
- drilling supervisor
- environmental driller
- gas transfer operator
- geotechnical driller
- oil and gas rigging technician
- oil field driller
- oil rig driller
- oil rig leasehand
- oil rig motorhand
- oil rig operator
- oil rig technician
- oil transfer operator
- pipe tender
- pipeline goods transfer operator
- pipeline pump operator
- pipeline tender
- pump tender
- pusher
- rig drill operator
- rig driller
- rig maintenance technicians
- rig manager
- roughneck
- roustabout
- surface driller
- TBM operator
- tool pusher
- toolpusher
- toolpushers
- tunnel boring machine operator
- tunneller
- tunnelling equipment operative
- tunnelling equipment operator
- tunnelling machine operator
- water borehole digger
- water borehole driller
- water well driller
- water well-digger
- waterwell driller
- well technician
- well-digger
Training
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Gauges
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Sources
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Generative AI and Jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposureInternational Labour Organization and NASK · May 2025 · large survey
- ESCO, European classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations (job titles and O*NET crosswalk)European Commission · version 1.2 · official statistics
- Jobs in 2030: projections by occupational family (summary table)Dares and France Stratégie · March 2022 · official statistics
- Labour needs survey (BMO) 2026France Travail · 2026 · large survey
- EURES report on labour shortages and surpluses 2025, annexEuropean Labour Authority · June 2026 · official statistics
Checked on 27 October 2026.