Unexploded Ordnance Technician (UXO)

Job title: Unexploded Ordnance Technician (UXO)

About the Role Unexploded Ordnance Technicians identify discarded military munitions and determine risks. They locate, extract, move, and consolidate UXO and discarded munitions, prepare firing systems for demolition, inspect materials for hazards, and transport materials as required.

What You'll Do

• Perform clearance sweep personnel functions
• Reconnoiter and classify UXO and DMM; identify all types of munitions, including possible fuzzes and their condition, armed or unarmed
• Examples include: Projectiles, Rockets, Land mines and associated components, Pyrotechnic items, Military explosives and demolition materials, Grenades
• Excavate subsurface UXO and DMM; Move and/or consolidate UXO and DMM that has been determined acceptable for movement within a MRS or MRA, but not over public traffic routes
• Transport demolition materials, UXO and DMM that have been determined safe for transport over public traffic routes, when required
• Prepare firing systems, both electric and non-electric, for demilitarization operations
• Assist in inspections of Material Potentially Presenting an explosive hazard; Construct UXO-related protective works
• Other assigned duties

What We're Looking For

• Graduate of a qualified explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) school. As an exception, a UXO I may be a graduate of a qualified UXO school, per DDESB TP18
• Current 40-Hour HAZWOPER certification IAW 29 CFR 1910.120
• Current 29 CFR 1910.120 HAZWOPER
• Physical ability to work outside normal work hours at short notice as dictated by work load
• Ability to work away from primary work location in excess of normal work day
• Ability to travel outside the US
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from supervisors
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus
• Valid Driver's License & clean driving record