Unexploded Ordnance Technician (UXO)

Job title: Unexploded Ordnance Technician (UXO)

About the Role Unexploded Ordnance Technicians identify all types of discarded military munitions. They locate, extract, move, and consolidate any discarded military munitions. This role supports MEC (UXO) programs in Waimanalo, Hawaii.

What You'll Do

• Perform clearance sweep personnel functions
• Reconnoiter and classify UXO and Discarded Military Munitions (DMM); identify all types of military munitions, including possible fuzzes and their condition, armed or unarmed
• Examples of these munitions 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 workload
• 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