Unexploded Ordnance Technician I (UXO Tech I)

Unexploded Ordnance Technician

Unexploded Ordnance Technicians identify all types of discarded military munitions. They locate, extract, move, and consolidate any discarded military munitions. Unexploded Ordnance Technicians prepare firing systems, inspect materials to determine risks, and transport demolition materials.

Duties and responsibilities include :

• 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.
• Excavate subsurface UXO and DMM
• Move and / or consolidate UXO and DMM that has been determined acceptable for movement within a Munitions Response Site (MRS) or Munitions Response Area (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

Minimum Qualifications, Skills, and Educational Requirements

Acknowledgment : Selected candidate will be responsible for the satisfactory execution of these duties, responsibilities, and functions. Duties and responsibilities may change from time to time without these changes being specified in this job description and that this job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed when filling this position.

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