Ordnance Equipment Mechanic

Headquarters, Air Force Reserve Command•Hill AFB, UT

10d

About The Position

This is an Air Reserve Technician (ART) enlisted position. ARTs are regular career civil service employees who also maintain membership in the assigned Air Force Reserve unit and participate in unit training, typically one weekend per month. The incumbent’s regular assignments are primarily ART duties, though non-ART duties may also be assigned and generally will not exceed 30 percent of total responsibilities. The work schedule is aligned to allow participation in Unit Training Assemblies. The position performs ordnance equipment mechanic work across duty sections within a munitions storage area. Work includes maintaining, inspecting, repairing, testing, handling, transporting, storing, and accounting for precision-guided and conventional munitions, weapons systems, support equipment, and related assets. The incumbent may plan and carry out assignments independently, train personnel, and support munitions operations and readiness. The work is performed in shop areas and outdoors, including in confined or hard-to-reach spaces and near explosive components. It involves physical exertion and exposure to weather, noise, potential injuries, and hazardous substances. The employee must maintain required certifications and security clearance, is subject to random drug testing, and may need to travel on temporary duty. A valid state or commercial driver’s license with hazardous materials endorsement may be required.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship is required.
Must be a current Air Force Reserve member or willing and qualified to join, and must meet and maintain Air Force Reserve requirements.
Must be able to perform ordnance equipment mechanic work without normal supervision; this is the screen-out element.
Must demonstrate the knowledge and skill needed for the position under the OPM WG-6600 Armament Work Family qualification standard; quality of experience is emphasized over length of experience.
Knowledge of ordnance maintenance, explosive safety, security, inspection, storage, accountability, transportation rules, practices, procedures, and policies.
Knowledge of methods for troubleshooting, repairing, rebuilding, testing, and installing aircraft, demolition, and base-defense ordnance systems and complex weapon systems.
Ability to operate automated and manual computer systems, including ASPR, AMST, MIS, TMRS, AF MC2, JHCS, and WEBFLIS.
Ability to read and independently interpret technical orders, manuals, blueprints, schematic drawings, manufacturers’ manuals, and maintenance bulletins, and to use shop mathematics and handbook formulas.
Skill using standard hand and power tools for electronics and electro-mechanical trades and applying general maintenance and repair practices.
Ability to work independently and make judgments and decisions related to accepted maintenance shop practices and procedures.
Ability to plan and perform work, and to train personnel in the Combat Munitions Training program.
Knowledge of configuration changes and deviations from standard work practices to achieve dimensional accuracy, system performance, or equipment reliability.
Ability to plan repair sequences and complete modifications, repairs, and installation of ordnance in the SRAN inventory.
Ability to meet and maintain the position’s required security clearance and certifications.
Must be eligible to perform duties under the Lautenberg Amendment; a qualifying domestic-violence conviction bars performance of the position’s duties.
May be required to obtain and maintain a valid state or commercial driver’s license with hazardous materials endorsement.
Must be able to meet the physical and environmental demands, including lifting, pushing, pulling, and carrying items weighing 50 to 100 pounds and working near explosive components and hazardous substances.
Males must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable.

Responsibilities

Install, modify, overhaul, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair precision-guided munitions and complete missile and ordnance systems, including support and test equipment.
Conduct surveillance inspections of munitions stock, issued and returned munitions, residue, and Munitions Potentially Presenting Explosives Hazard (MPPEH); determine serviceability, hazards, and accountability.
Assemble and disassemble conventional munitions; perform maintenance, testing, and repair; and handle and transport ammunition, rockets, weapons, countermeasures, demolition material, and other ordnance.
Manage munitions accountability, transactions, allocations, stock levels, inventories, requisitions, and disposition.
Warehouse munitions stocks and maintain storage-area infrastructure, facilities, vehicles, and equipment.
Store, handle, and transport ordnance for line delivery.
Inspect and certify the serviceability of armament and munitions support equipment.
Plan, coordinate, direct, and control munitions activities as a munitions controller or in combat plans and mobility functions.
Perform overhaul, final alignment, modifications, testing, and technical-order compliance actions on all-up rounds, complex weapon systems, support equipment, and subassemblies.
Plan, organize, and conduct Combat Munitions Training, including developing lesson plans and scheduling or conducting specialized training.
Troubleshoot and maintain assigned munitions material-handling equipment; safely operate applicable light and heavy machinery and vehicles.
Work assignments using technical references, appropriate tools, equipment, and materials, and exercise independent judgment within provided instructions.