SCA-UXO Technician I (deploy to Guam)
About The Position
Parsons is seeking an Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Technician I to join our Federal Solutions team. This role involves making the world a safer place by providing expertise and experience with unexploded ordnance (UXO). The technician will support reconnaissance, classification, and removal of UXO from affected communities. This position requires providing technical support and setting standards for UXO personnel, performing reconnaissance, classification, disposing, transporting, and storing UXO in compliance with laws, conducting risk-hazard analysis, performing maintenance and operator checks on equipment, and planning and supervising range clearance operations. The role is located in Guam.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited UXO Technician I school
- Security Clearance Requirement: None
Responsibilities
- Assist in performing reconnaissance and classification of UXO.
- Identification of U.S. and foreign guided missiles, bombs and bomb fuses, projectiles and projectile fuses, grenades and grenade fuses, rockets and rocket fuses, land mines and associated components, pyrotechnic items, military explosives and demolition materials.
- Perform location of subsurface UXO using military and/or civilian magnetometers.
- Assist in performing excavation procedures on buried UXO.
- Perform operator maintenance of military and/or civilian magnetometers.
- Locate surface UXO using visual means.
- Assist in transporting and storing UXO and demolition materials.
- Assist in preparing non-electric firing system for an UXO disposal operation.
- Assist in preparing electric firing system for an UXO disposal operation.
- Dispose of ammunition/explosives by burning.
- Dispose of ammunition/explosives by detonation.
- Assist in the operation of a personnel decontamination station.
- Wear appropriate personal protective equipment in contaminated areas.
- Assist in the inspection of salvage UXO-related material and erection of UXO-related protective works.
- Investigate for and identify MEC and MPPEH, including explosive residues in media (e.g., soil), buildings, and installed equipment.
- Identify different types of military munitions, including identifying whether a military munition’s fuze is armed or unarmed.
- Excavate subsurface anomalies for identification.
- Move (e.g., consolidate) MEC within a munitions response site (MRS) or on an operational range after the UXOSO and SUXOS have jointly evaluated and documented the determination that the risk of movement is acceptable.
- Operate vehicles moving explosives or MPPEH on site. Individuals must be appropriately licensed for the class of vehicle being operated.
- Transport military munitions, commercial explosives, and MDEH that meets the criteria in Paragraphs 2.2.b.(1)(a) through (e) and has been determined safe for transport over public traffic routes (PTRs). Such munitions and explosives must be packaged in a manner that allows their safe transport and complies with Department of Transportation (DOT) and other applicable federal and State laws and DoD policies. Only UXO determined to be safe for transport by EOD personnel may be transported over a PTR.
- Prepare electric and non-electric firing systems.
- Set up decontamination stations and decontaminate CA-contaminated personnel, military munitions, and other material of interest (e.g., munitions debris, glass vials) in accordance with approved plans. Performing these functions may require additional training.
- Assist UXOQP in documenting the explosives safety status of MPPEH.
- Construct engineering controls (protective works).
Benefits
- Endless growth opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
