UXO Technician I - III

EA Engineering, Science, and Technology • Hunt Valley, MD

309d

About The Position

We currently have an excellent opportunity for Unexploded Ordnance Technicians. Successful candidates will be graduates of one of the following schools or courses: The U.S. Army Bomb Disposal School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD; U.S. Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal School, Indian Head, MD; The EOD Assistant's Course, Redstone Arsenal, AL. The UXO Technician I will be a graduate of: EOD Assistant's Course at Eglin Air Force Base, FL; or a DOD certified equivalent course. UXO Technician III Candidates will have experience in MEC clearance operations and supervising personnel, and will have combined active duty military EOD, contractor UXO experience, must be able to fully perform all functions enumerated for UXO Sweep Personnel, UXO Technicians I and II. The UXO Technician III is required to perform the following functions: Supervising and performing on-site disposal of MEC; preparing explosives storage plans in accordance with all applicable guidance; preparing required MEC administrative reports; preparing SOPs for on-site MEC operations; performing risk hazard analyses; conducting daily site safety briefings; and supervising the conduct of all on-site evolutions directly related to MEC operations. UXO Technician II Candidates must be able to fully perform all functions enumerated for UXO Sweep Personnel and UXO Technician I. The UXO Technician II is required to perform the following functions: Properly storing MEC material in accordance with applicable guidance; identifying fuzes and determining fuze condition; determining a magnetic azimuth using current navigational/locating equipment; performing field expedient identification procedures to identify explosives contaminated soil; preparing an on-site holding area for MEC material; and operating modes of transportation for transporting MEC material, when appropriate. UXO Technician I Candidates can advance to the UXO Technician II category after combined active duty military and contractor UXO experience. The UXO Technician I assists fully qualified personnel (UXOTII and above) in the following functions: Conducting reconnaissance and classification of UXO and other MEC materials; identifying all munitions including bombs and bomb fuzes, guided missiles, projectiles and projectile fuzes, rockets and rocket fuzes, land mines and associated components, pyrotechnics items, military explosives and demolition materials, grenades and grenade fuzes, and sub munitions; locating subsurface MEC using military and civilian magnetometers and related equipment; performing excavation procedures on subsurface MEC; locating surface MEC by visual means; transporting MEC and demolition materials; preparing firing systems, both electric and non-electric, for destruction operations; operating Personnel Decontamination Stations; inspecting salvaged MEC related material and erection of MEC related protective works; and donning and doffing personal protective equipment.