Explosive Test Operator (2424) ATSS
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones.
We need to decide which sections to include. The posting includes:
- Job Description (under direction of more qualified personnel...). Could be "About the role" or "Job Description". The allowed headings list includes "About the role". So we can use
About the role
and put the description paragraph.
- Duties And Responsibilities: we can use Responsibilities
with a - list.
- Qualifications: we have "Qualifications Required Skills and Qualifications". Could be
Qualifications
with list.
- Physical Demands and Working Conditions: maybe "Physical Demands" but not in allowed list. Could be part of "Requirements"? Not exactly. Could be "Requirements" heading? The allowed list includes "Requirements". Could combine physical demands and terms of employment? But we need to preserve all substantive info. Could create a section "Physical Demands and Working Conditions" but not in allowed list; but rule says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It says e.g., not exclusive? It says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Likely they expect those headings only. So we should map content to those headings. If content doesn't fit, maybe we can still use a heading but they said e.g., meaning examples, not limited. However they say "Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." Could interpret that those are the allowed headings. Safer to stick to those.
Thus we need to map:
- About the role: job description paragraph.
- Responsibilities: duties and responsibilities list.
- Qualifications: qualifications list (including required skills, certifications, etc.)
- Benefits: pay and benefits info.
- Possibly Schedule? Not given.
- Skills? Could be part of Qualifications.
- Requirements? Could be terms of employment (citizenship, education, etc.) and physical demands.
We have Terms Of Employment And Eligibility Requirements (citizenship, diploma, driver's license, drug screening, background, security clearance). Also Physical Demands and Working Conditions.
We could combine those into a "Requirements" section.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Requirements, Benefits.
We need to ensure we don't create sections with filler. All have content.
Now we need to extract content precisely, preserving all substantive info, no invention.
Let's parse the posting.
Job Description paragraph:
"Under the direction of more qualified personnel, performs a variety of tasks associated with testing track or wheeled combat vehicles to include operating and maintaining vehicles, weapons, systems, and communication equipment while supporting firing programs and test missions, on and off test courses and firing ranges."
That's the only paragraph under Job Description.
Duties And Responsibilities: a long paragraph with many sentences, each seems a duty. We need to turn into list items. Must preserve all substantive info; we can split by sentences.
Let's list duties:
1. Provides technical advice and performs operations related to ammunition and high explosives
2. Applies concepts, policies, and guidelines contained in applicable SOPs/Risk Assessments to thoroughly inspect and/or modify foreign and/or domestic ammunition or explosives
3. Reviews available models, drawings, x-rays, and schematic diagrams prior to the modification of domestic or foreign ammunition/explosives
4. Formulates plans to modify ammunition safely and effectively for static detonation
5. Reviews test plans to ensure that all technical test requirements are met
6. Collects test data and prepares inspection reports on damage to munitions before and after rough handling, packaging, or transportation tests or munitions that have been fired and recovered for analysis tests
7. Prepares explosive charges for static detonation tests and employs series, parallel, and combination firing circuits to fire charges
8. Conducts searches of firing and recovery ranges for hazardous unexploded ordnance and other live and inert ammunition components
9. Collects unserviceable, deteriorated, and obsolete explosives and residue, ammunition and ammunition components from loading plants, test sites, and storage areas?
10. Prepares demolition pits, determines compatibility of items to be placed in pits for destruction, and engages in demolition operations by burning or detonation in accordance with Federal and State environmental regulations and permits
11. Equipment Operation and Maintenance: Operates, adjusts, sets up, and maintains locally fabricated and Ammunition Peculiar Equipment specialized for the mission, such as hydraulic presses, crimping machines, bullet pull machines, resizing presses, sewing machines, primer insertion/removal machines, spent brass sorting machines, band saws, torque machines and fuse assembly and disassembly machines
12. Operates heavy machinery directly or by remote control, from behind barricades or inside bomb proofs.
13. Uses a variety of hand tools and devices, such as portable propane burners, oxyacetylene torches, and equipment for residual propellant decontamination and demilitarization of tracers in projectiles.
14. Uses a variety of magnetometers to search for unexploded ordinance?
15. Satellite Accumulation Site(s) (SAS)/Temporary Storage Site (TSS)/Temporary Storage Disposal Facility (TSDF) Management: Assists in the management and disposal of Hazardous Waste Munitions (HWM) by ensuring compliance with requirements relative to receiving, labeling, marking, handling, storing, packaging, inventory, and record-keeping of HWM?
16. Performs mandated inspections of the SAS, TSS and the TSDF Open Burning/Open Detonation (OB/OD) as promulgated by Federal, State, DOD, and local regulations?
17. Incumbent may work in different areas to include ammunition, weapons, environmental conditioning, or ballistics
18. Provides full range of ammunition/explosives accountability functions, including physical inventories, data input/output, compatibility storage, research, ammunition warehousing, and similar functions?
19. Processes issue and turn-in of ammunition and explosive materials
20. Prepares JHAs and conducts/participates in HAWGs for ammunition processes and modifications?
21. Provides job related training to various audiences and conducts munitions related research
We need to keep the content exactly as given, but we can split into list items. Ensure we don't lose any detail.
Now Qualifications: "Required Skills and Qualifications" paragraph includes many bullet-like statements separated by line breaks? Let's extract:
- Shall possess and provide a Certificate of Completion from the Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal (NAVSCOLEOD)
- Sufficient number of UXO personnel qualified in accordance with Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) Technical Paper (TP) 18 to accomplish the UXO and MPPEH missions.
- Shall possess, within 9 months of employment: Ammunition Skill Level III Certification in accordance with ATC Regulation 350-8
- Explosive Test Operator Certification in accordance with ATC Regulation 350-7
- Shall possess a certification for Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) within 6 months of employment
- Shall possess a Class C Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) endorsed for Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) and unrestricted for air brakes
- Shall possess license to operate forklifts up to 25,000 pounds, backhoes, farm tractors, bulldozers, and other required support equipment
- Shall possess a clearance for unaccompanied access to Arms, Ammunition, and Explosives (AA&E) within 6 months of employment
- Shall be Respiratory Protection qualified, to include medical screening, fit checks, and Respiratory Protection Training
We need to keep each as list item.
Now Requirements (Terms Of Employment And Eligibility Requirements + Physical Demands and Working Conditions). Let's extract:
Terms Of Employment And Eligibility Requirements:
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Must possess a high school diploma or equivalent
- Must possess a valid driver's license, without special restrictions
- Must pass a pre-employment drug screening periodic retest
- Must be able to successfully complete a background screening
- Must possess or be able to obtain a security clearance prior to employment and maintain security clearance for the duration of employment
Physical Demands and Working Conditions:
- The work of this position is performed in the field where you are subject to the environment and sometimes in an environmentally controlled office environment
- Must be capable of lifting 105 pounds chest high unassisted repeatedly during the duty day
- Must be able to lift and transport 105 pounds unassisted over level ground for 50 feet
- Must be able to ascend and descend equipment
- Must be tolerant of frequent weapons systems firings
- Must not have color vision deficiency
- Must have good manual dexterity
- Must be able to wear appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for work tasks assigned
- Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the duties and responsibilities
We should keep these as list items under Requirements.
Now Benefits: Rate Of Pay/Benefits section:
- Hourly Rate: $58.03
- Benefits Information Our company offers a generous benefits package including 3.5 weeks of personal leave (accrued) and 11 paid holidays. This position is eligible for health, vision, and dental care with options for employee only, employee plus one, employee and children, and family coverage. As well as company provided Short-Term Disability, AD&D, Life Insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program. Other optional benefits include retirement plans through a 401(k) and Roth IRA, Dependent Care FSA, Healthcare FSA, HSA Accounts (only for applicable high deductible plans), Long-Term Disability, Critical Illness Insurance, Hospital Insurance, Accident Insurance, Identity Theft Insurance, and Legal Insurance.
We need to put Pay and Benefits maybe separate sections? Allowed headings include Pay, Benefits, Schedule. We have both Pay and Benefits. Could combine into Benefits section with pay included? But they said never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It states both. So we could have Pay
with the hourly rate, and Benefits
with the benefits description. Or combine into one Benefits section that includes pay. But better to follow allowed headings: Pay and Benefits separate.
Thus:
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. We need to decide which sections to include. The posting includes: - Job Description (under direction of more qualified personnel...). Could be "About the role" or "Job Description". The allowed headings list includes "About the role". So we can use
About the role
and put the description paragraph. - Duties And Responsibilities: we can useResponsibilities
with a- list.
- Qualifications: we have "Qualifications Required Skills and Qualifications". Could be
Qualifications
with list. - Physical Demands and Working Conditions: maybe "Physical Demands" but not in allowed list. Could be part of "Requirements"? Not exactly. Could be "Requirements" heading? The allowed list includes "Requirements". Could combine physical demands and terms of employment? But we need to preserve all substantive info. Could create a section "Physical Demands and Working Conditions" but not in allowed list; but rule says usefor section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It says e.g., not exclusive? It says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Likely they expect those headings only. So we should map content to those headings. If content doesn't fit, maybe we can still use a heading but they said e.g., meaning examples, not limited. However they say "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." Could interpret that those are the allowed headings. Safer to stick to those. Thus we need to map: - About the role: job description paragraph. - Responsibilities: duties and responsibilities list. - Qualifications: qualifications list (including required skills, certifications, etc.) - Benefits: pay and benefits info. - Possibly Schedule? Not given. - Skills? Could be part of Qualifications. - Requirements? Could be terms of employment (citizenship, education, etc.) and physical demands. We have Terms Of Employment And Eligibility Requirements (citizenship, diploma, driver's license, drug screening, background, security clearance). Also Physical Demands and Working Conditions. We could combine those into a "Requirements" section. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Requirements, Benefits. We need to ensure we don't create sections with filler. All have content. Now we need to extract content precisely, preserving all substantive info, no invention. Let's parse the posting. Job Description paragraph: "Under the direction of more qualified personnel, performs a variety of tasks associated with testing track or wheeled combat vehicles to include operating and maintaining vehicles, weapons, systems, and communication equipment while supporting firing programs and test missions, on and off test courses and firing ranges." That's the only paragraph under Job Description. Duties And Responsibilities: a long paragraph with many sentences, each seems a duty. We need to turn into list items. Must preserve all substantive info; we can split by sentences. Let's list duties: 1. Provides technical advice and performs operations related to ammunition and high explosives 2. Applies concepts, policies, and guidelines contained in applicable SOPs/Risk Assessments to thoroughly inspect and/or modify foreign and/or domestic ammunition or explosives 3. Reviews available models, drawings, x-rays, and schematic diagrams prior to the modification of domestic or foreign ammunition/explosives 4. Formulates plans to modify ammunition safely and effectively for static detonation 5. Reviews test plans to ensure that all technical test requirements are met 6. Collects test data and prepares inspection reports on damage to munitions before and after rough handling, packaging, or transportation tests or munitions that have been fired and recovered for analysis tests 7. Prepares explosive charges for static detonation tests and employs series, parallel, and combination firing circuits to fire charges 8. Conducts searches of firing and recovery ranges for hazardous unexploded ordnance and other live and inert ammunition components 9. Collects unserviceable, deteriorated, and obsolete explosives and residue, ammunition and ammunition components from loading plants, test sites, and storage areas? 10. Prepares demolition pits, determines compatibility of items to be placed in pits for destruction, and engages in demolition operations by burning or detonation in accordance with Federal and State environmental regulations and permits 11. Equipment Operation and Maintenance: Operates, adjusts, sets up, and maintains locally fabricated and Ammunition Peculiar Equipment specialized for the mission, such as hydraulic presses, crimping machines, bullet pull machines, resizing presses, sewing machines, primer insertion/removal machines, spent brass sorting machines, band saws, torque machines and fuse assembly and disassembly machines 12. Operates heavy machinery directly or by remote control, from behind barricades or inside bomb proofs. 13. Uses a variety of hand tools and devices, such as portable propane burners, oxyacetylene torches, and equipment for residual propellant decontamination and demilitarization of tracers in projectiles. 14. Uses a variety of magnetometers to search for unexploded ordinance? 15. Satellite Accumulation Site(s) (SAS)/Temporary Storage Site (TSS)/Temporary Storage Disposal Facility (TSDF) Management: Assists in the management and disposal of Hazardous Waste Munitions (HWM) by ensuring compliance with requirements relative to receiving, labeling, marking, handling, storing, packaging, inventory, and record-keeping of HWM? 16. Performs mandated inspections of the SAS, TSS and the TSDF Open Burning/Open Detonation (OB/OD) as promulgated by Federal, State, DOD, and local regulations? 17. Incumbent may work in different areas to include ammunition, weapons, environmental conditioning, or ballistics 18. Provides full range of ammunition/explosives accountability functions, including physical inventories, data input/output, compatibility storage, research, ammunition warehousing, and similar functions? 19. Processes issue and turn-in of ammunition and explosive materials 20. Prepares JHAs and conducts/participates in HAWGs for ammunition processes and modifications? 21. Provides job related training to various audiences and conducts munitions related research We need to keep the content exactly as given, but we can split into list items. Ensure we don't lose any detail. Now Qualifications: "Required Skills and Qualifications" paragraph includes many bullet-like statements separated by line breaks? Let's extract: - Shall possess and provide a Certificate of Completion from the Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal (NAVSCOLEOD) - Sufficient number of UXO personnel qualified in accordance with Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) Technical Paper (TP) 18 to accomplish the UXO and MPPEH missions. - Shall possess, within 9 months of employment: Ammunition Skill Level III Certification in accordance with ATC Regulation 350-8 - Explosive Test Operator Certification in accordance with ATC Regulation 350-7 - Shall possess a certification for Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) within 6 months of employment - Shall possess a Class C Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) endorsed for Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) and unrestricted for air brakes - Shall possess license to operate forklifts up to 25,000 pounds, backhoes, farm tractors, bulldozers, and other required support equipment - Shall possess a clearance for unaccompanied access to Arms, Ammunition, and Explosives (AA&E) within 6 months of employment - Shall be Respiratory Protection qualified, to include medical screening, fit checks, and Respiratory Protection Training We need to keep each as list item. Now Requirements (Terms Of Employment And Eligibility Requirements + Physical Demands and Working Conditions). Let's extract: Terms Of Employment And Eligibility Requirements: - Must be a U.S. Citizen - Must possess a high school diploma or equivalent - Must possess a valid driver's license, without special restrictions - Must pass a pre-employment drug screening periodic retest - Must be able to successfully complete a background screening - Must possess or be able to obtain a security clearance prior to employment and maintain security clearance for the duration of employment Physical Demands and Working Conditions: - The work of this position is performed in the field where you are subject to the environment and sometimes in an environmentally controlled office environment - Must be capable of lifting 105 pounds chest high unassisted repeatedly during the duty day - Must be able to lift and transport 105 pounds unassisted over level ground for 50 feet - Must be able to ascend and descend equipment - Must be tolerant of frequent weapons systems firings - Must not have color vision deficiency - Must have good manual dexterity - Must be able to wear appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for work tasks assigned - Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the duties and responsibilities We should keep these as list items under Requirements. Now Benefits: Rate Of Pay/Benefits section: - Hourly Rate: $58.03 - Benefits Information Our company offers a generous benefits package including 3.5 weeks of personal leave (accrued) and 11 paid holidays. This position is eligible for health, vision, and dental care with options for employee only, employee plus one, employee and children, and family coverage. As well as company provided Short-Term Disability, AD&D, Life Insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program. Other optional benefits include retirement plans through a 401(k) and Roth IRA, Dependent Care FSA, Healthcare FSA, HSA Accounts (only for applicable high deductible plans), Long-Term Disability, Critical Illness Insurance, Hospital Insurance, Accident Insurance, Identity Theft Insurance, and Legal Insurance. We need to put Pay and Benefits maybe separate sections? Allowed headings include Pay, Benefits, Schedule. We have both Pay and Benefits. Could combine into Benefits section with pay included? But they said never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It states both. So we could have
Pay
with the hourly rate, andBenefits
with the benefits description. Or combine into one Benefits section that includes pay. But better to follow allowed headings: Pay and Benefits separate. Thus: