UXO Technician II

Responsibilities

• Performs reconnaissance and classification of UXO.
• Identifies U.S. and foreign guided missiles, bombs and bomb fuzes, projectiles and projectile fuzes, grenades and grenades fuzes rockets and rocket fuzes, land mines and associated components, pyrotechnics, military explosives, and demolition materials.
• Locates subsurface UXO using military and/or civilian magnetometers.
• Performs excavation procedures on buried UXO by manual means; mechanical means.
• Performs operator maintenance of military and/or civilian magnetometers.
• Locates surface UXO using visual means.
• Operates motor vehicle transporting.
• Prepares an on-site safe holding area for UXO.
• Performs storage of UXO and demolition materials.
• Prepares a UXO disposal site.
• Prepares non-electric firing system for a UXO disposal operation, electric firing system for a UXO disposal operation, and a detonating cord firing system.
• Disposes of UXO/explosives by burning or detonation.
• Operates a personnel decontamination station.
• Dons and doffs appropriate personal protective equipment in contaminated areas.
• Inspects salvage UXO-related material.
• Erects UXO-related protective works.
• Determines a magnetic azimuth using a lensatic compass.
• Performs field expedient identification procedures to ID explosive-contaminated soil.
• Performs emergency leak seal and packaging of chemical warfare material.
• Uses radiographic (x-ray) equipment.

Qualifications

Skills/Knowledge: Personnel who are trained as a UXO Technician II must demonstrate the requisite knowledge and ability to perform required tasks in compliance with applicable operational and explosive safety requirements which includes understanding the purpose, requirements and procedures for the following:

• Store explosive materials per applicable guidance, including preparing on-site holding areas to temporarily store and secure MEC or MPPEH, and other explosives (e.g., donor charges).
• Determine, using a variety of techniques (e.g., global positioning equipment, land navigation techniques), and record the location of subsurface anomalies, surface MEC and other material of interest in a field environment.
• Perform field-collection and -testing procedures to identify explosives-contaminated media or material (e.g., equipment used for the load-assemble-pack of military munitions).
• Inspect and document the explosives safety status of MPPEH.
• Supervise, as required, UXO-Technician I(s).

Education and Experience

To hold the UXO Technician II position personnel must possess one of the following combinations of education and experience:

• Be a graduate of a DoD Certified UXO T-I course with a minimum of 3 years of MEC experience with on-the-job training including, but not limited to, familiarity with the process, procedures, and equipment (e.g., geophysical) used for conducting MEC-related activities; or
• A graduate of a military EOD School of the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, or Australia with 1.5 years of combined EOD/MEC industry experience.

Candidates for a UXO Technician II must successfully complete:

• 40 hours of HAZWOPER training per 29 CFR 1910.120.
• 8 hour HAZWOPER training refresher, if applicable.
• Maintain annual HAZWOPER physical in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.120.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Must be able to perform physical activities, such as, but not limited to, lifting equipment (up to 50 lbs. unassisted), bending, standing, climbing or walking.
• Must be able to safely use manual tools and power equipment common in the construction trades.
• Must be able to handle hazardous materials safely and tolerate exposure to electrical hazards.