Providing integrated environmental, engineering, and construction services for complex projects.
The UXO Safety Officer develops a health and safety program and ensures compliance with all regulations and statutes. The UXO Safety Officer also must be able to perform the responsibilities of UXO Sweep Personnel and UXO Technicians I, II and III.
Expected Outcomes include developing and implementing an approved explosives and unexploded ordnance (UXO) health and safety program in compliance with Department of Defense policy and applicable federal, state, and local statutes, regulations, and codes. The officer analyzes operational risks, explosive hazards, and safety requirements, establishes site‑specific explosive operations safety requirements, and enforces personnel limits and safety exclusion zones for explosives‑related operations.
The role requires conducting, documenting, and reporting safety inspections to ensure compliance with explosives safety policies, standards, regulations, and codes, as well as operating and maintaining air‑monitoring equipment at sites with known or suspected airborne contaminants.
All protective work and equipment used within the exclusion zone must be operated in accordance with DoD policy, Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board approvals, and applicable federal, state, and local health and safety statutes, regulations, and codes.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: Requires a high school diploma plus eight years of experience in munitions response or range clearance activities, and graduation from a formal UXO training course or an EOD assistant or military EOD school in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, or Australia. Key abilities include deductive reasoning, performing general physical activities, identifying objects, actions, and events, operating detection and geophysical sensing equipment, active listening, and organizing, planning, and prioritizing work.