Overview

Job Description Job Description 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. Duties and Responsibilities Provides technical advice and performs operations related to ammunition and high explosives Applies concepts, policies, and guidelines contained in applicable SOPs/Risk Assessments to thoroughly inspect and/or modify foreign and/or domestic ammunition or explosives Reviews available models, drawings, x-rays, and schematic diagrams prior to the modification of domestic or foreign ammunition/explosives Formulates plans to modify ammunition safely and effectively for static detonation Reviews test plans to ensure that all technical test requirements are met 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 Prepares explosive charges for static detonation tests and employs series, parallel, and combination firing circuits to fire charges Conducts searches of firing and recovery ranges for hazardous unexploded ordnance and other live and inert ammunition components Collects unserviceable, deteriorated, and obsolete explosives and residue, ammunition and ammunition components from loading plants, test sites, and storage areas? 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 permitsEquipment 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 Operates heavy machinery directly or by remote control, from behind barricades or inside bomb proofs. 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. Uses a variety of magnetometers to search for unexploded ordinance? 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? 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? Incumbent may work in different areas to include ammunition, weapons, environmental conditioning, or ballistics Provides full range of ammunition/explosives accountability functions, including physical inventories, data input/output, compatibility storage, research, ammunition warehousing, and similar functions? Processes issue and turn-in of ammunition and explosive materials Prepares JHAs and conducts/participates in HAWGs for ammunition processes and modifications? Provides job related training to various audiences and conducts munitions related research Qualifications Required Skills and Qualifications 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.