Senior Explosive Safety Specialist

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Apply explosive safety requirements to the handling, transportation, storage, integration, testing, and use of ammunition, explosives, energetic materials, warheads, fuzes, and munitions.
• Independently support and oversee complex explosive and energetic operations.
• Identify explosive hazards and develop practical risk controls for field, test, integration, and storage activities.
• Provide explosive safety guidance to engineering, test, manufacturing, flight operations, and field teams.
• Support ammunition and explosives handling, inventory accountability, magazine management, and storage operations.
• Support warhead, munition, fuze, and energetic component installation and integration activities.
• Support operations involving Electronic Safe and Arm Devices (ESADs), fuzing systems, initiation systems, and other safety-critical energetic components.
• Plan and execute logistics for complex domestic and international field operations, live-fire tests, flight tests, demonstrations, and deployments.

Job requirements

• Significant experience in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), explosive safety, ammunition and explosives operations, military ordnance, energetic systems, or a closely related discipline.
• Demonstrated knowledge of explosive safety principles, ammunition and explosives handling, and energetic operations.
• Experience supporting live-fire ranges, explosive testing, ordnance operations, weapons integration, or comparable energetic activities.
• Demonstrated experience independently planning and executing field operations, deployments, test activities, or comparable military operations.
• Experience coordinating personnel, equipment, transportation, schedules, facilities, and operational resources.
• Ability to integrate explosive safety requirements into field and deployment planning.
• Experience with ammunition storage, explosive magazines, and energetic inventory accountability.
• Ability to identify operational, logistical, and regulatory risks and determine when specialized subject matter expertise is required.