SCA-UXO Technician I (northwest Utah field location)

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Job Description:

Are you interested in making the world a safer place through your expertise and experience with unexploded ordnance (UXO)? If so, Parsons has an opportunity for you! We need your help with the reconnaissance, classification, and removal of UXO from affected communities.

The Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Technician will provide technical support and set standards for UXO personnel conducting ordnance response projects, perform reconnaissance, classification, disposing, transporting, storage of UXO complying with Federal, state and local laws, will perform risk-hazard analysis and maintenance and operator checks on all team equipment, and will plan and supervise range clearance operations.

The Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Technician I will perform the following tasks: assist in performing reconnaissance and classification of UXO identification of U.S. and foreign guided missiles, bombs and bomb fuses, projectiles and projectile fuses, grenades and grenade fuses, rockets and rocket fuses, land mines and associated components, pyrotechnic items, military explosives and demolition materials. Work also requires that the incumbent perform location of subsurface UXO using military and/or civilian magnetometers, assists in performing excavation procedures on buried UXO, perform operator maintenance of military and/or civilian magnetometers. This technician will locate surface UXO using visual means, and assist in the following: transporting and storing UXO and demolition materials, preparing non-electric firing system for an UXO disposal operation, and preparing electric firing system for an UXO disposal operation disposing of ammunition/ explosives by burning. This worker is responsible for disposing of ammunition/explosives by detonation, assisting in the operation of a personnel decontamination station, wear appropriate personal protective equipment in contaminated areas, and assist in the inspection of salvage UXO-related material and erection of UXO-related protective works.

Responsibilities

UXO Technician I duties:

(a) Investigate for and identify MEC and MPPEH, including explosive residues in media (e.g., soil), buildings, and installed equipment.

(b) Identify different types of military munitions, including identifying whether a military munition’s fuze is armed or unarmed.

(c) Excavate subsurface anomalies for identification.

(d) Move (e.g., consolidate) MEC within a munitions response site (MRS) or on an operational range after the UXOSO and SUXOS have jointly evaluated and documented the determination that the risk of movement is acceptable.

(e) Operate vehicles moving explosives or MPPEH on site. Individuals must be appropriately licensed for the class of vehicle being operated.

(f) Transport military munitions, commercial explosives, and MDEH that meets the criteria in Paragraphs 2.2.b.(1)(a) through (e) and has been determined safe for transport over public traffic routes (PTRs). Such munitions and explosives must be packaged in a manner that allows their safe transport and complies with Department of Transportation (DOT) and other applicable federal and State laws and DoD policies. Only UXO determined to be safe for transport by EOD personnel may be transported over a PTR.

(g) Prepare electric and non-electric firing systems.

(h) Set up decontamination stations and decontaminate CA-contaminated personnel, military munitions, and other material of interest (e.g., munitions debris, glass vials) in accordance with approved plans. Performing these functions may require additional training.

(i) Assist UXOQP in documenting the explosives safety status of MPPEH.

(j) Construct engineering controls (protective works).

Qualifications:

• Graduate of an accredited UXO Technician I school

***job location is Toelee County, Utah***

Security Clearance Requirement:

None

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

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