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UXO Technician III

Amentum
Las Vegas, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Aug 2026
💰 $112,000/yr

About the role

Amentum is seeking a UXO Technician III for North of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Purpose and Scope: 

Provide technical oversight, support and sets standards for UXO and support personnel conducting range clearance operations including unexploded ordnance (UXO)-related operations.  Assigned tasks include ordnance response projects, performs reconnaissance, classification, disposing, transporting, and storage of UXO complying with Federal, state and local laws.

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Investigate for and identify MEC (Munitions and Explosives of Concern) and MPPEH (Material Potentially Presenting an Explosive Hazard), including explosive residues in media (soil, oil, etc.), on range, targets, target elements, buildings and installed equipment.

  • Identify different types of military munitions, including identifying whether a military munition’s fuse is armed or unarmed.

  • Perform on-site demilitarization of MEC, and handling of demolition materials.

  • Inspect munitions, munitions components, and targets for the presence of explosive hazards

  • Supervise personnel assisting in range clearances to ensure hazardous items are not inadvertently moved or removed.

  • Inspect MPPEH IAW DoDI 4140.62 to identify and remove MDEH before it can be declared MDAS.

  • Ensure compliance with a DoD Military Service- and / or DDESB-approved site

  • plans.

  • Supervise and perform on-site destruction or demilitarization of MEC in place or at a consolidated detonation site. This includes determining where and when it is safe to initiate

  • destruction and when engineering controls are required to mitigate the effects of a detonation.

  • Prepare explosives storage plan per all applicable guidance.

  • Prepare required UXO munitions response actions and/or range maintenance administrative reports.

  • Prepare standard operating procedures for on-site munitions responses and/or for range clearance activities.

  • Assist in the preparation of risk and hazards analyses.

  • Conduct daily site safety briefings.

  • Supervise the conduct of all on-site UXO-related operations.

  • Inspect and certify and/or verify MPPEH, as safe or as to the explosive hazard it may present for transfer within the Department of Defense or release from DoD control per current policies and standards.

  • Able to fully perform all UXOSP and for UXOTI and UXOTII functions.

  • Perform risk-hazard analysis, maintenance and operator checks on all team equipment.

  • Assist in performing reconnaissance and classification of UXO identification of US and foreign guided missiles, bombs and bomb fuses, grenades and grenade fuses, rockets and rocket fuses, land mines and associated components.

  • Locate subsurface UXO using military and/or civilian magnetometers.

  • Direct operator maintenance of military and/or civilian magnetometers.

  • Locate surface UXO using visual means and assist in transporting and storing UXO.

  • Responsible for demolition of materials, preparing non-electric firing system for al UXO disposal operation, preparing electric firing system for an UXO disposal operation and disposing of ammunition/explosives by burning.

  • Dispose of ammunition/explosives by assisting in the operation of personnel decontamination station.

  • Assist in the inspection of salvage UXO-related material and erection of UXO-related protective works.

  • Provide additional operational mission, test, and exercise support as required

  • May provide instructions or work direction to lower-level technicians. 

  • Perform all other position related duties as assigned or requested.

Minimum Position Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:

  • High school diploma or GED

  • 8 years of EOD/UXO experience

  • Prior military EOD and/or commercial UXO experience in munitions response actions or range clearance activities, as appropriate for the contracted operation plus specific project/explosives safety training.

  • Shall be a graduate of U.S. Naval School EOD and meet the requirements of the DoD Explosive Safety Board (Technical Paper-18).   

  • Completed 200 hours of training on MEC (Munitions and Explosives of Concern), and MPPEH (Material Potentially Presenting an Explosive Hazard).

  • Graduate of an OSHA-compliant (29 CFR 1910.120) 40-hour HAZWOPER course.

  • Graduate of an OSHA-compliant (29 CFR 1910.120(e)(4)) 8-hour Management and Supervisor Training course.

  • Must have completed a 10-hour OSHA Construction Safety and H

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