UXO Technician II

AECOM
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Job Details

  • Location: Albuquerque, NM, 87101
  • Date Posted: 2022-09-19
  • Employment Type: Full Time
  • Category: Other
  • Req Number: 273882BR
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Job Summary
AECOM is actively seeking a creative, highly talented UXO Technician II for employment in New Mexico.

The responsibilities include but are not limited to:

a. Performs reconnaissance and classification of UXO. Identifies U.S. and foreign guided missiles, bombs and bomb fuzes, projectiles and projectile fuzes, grenades and grenade fuzes, rockets and rocket fuzes, land mines and associated components, pyrotechnics, military explosives, and demolition materials.

b. Locates subsurface UXO using military and/or civilian magnetometers or all-metals detectors.
  1. Performs excavation procedures on buried UXO by manual means; mechanical means.
  2. Performs operator maintenance of military and/or civilian magnetometers or all-metals detectors.
  3. Locates surface UXO using visual means.
  4. Operates motor vehicle transporting UXO.
  5. Prepares an on-site safe holding area for UXO.
  6. Performs storage of UXO and demolition materials.
  7. Prepares a UXO disposal site.
  8. Prepares non-electric firing system for a UXO disposal operation, electric firing system for a UXO disposal operation, and a detonating cord firing system.
  9. Disposes of UXO/explosives by burning or detonation.
  10. Operates a personnel decontamination station.
  11. Dons and doffs appropriate personal protective equipment in contaminated areas.

c. Inspects salvage UXO-related material.
  1. Erects UXO-related protective works.
  2. Determines a magnetic azimuth using a lensatic compass.
  3. Performs field expedient identification procedures to ID explosive-contaminated soil.
  4. Performs emergency leak seal and packaging of chemical warfare material.
  5. Uses radiographic (x-ray) equipment.

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

Minimum Requirements
  • High school diploma or GED equivalent
  • 2+ years of experience as a UXO tech
  • Position requires using an AECOM provided vehicle and/or personal vehicle for AECOM company business.
  • In accordance with Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board Technical Paper 18 (DDESB TP-18), a UXO Technician shall meet the following minimum requirements:
    • Graduate of a military EOD assistant course; or an accredited UXO technician training course; or military EOD school of the US, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, or Australia.
    • Minimum 1.5 years prior military EOD experience with at least 2 years prior MEC-related experience as defined by DDESB TP-18 in munitions response actions or range clearance activities, as appropriate for the contracted operation.
  • Candidate must possess a valid driver’s license.
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