UXO Tech II

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AECOM is actively seeking a creative, highly talented UXO Technician II for employment on Guam.

In accordance with Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board Technical Paper 18 (DDESB TP-18), a UXO Technician II:

• Performs reconnaissance and classification of UXO. Identifies U.S. and foreign-guided missiles, bombs and bomb fuzes, projectiles and projectile fuzes, grenades and grenades fuzes, rockets and rocket fuzes, land mines and associated components, pyrotechnics, military explosives, and demolition materials. Locates subsurface UXO using military and/or civilian magnetometers.

• Performs excavation procedures on buried UXO by manual means and/or mechanical means.

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

• Locates surface UXO using visual means. Operates motor vehicle transporting UXO.

• Prepares an on-site safe holding area for UXO.

• Performs storage of UXO and demolition materials.

• Prepares a UXO disposal site.

• Prepares non-electric firing systems for UXO disposal operations, electric firing systems for UXO disposal operations, and detonating cord firing systems.

• Disposes of UXO and explosives by burning or detonation.

• Operates a personnel decontamination station.

• Dons and doffs appropriate PPE in contaminated areas.

• High school diploma + 2 years of experience and or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education

• Current driver’s license. The position requires using an AECOM provided vehicle and/or personal vehicle for AECOM company business.

• Pass pre-employment drug screen.

• Participate in and successfully complete a post-offer, pre-employment fitness for duty exam in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.120. This position is contingent upon passing a Fit for Duty exam by receiving a medically “qualified” fit for duty result letter indicating the employee is medically “qualified” to conduct work activities at the job site.

• 40-hour HAZWOPER

• Current 8-hour refresher (if applicable)

• Participate in annual company required training including 8-hour refresher training courses

In accordance with Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board Technical Paper 18 (DDESB TP-18), a UXO Technician II shall meet the following minimum qualifications:

• 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.

• On-the-job training including, but not limited to, familiarity with the process, procedures, and equipment (e.g., geophysical) used for conducting MEC-related activities.

• Military EOD school graduates: 1.5 years minimum total EOD and MEC experience.

• Accredited UXO School graduates: 3 years minimum MEC-related experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Explosive Ordnance Disposal certificate

• Prior MEC-related work experience in Guam

• Guam resident

• Sponsorship opportunities for US Employment Authorization are not available for this position.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
• This position will require a Motor Vehicle Record Screening.

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You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

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