Overview
AECOM is actively seeking a creative, highly talented UXO Technician II for employment in Kuwait City. Qualified candidates must be available to start onboarding for this assignment on November 3, 2025. Deployment to Kuwait will happen shortly after that. This will require completion of pre-hire support activities (drug screen, background check, etc) by mid-October 2025.
In accordance with Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board Technical Paper 18 (DDESB TP-18), a UXO Technician II :
Responsibilities
- 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.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
High school diploma + 2 years of experience and / or demonstrated equivalency of experience and / or educationCurrent driver's license. The position requires using an AECOM provided vehicle and / or personal vehicle for AECOM company business.Valid US Passport that doesn't expire until 11 / 2026Pass 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 HAZWOPERCurrent 8-hour refresher (if applicable)Participate in annual company required training including 8-hour refresher training coursesDue to the nature of this project, US Citizenship is requiredAdditional 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 familiarity with the process, procedures, and equipment (e.g., geophysical) used for 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
Explosive Ordnance Disposal certificateAdditional Information
Relocation assistance is not available for this position, however, travel and per diem will be providedThis position will require a Motor Vehicle Record Screening.Offered rate of compensation will be based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. The range for this position is $49 to $50 per hour.
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