Munitions Inspector (Testing)

Duties

• Performs verification inspections on ammunition, rockets, missiles, mines, grenades, bulk high explosives, propellants and propelling, charges, fuses, primers, electro-explosive devices and experimental and non-standard ammunition.
• Maintains functionality of munitions by maintaining, troubleshooting, testing, and repairing solid propellant missiles.
• Performs ammunition tests using a wide range of gauges, torque wrenches, holding fixtures, testing devices and APE equipment.
• Performs inspections to ensure the transporting, packaging, and warehousing of munitions is compliant with established guidelines

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance.
• This position requires the completion of a pre-employment Physical Examination and an annual examination thereafter to ensure the continued, required level of physical health and ability or fitness to perform the duties of the position.
• This position is subject to a pre-employment screening, and random testing thereafter, to include testing based on reasonable suspicion and testing due to direct involvement with an on-duty accident.
• This position is subject to the provisions of the Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban (Lautenberg Amendment). Individuals convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence and certain others from possession or access to firearms or ammunition.
• This position has a requirement to lift up to 50 lbs.
• This position requires shift work to provide coverage on evenings, weekends, holidays, or special situations. Employee shifts are rotated on a regularly scheduled basis.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

There is no specific length of training or experience required. However, you must be able to demonstrate, through experience shown in your written application materials that you possess the sufficient knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the work of this position without more than normal supervision.

Minimum Qualifications (Screen Out Element): Ability to do the work of a(n) Munitions Inspector (Testing) without more than normal supervision. Experience performing common Munitions Inspector (Testing) duties which include conducting routine testing and inspection of conventional, improved conventional, missile and non-standard ammunition to determine quality, safety, and condition, comparing test results with established parameters to determine the structural integrity of missiles/components and inspecting vehicles to ensure transportation regulations are met. I work under supervision of a work leader or journey-level employee who reviews my work for completion. Failure to meet this Screen out Element will result in an ineligible rating.

• PHYSICAL EFFORT
  Work performance requires heavy lifting (50 lbs.), good eyesight, large amounts of walking {up to five miles) between test areas and inspection bays. Inspectors are required to bend, stoop, and stand for extended periods of time to work around the equipment during operations and troubleshooting activities.

• WORKING CONDITIONS
  Works both inside and outside with exposure to weather extremes. Exposed to dirt, grease, cleaning solvents, sharp metal strapping, high explosives, and propellants, bare boostering explosives, chemical smoke devices, flammable solids (i.e., WP, RP, powdered metals, etc.,) electrostatically initiated ammunition, materials sensitive to static sparks and nonstandard materials. Works in areas where hearing and eye protection is required. Work includes donning full protective clothing (Tyvek) when performing some testing. Operators subject to profuse perspiration and extreme fatigue when working in protective clothing. Operators are subject to injuries such as cuts, bruises and burns while performing equipment maintenance and troubleshooting. Operators are subject to broken bones and injuries from falls when working on elevated structures. Operators are required to wear fall protection harnesses in some situations.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Additional information

• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
• This position requires a 1 year probationary period during which the agency evaluates your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In making this determination, the agency may consider your performance and conduct; agency needs and interests; whether your continued employment supports organizational or Government goals; and whether it promotes the efficiency of the Federal service. Continued employment requires written certification that it advances the public interest.
• Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
• Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
• If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the information sheet.
• This is a Logistics Career Field position.
• Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
• Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
• Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest.
• About the Position: This position is located at Camp Stanley Storage Activity in Boerne, TX serving as a Munitions Inspector (Testing) performing rotational duties at various worksites servicing a variety of operations that conduct routine testing, inspection, and special inspections of conventional, improved conventional, missile and non-standard ammunition.