# Occupational Health and Safety Ordnance Specialist

**Company**: The Boeing Company
**Location**: Hazelwood, MO
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $140,250 - $189,750
**Category**: Defence & Intelligence
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

The Occupational Health and Safety Ordnance Specialist will play a critical role in representing Boeing in ordnance-related regulatory revisions, ensuring compliance across more than 50 explosives sites, and providing expert guidance to 40+ Ordnance Safety Focals across the company.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as the company's technical authority on Arms, Ammunition and Explosive (AA&E) Safety

- Establish the enterprise technical strategy and governance for AA&E safety across all business units and programs

- Develop, approve, and maintain enterprise standards governing the manufacture, processing, handling, transportation, storage, integration, shipment, and disposal of energetic materials and devices

- Serve as the enterprise technical authority for the design, expansion, modernization, and commissioning of facilities supporting AA&E manufacturing and operations

- Establish AA&E Safety design criteria for new facilities, production lines, magazines, storage areas, and integration facilities

- Ensure facility and manufacturing process designs incorporate inherently safer design principles, risk reduction methodologies, and operational resilience

- Lead or provide technical oversight for Process Hazard Analyses (PHA), Process Hazard Reviews (PHR), Explosive Safety Site Plans (ESSP), Hazard Classification, Quantity-Distance (Q-D) analyses, and other explosive and process safety assessments

- Review explosive operating procedures, safety documentation, and risk acceptance packages

- Lead investigations of explosives incidents, near misses, and process anomalies, identifying root causes and ensuring effective corrective and preventive actions

- Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Facilities Engineering, Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), Global Real Estate & Facilities, to integrate AA&E Safety into products, processes, and facilities

- Monitor emerging technologies, evolving regulations, and industry best practices, incorporating them into company standards

- Represent the company during customer reviews, government audits, regulatory inspections, subcontractor inspections, Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) reviews, and industry technical working groups

- Domestic travel up to 25%

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree or higher in an engineering or science related field

- 10+ years of experience in weapons and missile systems

- 10+ years of experience with missile/aircraft production and maintenance and/or DoD explosives

- 5+ years of experience technical leadership

Preferred Qualifications:

- Active or obtainable DoD Secret Clearance

- Experience with solid rocket motors, CADs/PADs and commercial aircraft explosive parts, energetic material manufacturing, missile production or all-up-round (AUR) integration

- Experience with explosive safety analysis and risk management

- Experience with facility design for energetic manufacturing and storage operations

- Experience leading the AA&E Safety and process safety aspects of new facility design, facility expansion, or major modernization projects involving energetic materials

- Experience establishing enterprise technical standards, influence executive decision-making, and guide capital investment strategies

- Experience with DoD 4145.26, DoD Ammunition and Explosives Safety Standards, Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) requirements and applicable Technical Papers (including Quantity-Distance criteria and facility design guidance), OSHA Process Safety Management (29 CFR 1910.119) or Department of Transportation hazardous materials regulations

- Experience with OSHA, NFPA, ATF, EPA, and other federal, state, and local regulations governing energetic materials, firearm and explosive operations

Benefits:

- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities

- Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work

## Skills

### Required
- Arms, Ammunition and Explosive (AA&E) Safety
- Process Hazard Analyses (PHA)
- Explosive Safety Site Plans (ESSP)
- Quantity-Distance (Q-D) analyses
- OSHA Process Safety Management
- Department of Transportation hazardous materials regulations

### Nice to have
- DoD 4145.26
- DoD Ammunition and Explosives Safety Standards
- Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) requirements
- OSHA
- NFPA
- ATF
- EPA

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