Occupational Health and Safety Ordnance Specialist Job Hazelwood Missouri USA,Engineering

Occupational Health and Safety Ordnance Specialist Company:
The Boeing Company

Boeing’s Enterprise Environment Health and Safety (EHS) organization’s Workplace Safety team is currently looking for an Occupational Health and Safety Ordnance Specialist in Hazelwood, MO.

This role plays 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. The specialist’s expertise is essential to evaluating and approving new explosives sites, enabling the safe and compliant expansion of Boeing’s defense capabilities and supporting potential opportunities for multi-billion-dollar defense contracts.

The position also plays a key role in supporting the timely resolution and closure of DCMA Corrective Action Requests (CARs).

Position 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%

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

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
Up to 25% domestic travel

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

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…