UXO Technician III - Team Leader

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Fort A.P. Hill, VA ()

Job Type

Temporary

Tanaq Federal Services, LLC (TFS) is an Alaskan-village owned small business, certified under the U.S. SBA 8(a) program. TFS delivers professional support services, engineering and project management, facilities Operations & Maintenance (O&M), airfield support services, military munitions site management, and logistics support services to federal agencies and the Department of Defense. TFS is a subsidiary of the St. George Tanaq Corporation, an Alaskan Native Corporation (ANC) committed to serving Federal customers while also giving back to the Alaskan native community and shareholders.

Tanaq is seeking a UXO Technician III - Team Leader to provide UXO support to a Vegetation and Target Management Services project at Fort Anderson-Pinn-Hill (A.P. Hill), VA. The areas requiring target removal/replacement are anticipated to have known or suspected Munitions and Explosives of Concern (MEC) and Material Potentially Presenting an Explosive Hazard (MPPEH) contaminated (i.e., medium to high MEC risk).

Accordingly, the team will employ the use of robotic technologies for target removal/replacement unless site conditions (i.e., excessively steep grades, adverse soil conditions, etc.) preclude the use of such technologies. The removed targets will be transported to an area for inspection and final disposition. This is a temporary, 100% onsite position in Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. This position is contingent on contract award.

• Supervise UXO team members during all field activities on a day‑to‑day basis.
• Work closely with the UXOSO/QCS to ensure inspections and corrective actions are implemented in accordance with the QASP.
• Ensure Anomaly Avoidance techniques are implemented for team activities, including surveying and mapping, environmental and natural resource assessments, surface and subsurface sampling, boring and drilling, groundwater monitoring, installation of signs and fences, etc.
• Perform an initial MEC safety assessment along with UXOSO/QCS to ensure the movement of targets from the target position did not increase the potential explosive safety hazards to site personnel performing work after the target was removed from the target position. This includes performing a visual inspection of/over the target in attempt to identify any MEC/MPPEH that could become dislodged and then relocate or reposition to another location within the target.
• Coordinate activities with robotic operators in cooperation with the SUXOS and oversee UXO technicians' activities (traveling downrange, attaching cables and winch from dozer/trailer to target, retreating to safe location outside of K328 distance; after lock‑out‑tag‑out procedure is completed, travel again downrange and inspect underside of target, determine that it is "acceptable to move", again retreat to safe location outside of K328).
• After removing the targets to designated staging area, inspect the targets as Material Documented as Safe (MDAS).
• If required, lead team to dismantle the targets to a size appropriate for placing them into a lockable receptacle and/or flatbed truck and arrange for transport to a scrap metal recycler for disposal as scrap.
• Supervise replacement of targets safely and effectively at to‑be determined locations within the DIA using unmanned, and remotely operated, mechanized equipment and for the NON‑DIA target insertion will be completed using manned mechanized equipment.
• Perform Munitions of Explosives Concern (MEC) reconnaissance of UXO as needed. Although the potential for MEC is primarily a concern within the live fire complex, it is possible to encounter MEC in areas outside the live fire complex.
• Establish non‑MEC work areas outside of the exclusion zone(s) for the Munition with the Greatest Fragmentation Distance (MGFD). UXO personnel will perform a magnetometer‑assisted walkover search to locate any MEC/MPPEH in proposed work area(s). Mark any surface MEC/MPPEH encountered in these areas for avoidance, notify the Range Control of the discovery and…