UXO Safety Officer

AECOM is actively seeking a creative, highly talented UXO Safety Officer (UXOSO) for employment in Kuwait City. Qualified candidates must be available to start onboarding for this assignment on November 3rd, 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 UXOSO must be able to:Meet the criteria for and perform the functions of a UXO-TIII. Implement explosives and health and safety plans and programs in accordance with applicable DoD, federal, State, and local requirements. Ensure compliance with a DoD Military Service- and/or DDESB-approved site plans. Analyze the potential risks (e.g., operational, explosives safety, general safety) associated with MEC-related activities and develop and implement required mitigating measures. Verify compliance with site-specific explosives safety requirements, including:Enforcing personnel limits and explosives safety quantity distance (ESQD) arcs for explosive-related operations.Conducting, documenting, and reporting the daily results of safety inspections and verifying implementation of corrective actions.Engineering controls if used to reduce the open detonation minimum separation distanceHeavy equipment operations are conducted in accordance with manufacturer’s specifications. Make the final safety status determination of discovered MEC with the SUXOS.