Explosive ordnance technician vs explosives engineer

Differences between explosive ordnance technician and explosives engineer duties and responsibilities

Explosive ordnance technician example responsibilities.

• Lead a team of marines in the arming, troubleshooting, launching, and receiving of twelve F/A-18 jets.
• Specialize in proper ordnance placement and detonation to accomplish goals such as demolition and excavation.
• Work with a team to safely remove hazardous unexplode ordnance and materials, using GPS and metal detectors.
• Operate EM61mk2, RTK, RTS, and other survey grade GPS.
• Work with a variety of PPE.
• Conduct daily sustatainment training with assign EDD.
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Explosives engineer example responsibilities.

• Blast rail freight cars with steel grit to achieve require blast profile per paint specifications or customer's request.
• Require to know and follow OHSA, MSHA, ATF and state/Federal regulations.
• Compile post blast report for ATF, MSHA to insure blasting guidelines are met.
• Train personnel to perform basic demolition, mine clearing, combat construction operations, and treat wound soldiers.
• Stabilize rock walls and slopes using rock bolts, split sets and blasting techniques for CDOT and various mines.
• Operate and monitor light and heavy engineer combat vehicles and heavy equipment.
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