Arms, Ammunition, and Explosives Manager

• Serve as the company's highest-level technical authority on energetic safety.

• Establish the enterprise technical strategy and governance for energetic 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.

• Provide technical oversight for operations involving:

• Serve as the enterprise technical authority for the design, expansion, modernization, and commissioning of facilities supporting energetic manufacturing and operations.

• Establish explosive safety design criteria for new facilities, production lines, magazines, storage areas, and integration facilities.

• Review and approve facility layouts, equipment installations, process modifications, and capital projects to ensure compliance with explosive safety and process safety requirements.

• 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.

• Establish enterprise requirements for explosive operating limits, magazine operations, facility siting, lightning protection, fire protection, blast mitigation, and personnel protection.

• Review and approve explosive operating procedures, safety documentation, and risk acceptance packages.

• Lead investigations of energetic 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), Strategic Real Estate, and the Lethality organization to integrate energetic safety into products, processes, and facilities.

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

• Mentor engineers, Chief Engineers, Fellows, and technical leaders while developing the next generation of energetic safety experts.

• Represent the company during customer reviews, government audits, regulatory inspections, DDESB reviews, and industry technical working groups.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS 

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Materials Science, Safety Engineering, Explosives Engineering, or a related technical discipline..

• Minimum of 20 years of progressively responsible experience involving energetic materials, rocket propulsion, missile systems, explosive manufacturing, or defense production operations.

• Recognized industry expert in energetic safety with demonstrated enterprise-level technical leadership across complex aerospace or defense programs.

• Extensive experience with:

• Solid rocket motors

• Composite and double-base propellants

• Energetic material manufacturing

• Missile production and all-up-round (AUR) integration

• Explosive safety analysis and risk management

• Facility design for energetic manufacturing and storage operations

• Demonstrated experience leading the explosive safety and process safety aspects of new facility design, facility expansion, or major modernization projects involving energetic materials

• Expert knowledge of:

• 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)

• Department of Transportation hazardous materials regulations

• OSHA, NFPA, ATF, EPA, and other federal, state, and local regulations governing energetic materials and explosive operations.

• Demonstrated ability to establish enterprise technical standards, influence executive decision-making, and guide capital investment strategies.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting to executive leadership, customers, regulatory agencies, and government organizations

• Active or obtainable DoD Secret Clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS 

• High energy individual who craves the opportunity to build a system vs just manage one.

• Natural tendency towards challenging the status quo to find new and novel ways to improve EHS management systems.

• A person who leans into challenges instead of saying 'no' and walking away.

• Willingness to travel (50%)