Explosive Safety Lead - RMS

The role

You will serve as the primary technical authority for explosives safety at the McHenry Rocket Motor Systems facility. You will develop site plans, perform quantity-distance analyses, and implement compliant safety solutions for manufacturing and operations.

What you will do

• Serve as the primary technical resource for explosives-safety questions and regulatory interpretation.
• Develop and maintain explosives safety site plans, quantity-distance analyses, and facility siting assessments.
• Apply DoD 4145.26-series requirements and DESR 6055.09 to operational decisions.
• Develop practical safety solutions and work with engineering and operations teams.
• Maintain explosives-safety procedures, operating limits, and storage requirements.
• Partner with manufacturing, facilities, and engineering teams on facility growth and modernization.
• Lead or support process hazard analyses, risk assessments, and reviews of safety documentation.
• Provide technical recommendations to leadership and approval authorities.
• Support investigations of energetic incidents and near misses.
• Build scalable and repeatable explosives-safety processes.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Materials Science, Explosives Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 6 years of progressively responsible experience in explosives safety, energetic materials, ordnance safety, ammunition and explosives operations, or a closely related technical field.
• Experience independently performing explosives-safety functions in a defense, government, manufacturing, or similarly regulated energetic-materials environment.
• Advanced working knowledge of DoD 4145.26-series explosives-safety requirements and DESR 6055.09.
• Experience preparing or leading quantity-distance analyses, explosives safety site plans, and explosives facility siting assessments.
• Experience developing, reviewing, or improving explosives operating procedures, technical safety standards, and risk-mitigation measures.
• Broad understanding of explosives-safety considerations across energetic material handling, processing, storage, transportation, manufacturing, or testing operations.
• Knowledge of applicable federal, state, and local explosives-safety requirements, including relevant OSHA process safety requirements.
• Ability to resolve ambiguous technical or regulatory problems and influence stakeholders.
• Strong technical writing, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to independently prioritize and execute complex assignments.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Nice to have

• Direct experience supporting solid rocket motor, composite or double-base propellant, or other energetic-material manufacturing operations.
• Experience providing explosives-safety support for new facility construction, major facility expansion, commissioning, or modernization.
• Experience working with government explosives-safety authorities, customer review organizations, or regulatory agencies.
• Experience establishing or improving explosives-safety programs in growing or evolving manufacturing environments.
• Experience developing technical standards or safety practices implemented across multiple facilities or operational teams.
• Familiarity with process hazard analysis, hazard classification, blast mitigation, protective construction, and magazine operations.
• Experience operating as a recognized explosives-safety subject matter expert or authority having jurisdiction within an organization.
• Active U.S. security clearance, including DoD Secret or Top Secret, or DOE L or Q access authorization.
• Familiarity with Jira, Microsoft Project, Confluence, or similar planning and collaboration tools.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

Before you apply

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
• Subject to pre-employment and randomized substance screening.

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.