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Salary: USD 180,000 - 210,000 / annual
Mach Industries, founded in 2023, is a rapidly growing defense technology company with ~350 employees focused on developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms and lethal systems. The Principal Explosive Safety Specialist serves as the senior technical authority for explosive safety, weapon and fuze safety, energetic materials operations, and explosives logistics across the organization.
The role establishes and advances Mach's explosive safety program while providing technical leadership for handling, storage, transportation, integration, testing, demilitarization, and disposal of ammunition, explosives, warheads, fuzing systems, munitions, and energetic materials. Key responsibilities include:
**Explosive Safety Program Leadership**: Develop and implement organizational explosive safety standards, processes, and technical guidance. Establish governance for explosive operations including review thresholds, approval processes, and escalation criteria. Serve as senior technical advisor to engineering, operations, test, logistics, and leadership teams.
**Weapon & Fuze Safety**: Provide expertise for systems incorporating Electronic Safe and Arm Devices (ESADs), fuzing systems, initiation systems, and other safety-critical ordnance technologies. Support development of safety requirements, hazard analyses, verification approaches, and test strategies. Lead technical strategies for fuze and weapon safety reviews and prepare technical data packages for government safety review authorities.
**Government Safety Reviews**: Interpret and apply DoD, Service, and customer explosive safety requirements. Develop approval and review strategies appropriate to the authority having jurisdiction. Lead or provide senior technical support for programs undergoing review by explosive, weapon, or fuze safety authorities. Maintain working knowledge of review processes for WSESRB, NNMSB, AWSSRB, AFSRB, and DDESB.
**Explosive Risk Management**: Lead hazard identification, risk assessment, and risk mitigation for complex energetic operations. Evaluate proposed operations, facilities, processes, and designs. Establish methodologies for evaluating and documenting explosive risk. Support investigations and lessons learned for incidents or near misses.
**Energetics Logistics Strategy**: Develop logistics strategies for acquisition, transportation, storage, accountability, and disposition of energetic materials and munitions. Lead explosives logistics planning for test campaigns, range activities, and field operations. Establish scalable inventory management practices.
**Explosive Handling Procedures & Technical Standards**: Lead development and approval of handling, storage, integration, installation, test, transportation, and disposition procedures. Develop procedures for novel energetic systems where established processes don't exist.
**Range, Storage & Operational Support**: Provide senior-level explosive safety oversight for live-fire ranges and energetic testing. Establish and oversee magazine and storage management. Provide technical guidance for ammunition handling and energetic inventory control.
**Hazard Classification, Demilitarization & Disposal**: Lead explosive hazard classification activities. Develop strategies for compliant transportation and storage. Establish processes for demilitarization and disposal of ammunition and energetic materials.
**Technical Leadership**: Serve as technical mentor to explosive safety specialists. Develop training and awareness programs. Influence weapon, system, and facility designs to incorporate explosive safety early. Represent explosive safety in cross-functional reviews.
**Requirements**: The posting indicates this is a senior technical authority role requiring extensive expertise in explosive safety, weapon/fuze safety, and energetics operations. Demonstrated experience with government safety review boards (WSESRB, NNMSB, AWSSRB, AFSRB) and DDESB requirements is expected. Must be eligible for ITAR authorization—U.S. citizen, permanent resident, refugee, or asylee. Position requires access to information protected under export control laws (EAR and ITAR). E-Verify participation required.
