United States Air Force Work Values

Daily Duties at United States Air Force:

The explosive safety person is a skill-set that is hand selected from the best munitions personnel. There are only 50 such personnel in the entire career field and only the best are retained past the initial 2 year commitment. Explosive safety superintendent has oversight and accountability of the base or regions explosive safety programs that affect the safety of all base personnel which can range into 20,000 or more and may include close coordination with other safety branches such as the Army, Navy, Marine units, and foreign military's such as Great Britain, Australia, and Canada, to name a few. There are numerous primary responsibilities such as the development and implementation of explosive site plans which receive final approval by the Department of Defense Explosive Safety Board. Site plans may be developed manually in adverse conditions or through the Assessment System Hazard Survey (ASHS II) database. Plans include the location, construction engineering, safety systems, and specified use of every facility with a specified distance up to 4,000 feet, and include aircraft, roads, waterway, and every single topographical item. Provide safety briefings to contractors and vendors and brief them on actions to take during an emergency. Regular inspections are performed on all units that utilize explosives and all inspections are documented, analyzed for trends, and briefed to executive management. Depending on the location, units with explosives can range from 10 to 60 or more. There were 34 locations at Langley AFB and approximately 45 locations at wartime bases, and approximately 30 locations at Qatar. Randomly spot check construction sites and notify the contracting officer when explosives safety exposure distance violations or unsafe practices are observed. Consult with engineering and logistics personnel to provide up-to-date environmental and explosives safety criteria or standards on equipment to be purchased, architectural drawings, or planned operating procedures. Author, modify, and maintain numerous safety related regulations, standards, methods, and techniques in order to maximize the safety program. Develop risk assessments based on a large platform of explosive related objectives to include aircraft, vehicle transportation, exercises involving explosives, emergency demolition, K-9 training, and munitions maintenance objectives in peacetime and wartime efforts. Eliminate or mitigate risk to the lowest level possible. Apply for an explosive waiver through the Air Force Safety Center when risks continue to pose an unacceptable threat. Advise commanders, managerial, and executive personnel of courses of actions affecting explosives and explosives transportation, storage, handling operations, work processes, human-machine relationships, and environmental conditions which impact on the safety and efficiency of personnel. Conduct followup inspections as needed. Regarding accidents involving munitions, responsible to plan, direct, conduct investigations, and analyze mishaps and hazardous conditions to determine origin, causes, and contributing elements and prepares written evaluation reports concerning findings that are delivered to executive management and throughout every safety department in the armed forces for lower level dissemination. Develop and provide technical safety training and instruction to base supervisors, employees, and unit explosives safety representatives on a wide range of work operations areas such as risk assessment, transportation, handling, proper storage of hazardous materials, and evacuation procedures. Use a wide variety of formal training materials, such as outlines, handouts, publications, films, exhibits, protective devices, and visual aids to provide and reinforce information related to safe work practices, accident prevention techniques, and mishap reporting requirements. Promote safety through poster campaigns, displays of safety equipment, and oral presentations. Prepare safety articles, bulletins, and pamphlets, such as the quarterly Safetygram, for local use by base personnel. Maintain required course documentation/records. Maintain knowledge of explosives safety principles, practices, procedures, laws, regulations, and legislative issues as they relate to the military installation explosives safety program; the requirements, methods, and techniques of accident and mishap investigation, analysis, resolution of safety problems, and formal reporting procedures. Evaluate safety standards adopted by Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board, national safety associations, publications on explosives operations, work processes; and current problems and modify and adapt for local application in both foreign and domestic settings and in peacetime and wartime. Regularly provide recommendations and decisions on complex policy issues that frequently become official installation policy and may impact a wide range of agency weapons and explosives safety activities. Maintain ability to be on-call 365/24/7 for response to accidents involving explosives, aircraft, or ground safety related incidents. Must also possess excellent verbal and written skills. Author and maintain scenarios in base wide simulated wartime disaster recovery, business continuity, and emergency management settings. Scenarios often involve the live use of explosives. Mass casualties and damage to aircraft and other resources are often simulated and we evaluate the responding personnel on their actions to mitigate and contain the situation. Superior performers are recognized and personnel who display inferior performance and reported to management for disciplinary actions or recurring training. The security of electronic and physical information is paramount to prevent disclosure of military information to personnel who not authorized access to the information. Responsible to utilize time management in order to effectively multitask a variety of challenges with a dedicated suspense time. Evaluated subordinates on a semiannual basis. Author or review annual performance reports on all employees. Author or review recognized achievements and awards for deserving subordinates. Detect and correct insufficient work practices through a variety of methods ranging from counseling to loss of rank. Coordinate and communicate schedules and work requirements with higher level supervision. Detect adverse morale trends and take the appropriate corrective actions. Maintain chain of command among subordinates and higher level managers. Responsible for physical security of the facility, vehicles, munitions, and all other resources. Responsible for the safety of all personnel regardless of the task assigned. Ensure all personnel use required safety gear such as gloves, hearing protection, and reflective belts. Responsible for the security of information. Responsible to ensure all personnel behave ethically and do not display bias, discrimination, sexual harassment or segregation: must act as a team! Monitor and maintain professional relationships among subordinates. Maintain customs and courtesy behavior among subordinates. Participate in promotion, decoration, award, and retirement ceremonies. Responsible to maintain physical fitness and to ensure subordinates also maintain physical fitness.

What they like about United States Air Force:

The social vibrance of a hiring firm is very important to you. Your ability to make and maintain friendships there is a critical part of your decision. You would likely be dissatisfied with a workplace that is quiet, cold, or otherwise not particularly social. When you investigate a new hiring company, ask recruiters, managers, and potential co-workers about the social life and opportunities there. This is especially important when you are relocating; moving dramatically alters your social sphere both inside and outside the workplace.

Tags

Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Emergency Management, Management, Supervisor, Incident Response, Incident Readiness, Information Security, Vendor Management, Contract Management, Project Management, Budgeting, Budget Forcasting, Risk Analysis, Safety, Physical Security, Audit, Compliance, Quality Assurance, Budget Analysis, Third Party Provider Manager, Trainer, Information Privacy

Skills

Verbal and written communication, Maintain focus under pressure, Organized, Leadership and mentorship, Risk evaluation and mitigation, Microsoft Office proficient, Supervisor, Evaluator of simulations, Detailed, thorough, and efficient, Teamwork

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