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Explosives Operator Supervisor

Full Time
$34 – $39 Per Hour
Closing on Nov 27, 2025

Location:
Oklahoma, McAlester
Requires Relocation:
No
Start Date:
13/11/2025
End Date:
27/11/2025
Offering Type:
Term
Hiring Paths:
The public
Service Type:
Competitive
Travel Percentage:
Not required

About U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command

Tooele Army Depot (TEAD) is an US Army Military Installation located approximately 45 miles West of Salt Lake City, Utah. TEAD is a premier active joint ammunition storage site. TEAD is responsible for shipping, storing, receiving, inspecting, demilitarization, and maintaining training and war reserve conventional ammunition. Tooele’s Ammunition Equipment and Manufacturing Directorate (AEMD) designs and manufacturers ammunition peculiar equipment (APE) used in maintenance and demilitarization of munitions for all the Department of Defense (DoD). The Depot is in Tooele County and surrounded by the communities of Tooele, Grantsville, Stockton, and Rush Valley. The area surrounding the depot is as an urban center for a highly varied productive industrial and agricultural industries.

Job summary

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Domestic Defense Industrial Base Facilities and the Major Range and Test Facilities Base to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: Serves as the Foreman supervising work projects involving loading, assembling, packaging, renovating, modifying, breaking down, and demilitarizing munitions across 25+ production facilities.

Major duties

Plan work distribution, deadlines, and sequences for subordinate’s daily project. Explain all work requirements, methods, procedures, specific hazards and safety precautions to all personnel. Ensure all personnel, materials and equipment required for operations are at designated work sites. Review work in progress and upon completion. Perform performance management including but not limited to setting performance standards, scheduling and approving leave, counseling employees and position management.

Qualification

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. There is no specific length of training or experience required. However, you must be able to demonstrate, through experience shown in your written application materials that you possess the sufficient knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the work of this position without more than normal supervision. Minimum Qualifications (Screen Out Element): Ability to do the work of an Explosives Operator Supervisor without more than normal supervision. Must possess the ability to perform common duties such as giving instructions to a number of employees in accomplishing trades and labor work associated with ammunition, explosives, and ammunition component production line operations. I can give relay instructions received from supervisor, demonstrate safe and proper work procedures, check work for compliance, and provide status reports. - Failure to meet this Screen Out Element will result in an ineligible rating.

Evaluations

Once the announcement has closed, a review of your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements listed on this announcement. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may lose consideration for this position.