Summary
Serves as key advisor to commanders at all levels and supervisors on issues pertaining to explosives, missile, nuclear surety and directed energy safety. Provide for the safety of personnel, mission, assets, and the environment from hazards associated with ammunition and explosives throughout its life cycle.
Duty Identifier
SFTY Duty Identifier
Duties and Responsibilities
Advise on matters pertaining to weapons safety. Manage the Weapons Safety program to ensure Air Force personnel understand and comply with all explosives, missile, nuclear surety and directed energy safety standards.
Train unit Additional Duty Weapons Safety Representatives on their program management responsibilities. Develop, conduct, and evaluate local explosives safety training.
Identify, assess, and offer management solutions for explosives safety risks to personnel, resources, and mission. Conduct explosives safety inspections of munitions operating facilities and munitions-related operations, determine methods for managing risks, and document findings for dissemination.
Conduct formal investigations of accidents, incidents, and mishaps involving explosives, explosives and nuclear operations, nuclear certified equipment, and Dull Sword incidents. Compile and analyze mishap data, identify trends, and develop mishap prevention strategies.
Prepare explosives site plans for new construction, major building alterations, or changes in mission. Validate and/or verify quantity distance, lightning protection system, and protective construction requirements.
Coordinate on construction planning and airfield management to ensure facility design and airfield activities meet Air Force and DoD explosives safety criteria. Review requests for deviations to mandatory explosives safety standards, review measures to mitigate associated risks with such requests, and recommend approval or disapproval of such requests.
Prepare and maintain the installation Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance survey package in collaboration with the installation spectrum manager and Munitions Accountable Systems Officer.
Specialty Qualifications
Basic knowledge of explosives safety principles, hazard divisions and characteristics, etc. is required.
Education-Not used.
Training-
For retention the following training is mandatory:
- Completion of course L3AZR2W071-0C2A, Weapons Safety Manager.
- MAJCOM-specific WSM training.
- Course 3J5ACC2W0X1 001, Advanced Explosives Safety Siting.
For entry, prior qualification at the 7-skill level in the following AFSCs is mandatory: 2M0XX, 2W0XX, 2W1XX, 2W2XX, and 3E8X1.
Other-
For entry into this SDI, the following are mandatory (may be waived by the Career Field Manager on case-by-case basis):
- E-5 through E-7 with 3 or more years from current/projected grade HYT.
- Nominative CC/CCMs must ensure candidates demonstrate the maturity and ability to operate in an autonomous environment, without direct day-to-day supervision.
- Overall rating of "Exceeded some, but not all expectations" or "Exceeded most, if not all expectations" on last 3 EPRs.
- For Regular Air Force, score 75 or above on the most recent fitness test and no failures on any portion within the last 12 months. For AFR/ANG, score 80 or above of the last two fitness test and have no current fitness exemptions.
- No record of disciplinary action that resulted in an Article 15 or Unfavorable Information File in the last three years.
- For retention of this SDI, the following are mandatory:
- Maintain entry requirements.
- Must attain/maintain training standards and task certifications according to specific duty position JQS.
- No recorded evidence of emotional instability, personality disorder, or other unresolved mental health problems.
- No record of substance abuse or financial irresponsibility.
- Must maintain local network access IAW AFI 17-130, Cybersecurity Program Management, and AFMAN 17-1301, Computer Security.
- Must maintain eligibility to deploy and mobilize worldwide.