Arms, Ammunition, and Explosives Manager

• Serve as the company's highest-level technical authority on energetic safety.
• Establish the enterprise technical strategy and governance for energetic safety across all business units and programs.
• Develop, approve, and maintain enterprise standards governing the manufacture, processing, handling, transportation, storage, integration, shipment, and disposal of energetic materials.
• Provide technical oversight for operations involving:
• Serve as the enterprise technical authority for the design, expansion, modernization, and commissioning of facilities supporting energetic manufacturing and operations.
• Establish explosive safety design criteria for new facilities, production lines, magazines, storage areas, and integration facilities.
• Review and approve facility layouts, equipment installations, process modifications, and capital projects to ensure compliance with explosive safety and process safety requirements.
• Ensure facility and manufacturing process designs incorporate inherently safer design principles, risk reduction methodologies, and operational resilience.
• Lead or provide technical oversight for Process Hazard Analyses (PHA), Process Hazard Reviews (PHR), Explosive Safety Site Plans (ESSP), Hazard Classification, Quantity-Distance (Q-D) analyses, and other explosive and process safety assessments.
• Establish enterprise requirements for explosive operating limits, magazine operations, facility siting, lightning protection, fire protection, blast mitigation, and personnel protection.
• Review and approve explosive operating procedures, safety documentation, and risk acceptance packages.
• Lead investigations of energetic incidents, near misses, and process anomalies, identifying root causes and ensuring effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Facilities Engineering, Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), Strategic Real Estate, and the Lethality organization to integrate energetic safety into products, processes, and facilities.
• Monitor emerging technologies, evolving regulations, and industry best practices, incorporating them into company standards.
• Mentor engineers, Chief Engineers, Fellows, and technical leaders while developing the next generation of energetic safety experts.
• Represent the company during customer reviews, government audits, regulatory inspections, DDESB reviews, and industry technical working groups.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Materials Science, Safety Engineering, Explosives Engineering, or a related technical discipline..
• Minimum of 20 years of progressively responsible experience involving energetic materials, rocket propulsion, missile systems, explosive manufacturing, or defense production operations.
• Recognized industry expert in energetic safety with demonstrated enterprise-level technical leadership across complex aerospace or defense programs.
• Extensive experience with:
• Solid rocket motors
• Composite and double-base propellants
• Energetic material manufacturing
• Missile production and all-up-round (AUR) integration
• Explosive safety analysis and risk management
• Facility design for energetic manufacturing and storage operations
• Demonstrated experience leading the explosive safety and process safety aspects of new facility design, facility expansion, or major modernization projects involving energetic materials
• Expert knowledge of:
• DoD 4145.26, DoD Ammunition and Explosives Safety Standards
• Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) requirements and applicable Technical Papers (including Quantity-Distance criteria and facility design guidance)
• OSHA Process Safety Management (29 CFR 1910.119)
• Department of Transportation hazardous materials regulations
• OSHA, NFPA, ATF, EPA, and other federal, state, and local regulations governing energetic materials and explosive operations.
• Demonstrated ability to establish enterprise technical standards, influence executive decision-making, and guide capital investment strategies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting to executive leadership, customers, regulatory agencies, and government organizations
• Active or obtainable DoD Secret Clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• High energy individual who craves the opportunity to build a system vs just manage one.
• Natural tendency towards challenging the status quo to find new and novel ways to improve EHS management systems.
• A person who leans into challenges instead of saying 'no' and walking away.
• Willingness to travel (50%)