Occupational Health and Safety Ordnance Specialist

Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

Boeing’s Enterprise Environment Health and Safety (EHS) organization’s Workplace Safety team is currently looking for an Occupational Health and Safety Ordnance Specialist in Hazelwood, MO.

 

This role plays a critical role in representing Boeing in ordnance-related regulatory revisions, ensuring compliance across more than 50 explosives sites, and providing expert guidance to 40+ Ordnance Safety Focals across the company. The specialist’s expertise is essential to evaluating and approving new explosives sites, enabling the safe and compliant expansion of Boeing’s defense capabilities and supporting potential opportunities for multi-billion-dollar defense contracts. The position also plays a key role in supporting the timely resolution and closure of DCMA Corrective Action Requests (CARs).

 

Position Responsibilities: 

• Serve as the company’s technical authority on Arms, Ammunition and Explosive (AA&E) Safety
• Establish the enterprise technical strategy and governance for AA&E 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 and devices
• Serve as the enterprise technical authority for the design, expansion, modernization, and commissioning of facilities supporting AA&E manufacturing and operations
• Establish AA&E Safety design criteria for new facilities, production lines, magazines, storage areas, and integration facilities
• 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
• Review explosive operating procedures, safety documentation, and risk acceptance packages
• Lead investigations of explosives 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), Global Real Estate & Facilities, to integrate AA&E Safety into products, processes, and facilities
• Monitor emerging technologies, evolving regulations, and industry best practices, incorporating them into company standards
• Represent the company during customer reviews, government audits, regulatory inspections, subcontractor inspections, Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) reviews, and industry technical working groups
• Domestic travel up to 25%

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience): 

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in an engineering or science related field
• 10+ years of experience in weapons and missile systems
• 10+ years of experience with missile/aircraft production and maintenance and/or DoD explosives
• 5+ years of experience technical leadership 
• Up to 25% domestic travel 

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience): 

• Active or obtainable DoD Secret Clearance
• Experience with solid rocket motors, CADs/PADs and commercial aircraft explosive parts, energetic material manufacturing, missile production or all-up-round (AUR) integration
• Experience with explosive safety analysis and risk management
• Experience with facility design for energetic manufacturing and storage operations
• Experience leading the AA&E Safety and process safety aspects of new facility design, facility expansion, or major modernization projects involving energetic materials
• Experience establishing enterprise technical standards, influence executive decision-making, and guide capital investment strategies·      
• Experience with 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) or Department of Transportation hazardous materials regulations·      
• Experience with OSHA, NFPA, ATF, EPA, and other federal, state, and local regulations governing energetic materials, firearm and explosive operations

Conflict of Interest:  
Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company's Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.  

Drug Free Workplace: 

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.   

Pay & Benefits:  

At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.  

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.  

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements. 

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations. 

Summary Pay Range: $140,250 - $189,750

Applications for this position will be accepted until Oct. 31, 2026

Export Control Requirements:

This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

Export Control Details:

US based job, US Person required

Education

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Required

Relocation

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.

Security Clearance

This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.

Visa Sponsorship

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Shift

This position is for 1st shift

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Experience Level
Individual Contributor
Contingent Upon Program Award
No, this position is not contingent upon program award

Schedule
Full time

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.