Triage (EOD) Technician

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Program Mission Support, Engineering & Analysis, and Training.

As a Triage Technician with AMERICAN SYSTEMS you will have an opportunity to do the following:

Provide team-focused, mission-essential support in a challenging environment to our nation's War Fighters.
• Supervise and performs triage, ensuring proper safety protocols are implemented and followed by all triage personnel, for the safety of all personnel working the lab.
• Reviews and revises Standard Operating Procedures for triage operations.
• Conducts safety reviews and briefs lab personnel as requires to address potential safety issues observed and change in procedure mitigation measures.
• Supervise and conducts use of X-ray devices to confirm explosive safety of recovered IED components as part of triage.
• Supervises and performs forensic photography of device configurations.
• Supervise and conducts use of explosive and hazardous material test equipment.
• Analyze X-ray data for identification of initiators/explosives/power sources/firing circuits/components and booby traps.
• Supervises and conducts immediate actions per SOP's to neutralize any explosive threat discovered during triage observing all associated safety precautions.
• Confirms level I exploitation and prioritizes evidence in the lab.
• Brief and train replacement personnel on all SOP's

• Physical ability and commitment to deploy globally as a CEXC team member.
• Ability to possess/handle firearms in support of CEXC operations.
• Knowledge of Asymmetric Threat and Tactical Analysis Case Book (ATTAC), WTI Exploitation and Analysis Tool (WEAT), WTI Lexicon, SIPRNET and Community of Interest databases and portals.
• Intimate knowledge of lab processes and work flow for level II exploitation efforts.
• Knowledgeable of Universal profiling and schema.
• Have current knowledge of global IED device and TTP threat.
• Graduate of the Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal.
• Six years civilian or military experience equivalent.
• Experience working with a C-IED Task Force, CEXC, WTI, C-IED Team, DTK Lab, JEFF, TEDAC facility, other NGIC, DIA, JIDO, or ATF Lab; interagency or state/local law enforcement lab.
• Prior U.S. Military or civilian experience working in EOD or C-IED, specifically with NSW Naval, Marine Corps, Army, or Air Force Special Operations Forces.
• U.S. citizenship. Certifications and Other Qualifications:
  • Eligible for both U.S. Tourist Passport and U.S. Official Passport. Current DOD Top Secret/SCI (or SCI eligibility) security clearance
  • U.S. Citizenship Required for the purposes of obtaining/holding a U.S. security clearance