Job Summary:
The Ballistics Technician is responsible for testing ammunition products and collecting and providing data samples to engineering, production, and quality teams.
Average Hours: 10 Hours/Day
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
· Collect daily production information and input results.
· Become proficient in the daily use of ballistics shooting and data recording equipment.
· Troubleshoot and fix minor equipment failures.
· Help make adjustments to production issues.
· Review and identify production issues that arise.
· Supply ballistics data and accuracy data to production.
· Calibrate transducers as needed, maintain record files for calibration, pressure, and velocity data.
· Handload ammunition for load development and powder charge development.
· Maintain equipment. Eliminate and prevent contamination. Keep equipment free of oil and dust.
· Stay current in knowledge and skills to continually improve the ability to perform duties and tasks of this job.
· Continuous process improvement mindset to reduce data entry errors.
· Must maintain the highest level of safety at all times, following safety protocols carefully and consistently.
· Wear PPE and maintain hygiene factors, including wearing safety gloves, laundering clothes, daily bathing, etc., to reduce exposure to lead.
· Awareness of and maintenance of environmental controls. Monitor proper functionality of systems in collaboration with responsible others.
· Keep work area clean.
· Other duties as assigned.
Specifications/Qualifications:
· Experience: Experience in the firearms, ammunition, or explosives industry. Math skills, including a basic understanding of statistics. Basic computer skills.
· Education: High School diploma or equivalent.
· Communication: Excellent oral and written communication skills.
· Supervision: Must be self-motivated and able to work alone, meeting goals while under general supervision.
· Aptitude: Must have good computer skills and know Microsoft Office programs. Must have the ability to type and have 95% or higher 10-key accuracy. Must have mechanical aptitude. Must have the cognitive ability to think about and understand the meaning of raw data. Must have the aptitude to recognize when numbers don’t look right.
· Attitude: Must be willing to learn to hand-load ammunition. Must possess good teamwork skills and the ability to work with others. Appreciation of standards, policies, and procedures. Goal-setter and ability to work unsupervised at times.
· Working conditions: Mostly indoors in quiet, sometimes isolating underground tunnel; often working alone. Exposed to vibrations, percussions, shocks, and large and sudden blasts. Frequent standing and traversing concrete floors. Exposure to lead.
· Mental and physical demands: Maintain personal boundaries, including managing work-socializing. Maintain a level head and eye for safety. Must have physical stamina to avoid “shell shock syndrome” caused by frequent loud firing of explosives.
· Confidential data: Access to company intellectual property must remain confidential and cannot be reproduced. Employee information must also be kept confidential.
· Travel requirements: Local travel from site to site.
· Physical demands - Must be able to sit for long periods, some periods of standing, walking, lifting file boxes, speaking, listening, motor coordination skills, and good eyesight for reading documents and data entry.