RPA Munitions Technician – Deployment Pool

About the role

The RPA Munitions Technician joins a Deployment Pool that supports missions across CONUS and OCONUS locations. The role involves hands‑on work with missiles, precision weapons and gravity bombs, ensuring they are safely assembled, maintained, modified, and, when required, destroyed.

Key responsibilities

• Install, configure, modify, repair and adjust aircraft armament systems and components.
• Perform maintenance, demilitarisation and destruction of ammunition and explosive components.
• Operate computer hardware and software utilities for stock control and accounting of munitions.
• Inspect bomb release systems and missile launchers to determine repair or destruction needs.
• Assist in the inspection, maintenance and storage of munitions and related equipment.
• Support quality‑assurance, compliance, continuity and standardisation of munitions programmes.
• Provide technical input on weapons management, inventory, loading and armament systems.
• Maintain weapons certification and currency, and ensure availability and serviceability of munitions for emerging customer requirements.

Required profile

• High school diploma or equivalent military/vocational technical education.
• Minimum one year of aircraft munitions/weapons maintenance experience.
• Completion of USAF Munitions/Weapons Tech School or a DoD‑equivalent program.
• Basic knowledge of technical publications related to aircraft maintenance.

Required skills

• Aircraft armament systems maintenance
• Munitions handling and demilitarisation
• Inspection of bomb release systems and missile launchers
• Use of stock‑control software and related computer utilities
• Interpretation of technical publications and safety procedures