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89E Explosive Ordnance Disposal

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Overview

An Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer commands or serves on the staff of units and activities responsible for explosive ordnance disposal operations or control. The officer oversees the location, rendering safe, removal, disposal, and salvage of unexploded conventional and special ordnance, including nuclear, biological, and chemical munitions.

Minimum clearance: Top Secret

Core Skills

  • Command and staff oversight of EOD operations
  • Oversight of nuclear, biological and chemical ordnance disposal

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Technician

Command or staff responsibility for units handling unexploded conventional and special ordnance provides relevant operational context for civilian munitions-response work.

How to prepare: Ask a prospective employer to assess your EOD-school records and documented qualifying experience against TP 18 requirements for the actual technician level. Its recognized military-school route to Technician II requires 1.5 years of total EOD and MEC-related experience, role-specific on-the-job training and OSHA-compliant 40-hour HAZWOPER training; explosives-access eligibility and applicable licensing or permitting requirements also need verification.

Emergency Management Directors

Command or staff responsibility for EOD operations offers a focused foundation for coordinating civilian emergency response.

How to prepare: Compare your documented EOD operational responsibilities with an emergency-management opening's response and planning requirements. Directors typically need a bachelor's degree and many years of relevant experience, and some states require certification after hiring.

What the civilian work involves
  • Develop and maintain liaisons with municipalities, county departments, and similar entities to facilitate plan development, response effort coordination, and exchanges of personnel and equipment.
  • Coordinate disaster response or crisis management activities, such as ordering evacuations, opening public shelters, and implementing special needs plans and programs.

Notes & Sources

  • The verified 89E description establishes command or staff responsibility, not documented hands-on disposal experience or senior civilian UXO supervisory qualification.
  • TP 18 applies to specified DoD and DoD-funded contractor work. Extended breaks may require documented refresher training or assessment, and higher UXO supervisory levels require additional experience and training.
Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 89E Explosive Ordnance Disposal

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 89E (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank officer, authority codeType officer

    Supports: Command and staff oversight of EOD operations, Oversight of nuclear, biological and chemical ordnance disposal, Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Technician, Emergency Management Directors (O*NET 11-9161.00)

  2. Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board: TP 18, Revision 1

    [2] 24 June 2020; paragraphs 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.2-4.8 and Table 4.2, printed pages 2-8 and 31-34

    Supports: Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Technician

  3. O*NET: Emergency Management Directors

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Emergency Management Directors (O*NET 11-9161.00)

  4. Bureau of Labor Statistics: emergency management directors

    [4] How to Become One; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Emergency Management Directors (O*NET 11-9161.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 89E

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