Job Listing
Air Traffic Control Specialist
Federal Aviation Administration · Posted today
Hybrid Washington, DC $150K – $228K Apply by Jun 26, 2026 Air Traffic Control ESTJINTJISTJISTP Operations
Apply for this job → About the Role
This position is located in the Air Traffic Organization (ATO), System Operations, System Operations Security Directorate, Strategic Operations Security Group (AJR-2200). This group is responsible for a broad spectrum of the Directorate's policy, planning, and procedures efforts. The Group also carries out an array of specialized programs critical to the ATO's air traffic management (ATM) security and emergency management efforts.
What You'll Do
- →The Air Traffic Control Specialist (ATCS) performs complex, specialized air traffic control assignments.
- →Provides national-level expertise in complex air traffic control operations and procedures to analyze and evaluate critical strategic issues involving Air Domain threats, the ATO's strategic use of Air Traffic Control (ATC), and other Air Navigation Services (ANS) capabilities.
- →Performs duties to support the System Operations Security mission, including participating in the directorate's response efforts addressing natural disasters and other crisis events that impact the national airspace system.
- →Serves as a recognized expert for critical and strategic Air Traffic Management (ATM) security issues, the ATCS advises and assists the Team Manager on a variety of air traffic control operations and strategic security issues.
- →Uses program/project management principles to act as a senior project manager to coordinate large, challenging efforts across the directorate's five component security groups.
- →Evaluates ATM security threats and recommends innovative solutions to mitigate the impact of those threats on the safety, efficiency, and accessibility of the National Airspace System (NAS).
- →This work directly impacts the safety, efficiency, and accessibility of the U.S. aviation system.
- →The ATCS applies experience and expert technical knowledge of air traffic control operations security issues to study, recommend and implement critical strategies for crucial ATM security matters, such as the usage of Temporary Flight Restrictions.
- →Coordinates strategies within the directorate and external stakeholders.
- →Identifies and resolves highly complex problems involving the delivery of ATM security services to mitigate NAS safety, efficiency, and accessibility challenges; these challenges cross national and international boundaries and affect the accomplishment of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of Transportation, and U.S. objectives.
- →Applies experience separating and controlling air traffic to evaluate and advise senior leadership on proposed policies, legislative and regulatory initiatives that impact ATC and ANS operations, procedures and interests.
- →Uses accepted correspondence policies and guides to prepare reports and responses to Congressional Technical Assistance requests, White House Statements of Administration Policy, and requests from the National Security Council on critical ATM security and emergency management strategies.
- →Participates in international forums to evaluate and develop strategies for engaging in situations when international conflicts and disasters affect U.S. operators and other interests.
- →Contacts are internal and external and include FAA leadership, inter-agency counterparts, industry stakeholders, and representatives from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Congress, and the White House.
Requirements
- ✓We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.
- ✓Education cannot be substituted for experience.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 1b6e3a73-0565-490d-9e36-c33f61649940
Posted via USAJobs