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Airway Transportation Systems Specialist
Federal Aviation Administration · Posted 14 days ago
Hybrid Washington, DC $128K – $198K Apply by Sep 10, 2026 Transportation Specialist ENTJESTJISTJISTP
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This position is located in the Air Traffic Organization (ATO), Safety Service Unit, Safety Directorate, Safety Services Group (AJI-1500). This Group is responsible for analyzing reports and data to formulate corrective actions for continuous improvement and serves as a collaborative liaison between different lines of business.
What You'll Do
- →Develops policies, processes, and training that identify and mitigate operational non-compliance, safety risks, and fatigue issues.
- →Serves as a senior project manager for large, challenging work activities to develop new concepts, systems, or innovative approaches.
- →Develops solutions to resolve unprecedented situations that adversely affect crucial components of the NAS by modifying existing or emerging technologies.
- →Provides guidance and instruction to address diverse, complex issues that often overlap programs in other lines of business and that affect strategic Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) programs.
- →Uses extensive experience installing and maintaining aviation electronic equipment such as radars, communication and weather system equipment in a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) terminal or en route air traffic facilities.
- →Leads highly complex and challenging activities to maintain networking systems, servers, software, and protect critical infrastructure.
- →Integrates the results of investigations, safety evaluations, testing, and risk management into an in-depth strategy for operations in terminal and en route air traffic facilities.
- →Utilizes automated systems such as the Operational Risk Management (ORM)/independent Risk Management Checklist (IRMC) to evaluate and determine risk.
- →Serves as the technical expert in certification, periodic maintenance, and equipment coordination and logging procedures to develop policies and training criteria.
- →Evaluates non-compliance and safety risks associated with National Airspace System (NAS) technical events and develops recommendations to mitigate identified risks, address underlying causal factors, and improve strategies for preventing or minimizing service interruptions and system outages.
- →Analyzes safety data to formulate and recommend organizational positions on major agency activities to senior managers.
- →Represents the FAA as a senior technical authority for major projects and programs.
- →Identifies and resolves issues that often cross organizational boundaries, including unions and external stakeholders related to Safety Management Systems, and develops recommendations to address complex aviation safety issues.
- →Prepares technical safety reports to inform management decisions in strategic planning.
Requirements
- ✓We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.
- ✓Education cannot be substituted for experience.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 993a245b-6e1b-45f4-86a5-bb027c81694d
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