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Aviation Safety Inspector (PRINCIPAL OPERATIONS INSPECTOR - FLIGHT)
Federal Aviation Administration · Posted 12 days ago
Hybrid Tutuila Island, AS $107K – $140K Apply by Sep 23, 2026 Aviation Safety ISTJ OperationsEducation
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The Principal Operations Inspector (POI) is responsible for applying knowledge of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) for the development and implementation of standards, programs, and procedures for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) field personnel and the public governing all matters to general aviation operations safety issues.
What You'll Do
- →The POI receives administrative direction from management in terms of broadly defined missions or functions.
- →The POI, mostly independently plans, designs, and carries out programs, projects, studies, or other work.
- →The work is normally accepted without change.
- →Completed work may be reviewed for adherence to FAA policy and for assurance that project requirements have been fulfilled.
- →Some FG-14 assignments involve service wide responsibility for application of expert knowledge of flight operations for advanced multiengine turbojet aircraft.
- →Such employees are concerned with all aspects of the operational capabilities and limitations of the aircraft.
- →Aviation Safety Inspectors (ASIs) at the FG-14 level establish technical procedures and performance indexes and review complete flight operations programs for leaders in the aviation industry, or organizations of comparable scope and complexity, or a uniquely complex group of general aviation organizations.
- →Assignments at this level are of great scope and unusual complexity.
- →The following assignments are illustrative: 1.
- →Develops plans to resolve problems. 2.
- →As the principal representative in regulatory oversight of general aviation and air carrier activities, exercises certificate authority over extensive and complex operations.
- →Analyzes flight operations involving large fleets of turbojet aircraft engaged in passenger and freight service.
- →(By comparison, FG-13 employees exercise certificate authority over less complex operations or perform major portions of the certification, inspection, and surveillance under the direction of FG-14 inspectors.)
Requirements
- ✓We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.
Personality Fit
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