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Supervisory Airway Transportation System Specialist
Federal Aviation Administration · Posted 56 days ago
Hybrid Sacramento, CA $112K – $174K Apply by Jul 27, 2026 Transportation Specialist ENTJESTJISTJISTP Operations
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This position is located within Flight Program Operations, Flight Program Safety, Mission Training and Standards Group. The Manager is responsible for overseeing the administrative and technical direction of flight operations personnel and managing technical support within the Mission Training and Standards Group.
What You'll Do
- →Responsible for executing ground safety programs, to include environmental management system, and occupational safety and health programs.
- →Monitors and provides oversight of flight, maintenance, ground, and facility safety practices.
- →Provides safety education and proactively analyzes data to mitigate and prevent incidents and accidents.
- →Ensures all aspects of the flight operations program complies with applicable regulations to include but not limited to: aviation safety programs, ground safety programs, facility safety programs, and safe aviation operating practices.
- →Recognized as the Flight Program Operations focal point on safety matters, administers the safety program and makes recommendations to improve safety in the workplace.
- →Oversees staff responsible for performing flight inspection of navigational aids and instrument flight procedures in the National Airspace System (NAS).
- →Ensures crewmembers operate in accordance with applicable 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) parts, operating manuals, and national policy/directives.
- →Exercises final authority for managerial responsibilities over a highly technical and specialized staff including selections, promotions, disciplinary actions, equity of performance standards and evaluations training, awards, and resolution of grievances.
- →Responsible for establishing annual and multiyear goals and objectives for the division.
- →Responsible for the development of a professional staff to accomplish safety program goals: develops requirements for budgetary support, personnel, space and equipment programs and manages the resources assigned to the team such as staff, space, equipment and funds.
- →Maintains program liaison with the Air Traffic Organization (ATO) and with technical operations personnel across multiple organizational levels to coordinate current initiatives and planned safety initiatives that affect the operation of the NAS.
- →Also applies a thorough understanding of the principles of management and strategic planning, and the ability to integrate the work of multiple organizational units/projects/programs to accomplish mission objectives.
- →Responsible for keeping the flight program's Chief Pilot fully informed about the status of the organization.
- →Directs the work of subordinate employees for multiple organizational units/projects/programs across multiple functions and/or disciplines within a major subdivision.
Requirements
- ✓We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.
- ✓See Qualifications Required.
- ✓Information Regarding KSA's: As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements.
- ✓Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA.
- ✓In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs), in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA.
- ✓Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability.
- ✓Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided.
- ✓Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate.
- ✓Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the KSAs and Other Factors listed in the announcement.
- ✓Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for consideration.
Personality Fit
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