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Supervisory Aviation Safety Inspector (OPS) (Office Manager)

Federal Aviation Administration · Posted 58 days ago

Hybrid Wichita, KS $111K – $172K Apply by May 22, 2026 Aviation Safety ESTJISTJ
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About the Role

This position serves as a Supervisory Aviation Safety Inspector and will manage a Flight Standards organization and direct the work of multiple organizational units and subordinate employees.

What You'll Do

  • The position reports to the applicable manager and will execute the Agency's aviation safety mission, communicate and build change coalitions, seek out opportunities and involve their teams in supporting change across the organization, and employ best practices for sponsoring change and manage resistance.
  • The manager is responsible for aviation safety activities in a complex and dynamic air carrier environment that includes experience in the following specialties: Operations.
  • Applies an advanced knowledge of the technical aspects of the work directed and ensures the promotion of the highest level of safety compliance with regulatory standards while utilizing transparency of data exchange that includes the identification of hazards and management of risk.
  • Manages and sets clear performance standards that promote accountability, a sense of individual responsibility, professionalism, and pride for organizational performance to next level managers (e.g. assistant managers, front line managers, supervisory principal inspector, as applicable).
  • Ensures effective managerial work and work quality across all units and cross-organizational relationships while maintaining unit and individual wellbeing.
  • Responsible for the leadership, planning, prioritizing, direction, communication, tasking, training, and scheduling of work.
  • Also, responsible for time and attendance, leave approval, performance evaluation, corrective and disciplinary actions, and the setting of the front-line office goals and objectives.
  • Supports effective problem solving by ensuring subordinates are accountable to address challenges and barriers and are clear about roles and responsibilities for decision-making.
  • Confirms active collaboration occurs beyond the office/branch and that solutions fully consider and represent all relevant perspectives/interests.
  • Delegates work and empowers subordinates to decentralize decision-making.
  • Confirms subordinates take on expected work and produce intended results with minimal intervention.
  • Ensure subordinates communicate progress and barriers, and coordinate decisions across organizational boundaries as appropriate.
  • Applies an advanced knowledge of budget, human resource, and other administrative policies and procedures, and an advanced understanding of the objectives of the major subdivision.
  • Makes effective resourcing decisions across several work units, teams, or groups; making certain that work units deliver expected output within required time frame and budget.

Requirements

  • We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.
  • Education is not qualifying at this grade level and may not be substituted for experience.

Personality Fit

This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:

Job ID: e69ec9aa-a654-4e69-8be9-50f35e9e9964

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