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Supervisory Hazardous Materials Aviation Safety Inspector
Federal Aviation Administration · Posted today
HybridBelgium$112K – $174KApply by May 19, 2026General Inspection, Investigation, Enforcement, And Compliance SeriesISTJ
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Serves as a Supervisory Hazardous Material Aviation Safety Inspector in the Air Carrier Safety Assurance Branch (AXH-370) under the immediate direction and leadership of the Division Manager (AXH-300) with broad direction from the Executive Director, AXH-1 and Deputy Director, AXH-2 within the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety (AXH).
What You'll Do
- →Supports the AXH mission and objectives by directing and leading AXH work related to the Air Carrier Safety Assurance Division.
- →Exercises managerial direction, leadership, and oversight to support staff responsible for the coordination and completion of functions in support of the Division Manager.
- →Leads and manages the complex work on safety oversight of hazardous material in air transportation.
- →Directs and leads work through subordinate Hazardous Material Aviation Safety Inspectors (HMASIs), Senior Technical Advisors and staff responsible for the coordination and completion of all facets AXH risk-based oversight programs.
- →Oversees the operational implementation of all air carrier safety assurance risk-based oversight, surveillance planning, and operational implementation.
- →Leads completion of mission critical subordinate staff work objectives, which may require making decisions on behalf of the Division Manager in support of accomplishing AXH strategic initiatives.
- →Directs the work of subordinate employees to include, but is not limited to: setting priorities, assigning tasks, monitoring and evaluating performance, coaching and developing employee capabilities, approving leave, and taking or recommending corrective/disciplinary action, as appropriate.
- →Uses assigned budget, staff, and other resources to plan and accomplish project/program objectives.
- →Manages budget and requests additional resources as needed.
- →Contributes to budget planning process and projects short-term and long-term funding needs.
- →Provides leadership with status, outcomes and projected gaps for future oversight activities and business plan targets.
- →Leads and directs the hazardous materials systems oversight of all safety oversight activities; and reports progress through program trackers keeping AXH-300, AXH-2 and AXH-1 well informed and provides timely updates on operational issues supported by any data when appropriate.
- →To support strategic initiatives, applies experience and expert technical knowledge of Safety Management Systems (SMS), complex air carrier operations, as well as an understanding of new technologies and methodologies, to perform critical tasks requiring the development of new concepts, systems, or innovative approaches.
- →Identifies and recommends resolution processes to highly complex or emerging problems or issues which often cross organizational boundaries and impact the accomplishment of FAAs strategic objectives.
Requirements
- ✓We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.
- ✓See qualifications required.
- ✓KSA Information 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.
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