Aviation Safety Technician

Aviion Safety Technician Department of Transportion Federal Aviion Administrion AFS, Flight Standards Service, Internional Program Division, New York

IFO, FS054-NYC

Summary Incumbent serves as a Aviion Safety Technician (AST) in a Flight Standards Office providing technical support to Aviion Safety Inspectors (ASl's) and the public. Performs or assists with a wide range of certificion, surveillance, and investigion duties requiring research and evaluion in accordance with current FAA safety directives/orders. Learn more about this agency Summary Incumbent serves as a Aviion Safety Technician (AST) in a Flight Standards Office providing technical support to Aviion Safety Inspectors (ASl's) and the public. Performs or assists with a wide range of certificion, surveillance, and investigion duties requiring research and evaluion in accordance with current FAA safety directives/orders. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/05/2026 to 05/26/2026 Salary $72,737 - $94,563 per year Salary includes a locality payment of 37.95%. Pay scale & grade FG 9 Locions 2 vacancies in the following locions: Teterboro, NJ Farmingdale, NY Garden City, NY Queens, NY Telework eligible Yes—Situional telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy. Travel Required 25% or less - The job may require up to 25% travel. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential NA Job family (Series) 1802 Compliance Inspection And Support Supervisory stus No Security clearance Secret Drug test Yes Bargaining unit stus Yes - This position is represented by

PASS:

Flight Standards Services. Announcement number

AWP-AFX-26-BAR8899-98491

Control number 867853700 This job is open to Help Internal to an agency Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement. Clarificion from the agency Open to current permanent FAA employees- AVS Wide to include AMA-200 Duties Help Tasks are performed following prescribed or established procedures to assist inspectors, investigors, and Flight Standards program officials in their fact-finding or program administrion responsibilities and requires basic evaluive judgment. The work performed falls primarily in one of the following cegories: (1) Inspections where determinions are based on visual or other specific inspection techniques and are made based on relively clear-cut considerions such as the presence or absence of required documents or the obvious physical condition of an item or premises. These inspections are governed by specific procedures and serve as bases for action by compliance program officials. Typically, such work includes both initial and follow-up inspections including obtaining samples and performing well-established field tests, if approprie. (2) Technical support to inspections or investigions such as searching for, ghering, screening, and providing factual informion or explanions reled to the subject of an inspection or investigion or to the compliance program itself. These tasks are performed following prescribed or established procedures to assist compliance inspectors, investigors, and program officials in their fact finding or program administrion responsibilities. The work includes activities such as obtaining background informion on subjects of inspections or investigions by means of record searches, structured interviews, automed informion retrieval, telephone inquiries, or correspondence; providing informion to authorized persons concerning the stus of particular investigions; explaining licensing or other requirements, including exceptions or exemptions, to persons or organizions subject to regulions; compiling final investigive reports with necessary exhibits; and maintaining required administrive reports on topics such as manpower, case load, and case stus. Work in investiging, inspecting, or advising individuals or organizions subject to Federal laws, regulions, or other mandory guidelines to assure their understanding and compliance when such work requires considerable evaluive judgment is excluded from this position.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical Administrion Provides technical knowledge and support to aviion safety inspectors, the general public, stakeholders, and airmen regarding a wide variety of aviion-reled topics. Extracts safety da and informion from FAA records to identify trends for items th affect aviion safety and enters technical findings in agency approved dabases. This individual will provide technical assistance and/or support with certificion, surveillance, investigion, and/or enforcement, examples include, but are not limited to: Certificion Support

• Provides technical support to ASl's during certificion of operors and air agencies.
• Reviews airmen certificion files, submitted by designees for accuracy.
• Reviews inspection authorizion files for renewal eligibility.
• Conducts Operional Color Vision Tests.
• Reviews designee management system to determine renewal eligibility.
• Compiles da for technical reports. Surveillance Support
• Assists ASI's with surveillance of aviion events.
• Assists in drafting and issuing waivers and authorizions. Investigion Support
• Drafts Enforcement Investigive Reports (EIR) for review and final approval by an ASI
• Acts as the Point of Contact (POC) for safety assets (PPE) reled to accident investigions.

Enforcement Support:

Incumbent responsible for enforcement functions including: conducting violions, voluntary disclosure, suspect illegal charters, incidents, navigion and altitude deviion investigions. Other duties may be assigned. Requirements Help Conditions of employment US Citizenship is required. Selective Service Registrion is required for males born after 12/31/1959. Must submit an SF50 (See Required Documents). Designed or Random Drug Testing required. In-grade/downgrade applicions accepted. Qualificions To qualify for this position the FG-9, you must demonstre in your applicion th you possess least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the

FV-E, GS-/FG-8

level. Specialized experience is experience th has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.

Specialized experience is:

1) demonstred accomplishment in practical technical aviion operions; 2) experience in using computerized dabase systems; 3) experience in preparing technical reports; and 4) experience in researching, analyzing and providing recommendions. In addition, experience must also include the following: 1) experience in ghering and compiling aviion safety da; 2) experience in assisting in aviion investigions such as complaints, occurrences, incidents, accidents and/or violions. Please ensure you answer all questions and follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may impact ring or may result in not being considered for the job. Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their work history. Qualificions must be met by the closing de of this vacancy announcement.

Security Requirements:

Non-critical sensitive (2): This position requires completion & favorable adjudicion of a Tier 3 (T3) background investigion prior to appointment, unless a waiver is obtained and approved. Educion Educion may not be substituted for experience these grade levels. Preview job questionnaire Make sure your resume includes detailed informion to support your qualificions and answers to the job questionnaire. Additional informion We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions. Position may be subject to a background investigion. A one-year probionary period may be required. The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure stement within 30 days of entry on duty. FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviion-reled companies. www.faa.gov/jobs/workinghere/financial-disclosure-requirements This position is covered by the Department of Transportion's Drug and Alcohol Testing Program. Any applicant tentively selected for this position subject to pre-employment or pre-appointment drug screening. Persons occupying a "testing designed position (TDP)" subject to random drug and/or alcohol testing. As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiive (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to elimining the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narrives from the initial applicion in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrive response in the text box listed below each KSA. In lieu of providing a KSA narrive response in the text box listed below each KSA, in your work history, please include informion th 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 evalued further to valide whether the level th you selected is approprie based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as approprie. Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualificion requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evalued on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluion, applicants placed in one of the following cegories: score order, cegory grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for considerion. In-grade/Downgrade applicions accepted Current FAA employee: You MUST submit a copy of your most recent (non-award) SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action, or equivalent document th verifies tenure (block 24, code 1 or 2). Failure to provide the required documention by the closing de of this announcement will result in non-considerion for this position.

Interview policy:

If the Agency decides to interview any qualified employee on the selection list, then all on the list who are qualified must be interviewed. Links to

Important Informion:

Locality Pay , COLA Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.

IMPORTANT

Applicants may be red on the extent and quality of experience, educion, and training relevant to the duties of the position(s). All answers provided in the on-line process must be substantied. Ensure th your applicion package/resume supports your responses. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents Required Documents Help If you need to submit additional documents to supplement your online applicion, e.g. transcripts, SF-50, or veterans' documention, you may upload these documents with your applicion in USAJOBS. Supplemental documention can also be faxed to 1 (424) 405-7365 on or before the closing de of this announcement. Please include your name and the vacancy announcement number on each of your faxed pages and redact all Personally Identifiable Informion (PII), such as social security number and de of birth. If you are an FAA employee, you MUST provide a copy of your SF-50 (Notificion of Personnel Action) containing informion in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organizion of record by the closing de of the announcement. You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line applicion. If faxing the SF-50, please ensure you include the vacancy announcement number on the faxed copy. If you are an FAA employee, you can access and print your SF-50 from the eOPF system https://eopf.opm.gov/dot/ . If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Applicants may be required to complete one or multiple assessments as part of the evaluion process. This assessment aims to evalue the competencies and qualificions essential for the position. You must apply online to receive considerion. Your applicion must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the Close De for it to be accepted. If you are applying for positions associed with FAA registers, your applicion must be submitted the time a referral list is creed in order to receive considerion for positions associed with a register.

RESUMES ARE LIMITED TO TWO PAGES. IN DESCRIBING YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC AND INCLUDE INFORMATION AS IT RELATES TO THE QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS POSITION.

Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following informion: Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job) Relevant work experience: should align to the Job Announcement and address all required qualificions and include job title, employer name, start/end des, number of hours worked per week. Educion, certificion or licensure: If required, educion should include school/institution name, completion de, degree type and GPA. Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above informion and failure to provide ALL of this informion may result in a finding of ineligible. You may upload completed documents to your USAJOBS Account. This will provide you the opportunity to utilize the uploaded informion again when applying for future vacancies. Agency contact informion Annika Ramon Phone 1 (405) 422-7335 Fax 1 (424) 405-7365 Annika.

S.Ramon@faa.gov Address Federal Aviion Administrion AWP Regional HR Services Branch 777 S. Aviion Blvd. - Suite 150 AHF-S110 El Segundo, CA 90245 US Next steps Once we receive your complete applicion, the Human Resources Office will conduct an evaluion of your qualificions. Eligible and qualified candides referred to the hiring manager for considerion. You contacted directly if selected for an interview. For instructions on how to check the stus of your applicion, please go to: USAJOBS Help Guide . Important - If you make any changes to your applicion, you must resubmit it. If you make changes to your applicion and do not resubmit it, your changes will not be considered part of your applicion package, and only your previously submitted applicion evalued. All qualified applicants considered regardless of political affiliion, race, color, religion, nional origin, gender, sexual oriention, marital stus, age, disability, or other non-merit factors. DOT provides reasonable accommodions to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process, please notify the agency contact listed in the Agency Contact Informion section of this announcement or the hiring manager. An employee with a disability must notify the decision-maker of the accommodion request. Job applicants and employees are required to follow up oral requests in writing. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodion made on a case-by-case basis. Additional informion on reasonable accommodions procedures or on EEO Programs is available on Office of Civil Rights (ACR) or by contacting the local FAA Civil Rights Office. Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help If you need to submit additional documents to supplement your online applicion, e.g. transcripts, SF-50, or veterans' documention, you may upload these documents with your applicion in USAJOBS. Supplemental documention can also be faxed to 1 (424) 405-7365 on or before the closing de of this announcement. Please include your name and the vacancy announcement number on each of your faxed pages and redact all Personally Identifiable Informion (PII), such as social security number and de of birth. If you are an FAA employee, you MUST provide a copy of your SF-50 (Notificion of Personnel Action) containing informion in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organizion of record by the closing de of the announcement. You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line applicion. If faxing the SF-50, please ensure you include the vacancy announcement number on the faxed copy. If you are an FAA employee, you can access and print your SF-50 from the eOPF system https://eopf.opm.gov/dot/ . If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Applicants may be required to complete one or multiple assessments as part of the evaluion process. This assessment aims to evalue the competencies and qualificions essential for the position. You must apply online to receive considerion. Your applicion must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the Close De for it to be accepted. If you are applying for positions associed with FAA registers, your applicion must be submitted the time a referral list is creed in order to receive considerion for positions associed with a register.

RESUMES ARE LIMITED TO TWO PAGES. IN DESCRIBING YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC AND INCLUDE INFORMATION AS IT RELATES TO THE QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS POSITION.

Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following informion: Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job) Relevant work experience: should align to the Job Announcement and address all required qualificions and include job title, employer name, start/end des, number of hours worked per week. Educion, certificion or licensure: If required, educion should include school/institution name, completion de, degree type and GPA. Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above informion and failure to provide ALL of this informion may result in a finding of ineligible. You may upload completed documents to your USAJOBS Account. This will provide you the opportunity to utilize the uploaded informion again when applying for future vacancies. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Annika Ramon Phone 1 (405) 422-7335 Fax 1 (424) 405-7365 Annika.

S.Ramon@faa.gov Address Federal Aviion Administrion AWP Regional HR Services Branch 777 S. Aviion Blvd. - Suite 150 AHF-S110 El Segundo, CA 90245 US Next steps Once we receive your complete applicion, the Human Resources Office will conduct an evaluion of your qualificions. Eligible and qualified candides referred to the hiring manager for considerion. You contacted directly if selected for an interview. For instructions on how to check the stus of your applicion, please go to: USAJOBS Help Guide . Important - If you make any changes to your applicion, you must resubmit it. If you make changes to your applicion and do not resubmit it, your changes will not be considered part of your applicion package, and only your previously submitted applicion evalued. All qualified applicants considered regardless of political affiliion, race, color, religion, nional origin, gender, sexual oriention, marital stus, age, disability, or other non-merit factors. DOT provides reasonable accommodions to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process, please notify the agency contact listed in the Agency Contact Informion section of this announcement or the hiring manager. An employee with a disability must notify the decision-maker of the accommodion request. Job applicants and employees are required to follow up oral requests in writing. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodion made on a case-by-case basis. Additional informion on reasonable accommodions procedures or on EEO Programs is available on Office of Civil Rights (ACR) or by contacting the local FAA Civil Rights Office. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/05/2026 to 05/26/2026 Salary $72,737 - $94,563 per year Salary includes a locality payment of 37.95%. Pay scale & grade FG 9 Locions 2 vacancies in the following locions: Teterboro, NJ Farmingdale, NY Garden City, NY Queens, NY Telework eligible Yes—Situional telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy. Travel Required 25% or less - The job may require up to 25% travel. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential NA Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test Yes Bargaining unit stus - This position is represented by

PASS:

Flight Standards Services. Announcement number

AWP-AFX-26-BAR8899-98491

Control number 867853700