Aviation Safety Inspector

Aviion Safety Inspector (Rotorcraft/Helicopter) Department of Transportion Federal Aviion Administrion Flight Standards Service, General Aviion Safety Assurance Office, Long Beach

FSDO, WPSD09

Summary Serves as a POI the Long Beach FSDO. Learn more about this agency Summary Serves as a POI the Long Beach FSDO. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted this month • Apply in 3 days Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on July 7, 2026 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Long Beach, CA No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—Situional telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $146,632 - $190,627 per year Salary shown includes a locality payment of 36.47% Pay scale & grade FG 14 Promotion potential NA Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel - The job may require travel from time-to-time, but not on a regular basis. The travel may be for training or other work-reled duties. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series 1825 Aviion Safety Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Excepted Service Represented by a union Yes - This position is represented by

PASS:

Flight Standards Services. Drug test Yes Security clearance Other Announcement number

AAL-AVS-26-AKWL-99180

Control number 873344500 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. Duties Help Provides policy assistance and conducts periodic surveillance of designed pilot examiners, check airmen, air carrier training programs. Some assignments involve wide responsibility for applicion of expert knowledge of flight operions for technically advanced rotorcraft/helicopters. Such employees are concerned with all aspects of the operional capabilities and limitions of the aircraft. On a continuing basis, assures th assigned organizions are properly and adequely organized, staffed, and equipped; have an adeque training program, including an acceptable record keeping system; and have facilities and procedures th meet all regulory requirements. Chairs joint FAA-industry meetings; maintains regular contact with organizions assigned; and coordines with top management officials. Requires or directs correction of any deficiencies/discrepancies and refuses or withdraws approval of they cannot be resolved. Responsible for the conduct of enforcement investigions and preparion of final reports and recommendions on disposition. Performs or supervises the emergency suspension of certifices or cancellions of operions specificions. Conducts or directs the reexaminion of certificed airmen or recertificion of an operor or agency. Conducts investigions of public complaints, congressional inquiries and aircraft incident and accidents. Provides verbal and/or written technical assistance to legal counsel, testifies court trials and formal hearings, and gives depositions. Coordines Minimum Equipment List (MEL) approvals with the principal airworthiness inspectors. Takes enforcement action in instances of noncompliance with the MEL. May be assigned other duties and responsibilities which are non-grade controlling. 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. Position is designed as Modere Risk; a background investigion may be required. Selectee must maintain a Second-Class Medical Certifice. Successful completion of a Transitional Check Ride may be required. Qualificions Basic Requirements. All applicants must meet the following basic requirements: a. Not more than two (2) separe incidents involving Federal Aviion Regulions violions in the last five (5) years; b. Valid Ste driver¿s license; c. Fluency in the English language; d. No chemical dependencies or drug abuse th could interfere with job performance; and e. High school diploma or equivalent. Medical Requirements. Applicants must be physically able to perform the duties of the Aviion Safety Inspector (Rotorcraft-Helicopter) position in a safe and efficient manner, with or without a reasonable accommodion. The minimum medical requirements include the following: a. Have good distance vision in each eye and be able to read, without strain, printed merials the size of typewritten characters (glasses and contact lenses permitted); b. Have the ability to hear the conversional voice (hearing aid permitted); and c. Not have any physical conditions th would cause them to be a hazard to themselves or others or th would interfere with their ability to fly as passengers in a variety of aircraft. In addition, applicants for positions th require participion in the operion of aircraft must: d. Possess a valid second-class medical certifice in accordance with FAA regulions; and e. Pass recurrent medical examinions as prescribed by the FAA. Tentively selected applicants not requiring valid second-class medical certifices required to: f. Provide documention from a board-certified physician certifying th they meet minimum medical requirements; or g. Individuals who do not meet the minimum medical requirements, but who are otherwise qualified will receive an individualized assessment to determine whether they can perform the essential functions of the position. Specialized Experience Requirements. In addition to meeting the basic and medical requirements, applicants must meet the following specialized experience requirements: a. Must hold an Airline Transport Pilot Certifice with a Rotorcraft-Helicopter ring or a Commercial Pilot Certifice with a Rotorcraft-Helicopter ring and Instrument-Helicopter ring. b. Must hold a valid, unexpired Flight Instructor Certifice with Rotorcraft-Helicopter ring and Instrument Helicopter ring. c. Minimum 1,500 total flight hours in an aircraft as pilot-in-command or second-in-command, 1,000 hours of which must be in helicopters. d. Must have given a minimum of 200 hours of flight instruction in a helicopter. e. Minimum 100 flight hours in helicopters as pilot-in-command or second-in-command or 100 hours as pilot in a Level D Simulor th replices a helicopter, or any combinion thereof, during the last five (5) years. f. Not more than two (2) flying accidents in the last five (5) years in which the applicant's pilot error was involved. In addition , applicants must demonstre in their applicion th they possess least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the

FV-I/FG-13

level. Specialized experience is experience th has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. S pecialized experience is defined as: Work involves providing Flight Standards organizions and industry with authoritive expert technical guidance and operional control ensuring compliance with applicable helicopter regulory requirements. Work this grade level/pay band is rarely reviewed. When work is reviewed, it is generally accomplished through stus reports to ensure compliance and alignment with FAA requirements.

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(1) Serves as Nional Rotorcraft-Helicopter Program Manager. (2) Investiges the safety and compliance of rotorcraft-helicopter operions. (3) Provides technical guidance on rotorcraft-helicopter policies, procedures, and regulions. (4) Reviews and evalues training and certificion programs. The recency of specialized experience is waived for current or former FAA employees in the 1825 series. Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their work history. Qualificions must be met by the closing de of this vacancy announcement. Errors or omissions may impact your ring or may result in you not being considered for the job. Educion Educion is not qualifying for this position and may not be substituted for experience. 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 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 work history th describes how you meet the answer you chose for each KSA.

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This position requires completion & favorable adjudicion of a Modere Risk (5) Background Investigion (Tier 2) unless waiver is obtained. In-grade/Downgrade applicions accepted. 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

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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.

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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 907-271-5367 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 Wendy Livingston Phone 1 (907) 271-5376 Fax 1 (907) 271-5367 wendy.livingston@faa.gov Address Federal Aviion Administrion AAL Regional HR Services Division 222 West 7th Ave #14 AHF-N100 Anchorage, AK 99513 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 907-271-5367 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 Wendy Livingston Phone 1 (907) 271-5376 Fax 1 (907) 271-5367 wendy.livingston@faa.gov Address Federal Aviion Administrion AAL Regional HR Services Division 222 West 7th Ave #14 AHF-N100 Anchorage, AK 99513 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 Posted this month • Apply in 3 days Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on July 7, 2026 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Long Beach, CA No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—Situional telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $146,632 - $190,627 per year Salary shown includes a locality payment of 36.47% Pay scale & grade FG 14 Promotion potential NA Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel - The job may require travel from time-to-time, but not on a regular basis. The travel may be for training or other work-reled duties. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Excepted Service Represented by a union Yes - This position is represented by

PASS:

Flight Standards Services. Drug test Yes Security clearance Other Announcement number

AAL-AVS-26-AKWL-99180

Control number 873344500