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Aviation Safety Inspector (AC - Flight Oversight), Geographic Program Inspector
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An Aviation or Aircraft Inspector performs safety inspections on airplanes and works with aircraft mechanics.
$118,545 / year median in Colorado
+7% projected growth
Job Description
Aviion Safety Inspector (AC - Flight Oversight), Geographic Program Inspector Department of Transportion Federal Aviion Administrion Office of Air Carrier Safety Assurance, Air Carrier E Division, Atlanta CMO Summary The Geographic Program Inspector (Flight Oversight) is responsible for the performance of assigned technical administrion, surveillance, and certificion duties of air carriers/air operors within a geographical area. Learn more about this agency Summary The Geographic Program Inspector (Flight Oversight) is responsible for the performance of assigned technical administrion, surveillance, and certificion duties of air carriers/air operors within a geographical area. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Locion 2 vacancies in the following locions: Wkins, CO Hapeville, GA Houston, TX 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 $90,925 - $118,204 per year Salary above is for basic pay. Locality re added based on locion. Pay scale & grade FG 13 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 50% or less - The job may require up to 50% travel. 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
Farmer@faa.gov Address Federal Aviion Administrion AEA Regional HR Services Branch 1 Aviion Plaza, Room 207 AHF-N610 Jamaica, NY 11434 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 on-line 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 (718) 995-5688 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 do not submit the required documents, your applicion considered incomplete and you will not receive further considerion. 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.
Farmer@faa.gov Address Federal Aviion Administrion AEA Regional HR Services Branch 1 Aviion Plaza, Room 207 AHF-N610 Jamaica, NY 11434 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 Locion 2 vacancies in the following locions: Wkins, CO Hapeville, GA Houston, TX 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 $90,925 - $118,204 per year Salary above is for basic pay. Locality re added based on locion. Pay scale & grade FG 13 Promotion potential NA Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required 50% or less - The job may require up to 50% travel. 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
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Flight Standards Services. Drug test No Security clearance Other Announcement numberAEA-FS-26-SLF-100309
Control number 882221600 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; FAA-Wide Duties Help A.Technical Administrion Responsible for the geographic flight activities for the office. Assures, on a continuing basis, th the operors within their jurisdiction are properly and adequely organized, staffed and equipped; have and conduct an adeque training program, including an acceptable record keeping system; and have facilities and procedures th meet all regulory requirements. Regularly s the air carrier's/air operor's stions and other offices to maintain contact with their local top management officials and coordines with the principal inspector for correction of any deficiencies or discrepancies. Conducts enforcement actions and prepares final reports and recommendions on disposition. Performs or supervises the emergency suspension of certifices or cancellion of flight operions specificions. Conducts or directs the reexaminion of certificed airmen. Conducts investigions of public complaints, congressional inquiries, and aircraft incidents and accidents. Provides verbal and/or written technical assistance to legal counsel, testifies court trials and formal hearings, and gives dispositions. B.Certificion Reviews manuals and determines the adequacy of operions manuals for compliance with 14 CFR. Makes recommendions to the principal inspector for amendments to previously approved manuals to accomplish the following: correct any conflict with regulory requirements; elimine unsafe practices; and/or improve the specificity of instruction. Evalues operions and facilities throughout the geographical area by periodic on-site inspection and the review of inspector¿s report and makes recommendions of changes essential or desirable in policies and procedures to the principal inspector. C. Surveillance Monitors all surveillance phases of flight oversight on behalf of the principal instructor including the following: training programs and records; base and stion facilities; and enroute operions (including routes, areas, and/or airports). Evalues trends which may indice deteriorion in the safety of flight operions and then personally, or through assistance of other inspectors, coordines with the principal inspector, and suggests changes required to correct such trends. Monitors the activities of examiner designees, check airmen, and instructors, and takes any action th may be required due to this monitoring. Advises the SRPM, principal inspector, or manager of any problems and controversial situions and of suggestions to resolve such situions. Conducts a flight oversight system analysis independently or as a team member on special inspection teams. Performs other duties as required. 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). Qualificions Applicants must meet the minimum qualificion requirements for an Aviion Safety Inspector in the 1825 series in accordance with the OPM qualificion standards loced the following web address: http://www.opm.gov/qualificions/Standards/IORs/gs1800/1825.htm General Requirements forAll Positions:
1. Not more than two separe incidents involving Federal aviion regulions violions in the last 5 years; 2. Valid Ste driver's license; 3. Fluency in the English language; 4. No chemical dependencies or drug abuse th could interfere with job performance; and 5. High school diploma or equivalent.Medical Requirements :
Applicants must be physically able to perform the duties of the Aviion Safety Inspector position in a safe and efficient manner, and must meet all of the following requirements: 1. Have a good distant vision in each eye and be able to read printed merials the size of typewritten characters (glasses and contact lenses permitted) without strain; 2. Have the ability to hear the conversional voice (hearing aid permitted); 3. 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 opere/occupy a flight deck observer¿s se (jumpse) or a cabin passenger se in a variety of aircraft. Air Carrier (Flight Oversight)Aviion Safety Inspector Qualificion Requirements:
In addition to meeting the basic and medical requirements, applicants must meet the following additional qualificion requirements: At least one year of pilot experience in multi-engine aircraft of more than 12,500 pounds maximum certificed takeoff weight. Three years of experience working in an organizion with an air carrier, commercial operor, or air agency certifice, an organizion whose work led to the certificion of individual airmen, or an organizion th opered aircraft. At least one year of this experience must be with an organizion th opered multi-engine aircraft or more than 12,500 maximum takeoff weight. Minimum 1,500 total flight hours. Must hold a valid Airline Transport Pilot Certifice. Not more than two flying accidents during the last five years in which the applicant's pilot error was involved.NOTE:
The Aviion Safety Inspector (Flight Oversight) position does not require a second-class medical certifice. For more informion regarding the minimum eligibility requirements for Aviion Safety Inspectors, please the following website: https://www.opm.gov/qualificions/Standards/IORs/gs1800/1825.htm To qualify for this position you must demonstre in your applicion th you possess least one year of experience equivalent toFV-H, FG/GS-12
grade level as an Aviion Safety Inspector. 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 includes:
Work involves monitoring and issuing certifices to a large complex aviion organizion or several smaller organizions th, in total, are comparable in complexity to one large aviion organizion. Work this grade level/pay band is generally reviewed from an overall standpoint for accuracy, consistency, and effectiveness in meeting requirements. Qualificion requirements must be met by the closing de of this announcement. In-grade/downgrade applicions accepted. 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 Links toImportant 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 on-line 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 (718) 995-5688 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 do not submit the required documents, your applicion considered incomplete and you will not receive further considerion. 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 Shawn Farmer Phone 1 (718) 553-4175 Fax 1 (718) 995-5688 Shawn.Farmer@faa.gov Address Federal Aviion Administrion AEA Regional HR Services Branch 1 Aviion Plaza, Room 207 AHF-N610 Jamaica, NY 11434 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 on-line 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 (718) 995-5688 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 do not submit the required documents, your applicion considered incomplete and you will not receive further considerion. 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 Shawn Farmer Phone 1 (718) 553-4175 Fax 1 (718) 995-5688 Shawn.Farmer@faa.gov Address Federal Aviion Administrion AEA Regional HR Services Branch 1 Aviion Plaza, Room 207 AHF-N610 Jamaica, NY 11434 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 Locion 2 vacancies in the following locions: Wkins, CO Hapeville, GA Houston, TX 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 $90,925 - $118,204 per year Salary above is for basic pay. Locality re added based on locion. Pay scale & grade FG 13 Promotion potential NA Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required 50% or less - The job may require up to 50% travel. 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