Aviation Safety Inspector (Air Carrier - Maintenance), Principal Maintenance Inspector (PMI)

Aviion Safety Inspector (Air Carrier - Maintenance), Principal Maintenance Inspector (PMI) Department of Transportion Federal Aviion Administrion Office of Aviion Safety, Flight Standards Service, Air Carrier Safety Assurance, Pacific CMO Summary The Principal Maintenance Inspector (PMI) is responsible for the oversight and safety assurance of a full range of certificion, surveillance, compliance, enforcement, and inspection duties for assigned air carrier, airmen, and designees. Responsible for ensuring th the assigned organizion meets Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulions (14 CFR) with respect to the Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance Program (CAMP) or similar program. Learn more about this agency Summary The Principal Maintenance Inspector (PMI) is responsible for the oversight and safety assurance of a full range of certificion, surveillance, compliance, enforcement, and inspection duties for assigned air carrier, airmen, and designees. Responsible for ensuring th the assigned organizion meets Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulions (14 CFR) with respect to the Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance Program (CAMP) or similar program. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/01/2026 to 05/21/2026 Salary $107,446 - $139,684 per year The salary as shown is base pay only. Locality pay added for the respective duty locion. Pay scale & grade FG 14 Locions 1 vacancy in the following locions: Indianapolis, IN Charlotte, NC Greensboro, NC Garden City, NY Show more fewer locions (2) San Juan, PR Memphis, TN Telework eligible Yes—Situional telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy. 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. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential NA Job family (Series) 1825 Aviion Safety Supervisory stus No Security clearance Other Drug test No Bargaining unit stus Yes - This position is represented by

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Flight Standards Services. Announcement number

AEA-AFS-26-JAD-98397

Control number 867486700 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 AVS Line of Business including AMA-200 employees. Duties Help The PMI is responsible for aviion safety activities in a complex and dynamic air carrier aviion environment th includes experience in the maintenance specialty. Applies advanced knowledge of the technical aspects of the work directed and ensures the promotion of the highest level of safety compliance with regulory standards while utilizing transparency of da exchange th includes the identificion of hazards and management of risk. As the principal representive in regulory surveillance and risk management of air carrier activities, exercises full certifice authority over a major air carrier with very extensive and complex operions. Analyzes operions involving large fleets of turbojet aircraft engaged in large-scale passenger and freight service. The magnitude, intensity, and scope of program responsibility require significant and regular assistance of managers, inspectors, and administrive staff. Plans, designs, and carries out programs, projects, studies, or other work. Provides policy assistance to field-level Aviion Safety Inspectors (ASIs) on difficult or complex policy interpretions. Assignments involve wide responsibility for the applicion of expert knowledge of advanced multiengine turbojet aircraft and are concerned with all aspects of the assigned operor's CAMP. Assignments this level are of gre scope and unusual complexity, and the organizions monitored are major factors in the industry. Accomplishes work activities within established schedules, analyzes program requirements, and makes or directs adjustments as necessary to address organizional needs. Decisions typically have a broad impact on the operion of a particular type of advanced aircraft and have a significant effect on the safety of the flying public. Contacts with key officials are frequent and critically important for their assigned certifice. Maintains lines of communicion to resolve issues th affect the certificion and modificions of aircraft programs, their effect on safety management, and compliance with regulions. Typical contacts involve dealings with Part 119 officials, the accountable executive for SMS, and members of middle management, as well as collaborion with representives of other government agencies (e.g., DoD and TSA), and representives of other civil aviion authorities. Adheres to established laws, orders, policies, and regulions th provide general guidance for completing work objectives. Applies resourcefulness, initiive, and judgment based on experience to develop and implement evaluion procedures to address problems where precedents are not applicable. Methods, practices, or decisions may be used as guidance in similar problem areas. Informs front-line management of the stus of all programs and projects and is accountable for the technical accuracy, proper coordinion, and timeliness of completed staff work. Aids and serves as an advisor to office management on all mters of assigned tasking. Assists in the preparion of a variety of technical and priority correspondence to leadership, the aviion industry, other governmental agencies, members of Congress, and the public. Assures th correspondence is properly coordined, technically and grammically accure, clear and concise, and th it reflects the philosophy, policies, and objectives of Flight Standards and the FAA. 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 General Requirements for

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Not more than two separe incidents involving Federal aviion regulions violions in the last 5 years; Valid Ste driver's license; Fluency in the English language; No chemical dependencies or drug abuse th could interfere with job performance; and 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: Have 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; Have the ability to hear the conversional voice (hearing aid permitted); Not have any physical condition 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: Possess a valid second-class medical certifice in accordance with Federal Aviion Agency (FAA) regulions; and Pass recurrent medical examinions as prescribed by the FAA. Applicants not requiring valid second-class medical certifices who are tentively selected required to: Provide documention from a board-certified physician certifying th they meet the minimal medical requirements; or 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. When the predominant work involves air carrier maintenance , applicants for Aviion Safety Inspector (Airworthiness) positions must meet all of the following requirements. Experience involving the maintenance and repair of airframes, power plants, and systems of multi-engine aircraft of more than 12,500 pounds maximum certificed takeoff weight maintained under an airworthiness maintenance and inspection program; Aircraft maintenance experience in a repair stion; air carrier or airline repair facility; military repair facility; or local, ste, or Federal governmental agency. Experience involving the maintenance and repair of airframes, power plants, aircraft systems with responsibility for certifying airworthiness. Aircraft maintenance work experience within the last 3 years. FAA Mechanic Certifice with airframe and power plant rings. To qualify for this position you must demonstre in your applicion th you possess least one year of experience equivalent to

FV-I, FG/GS-13

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, but is not limited to: 1) Maintenance experience on 14 CFR part 121 aircraft and associed components; 2) Evalues and decides upon proposals to change the authorized programs of organizions; 3) Crees, monitors and plans surveillance/oversight work programs of assigned organizions. For more informion regarding the minimum eligibility requirements for Aviion Safety Inspector's please the following website: https://www.opm.gov/qualificions/Standards/IORs/gs1800/1825.htm .

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Recency of specialized experience and the need for a valid second-class FAA medical certifice is waived for employees in the 1825 series. 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. 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 Please ensure you answer all questions and follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may impact your ring or may result in you not being considered for the job. Qualificion requirements must be met by the closing de of this vacancy announcement. Selection and placement are contingent upon waiver or completion of sisfactory security requirements. Work history must ste job titles including specialty, series and grade level held. No references made from your Official Personnel File, so informion must be current and up to de. All or none of the applicants may be interviewed. Ingrade/downgrade applicions accepted. 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 All applicants MUST provide a copy of their FAA Mechanic Certifice with airframe and power plant rings. Applicants must apply on-line to receive considerion for this vacancy announcement. Faxed, mailed or e-mailed applicions cannot be accepted. 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 may be uploaded and tached to your applicion. 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 Jose A. Deschamps Phone 1 (718) 553-3146 Fax 1 (718) 995-5688 jose.a.deschamps@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 All applicants MUST provide a copy of their FAA Mechanic Certifice with airframe and power plant rings. Applicants must apply on-line to receive considerion for this vacancy announcement. Faxed, mailed or e-mailed applicions cannot be accepted. 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 may be uploaded and tached to your applicion. 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 Jose A. Deschamps Phone 1 (718) 553-3146 Fax 1 (718) 995-5688 jose.a.deschamps@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 Additional locions San Juan, PR Memphis, TN Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/01/2026 to 05/21/2026 Salary $107,446 - $139,684 per year The salary as shown is base pay only. Locality pay added for the respective duty locion. Pay scale & grade FG 14 Locions 1 vacancy in the following locions: Indianapolis, IN Charlotte, NC Greensboro, NC Garden City, NY Show more fewer locions (2) San Juan, PR Memphis, TN Telework eligible Yes—Situional telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy. 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. 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 No Bargaining unit stus - This position is represented by

PASS:

Flight Standards Services. Announcement number

AEA-AFS-26-JAD-98397

Control number 867486700