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Aviation Safety Inspector (Cabin Safety)

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Federal Aviation Administration

Irving, TX (In Person)

$133,068 Salary, Full-Time

Posted 1 week ago (Updated 2 hours ago) • Actively hiring

Expires 8/7/2026

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Aviion Safety Inspector (Cabin Safety) (Cabin Safety Inspector (CSI)) Department of Transportion Federal Aviion Administrion Aviion Safety, Flight Standards Services, Air Carrier Safety Assurance, Irving
CMO, SWCM24
Summary The Aviion Safety Inspector (Cabin Safety) serves as a resource and technical authority in an assigned field office on cabin safety requirements as they rele to work activities affecting civil aviion. Provides technical support regarding cabin safety for assigned air carriers and air operors. Ensures assigned operors comply with applicable Federal Aviion Regulions, FAA policy and guidance and approved programs. Learn more about this agency Summary The Aviion Safety Inspector (Cabin Safety) serves as a resource and technical authority in an assigned field office on cabin safety requirements as they rele to work activities affecting civil aviion. Provides technical support regarding cabin safety for assigned air carriers and air operors. Ensures assigned operors comply with applicable Federal Aviion Regulions, FAA policy and guidance and approved programs. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted this week • Apply by 07/20/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on July 20, 2026 Locion 2 vacancies in the following locion: Irving, 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 $115,711 - $150,426 per year The salary listed above includes locality pay of 27.26% for Irving, TX. Pay scale & grade FG 13 Promotion potential 13 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 No Security clearance Other Announcement number
AAL-AFS-26-AKRBW-98995
Control number 874716800 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 Current Permanent FAA employees ONLY Duties Help Develops a work program to ensure periodic surveillance of training instructors, company training programs and all phases of air carrier operions. Determines through surveillance and investigion th the training facilities are properly and adequely organized and equipped, staffed with appropriely qualified instructors, and conduct flight tendant training as required by approprie FAR and FAA approved training programs. Contacts are with individuals throughout the certifice holder's company, which may include flight tendants, training program managers, center directors, and upper management. Within the agency, there is frequent contact with Aviion Safety Inspectors in other specialties and offices, as well as field and Safety Standards personnel. The purpose of these contacts is to elicit informion, provide feedback, request alterions or modificions, communice findings, or resolve issues and problems. Determines through surveillance and investigion th the training facilities are properly and adequely organized and equipped. staffed-with appropriely qualified instructors, and conduct flight tendant training as required by approprie Code of Federal Regulion (CFR) and FAA approved training programs. Serves as the technical advisor to the Principal Operions Inspector (POI) on assigned areas of the company's training program. Coordines technical instructions, policy orders and procedures through the POI and reled FAA personnel to ensure standardizion of training activities. Conducts investigions of public complaints, congressional inquiries and aircraft incidents and accidents. Conducts enforcement investigions and prepares final reports and recommendions on disposition. Participed in special projects within the FAA to improve cabin safety procedures and policies. Conducts evaluions, assessments and interviews with Nional Headquarter and industry participants, Develops recommendions and prepares summary reports on findings. Serves as a Nional Resource and used to participe in programs/projects sponsored by FAA Headquarters. Participes on domestic and internional committees in the evaluion of air carrier certificion of new type aircraft. Evalues the air carriers proposed certificion plan of new type of aircraft and prepares critique of this surveillance and reports the outcome to the POI. Performs initial certificion of new operors in all cabin safety reled areas, Reviews all documents and evalues all plans top ensure compliance with the FARs, FAA policy and guidance, May provide support to other regions during certificion process. Reviews and recommends approval or disapproval of manuals and revisions to manuals reled to assigned cabin safety programs. Monitors and evalues training programs conducted by the company to ensure compliance with the FARs, nional and regional directives, and safe opering practices. Recommends changed to these training programs including cabin simulors, training devices or other such equipment. May recommend amendments to previously approved manuals to correct any conflict with regulory requirements, elimine unsafe practices, and/or improve the specificity of instructions. Attends FAA and company operions meetings. Evalues cabin simulors, training devices, and other training aids to ensure compliance with original approval. Participes in cabin safety reled incident/accident investigions of air carriers and air operors with the geographic area of responsibility or in other areas as assigned. Evalues operions and facilities by on-site inspections and by reviewing reports by geographic inspectors. Identifies trends which indice deteriorion in cabin safety functions and recommends corrective action. Participes in cabin safety reled incident/accident investigions of assigned air carriers. 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). Position is designed as Modere Risk; a background investigion may be required. Qualificions General Requirements for
All Positions:
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 for
All Positions:
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. Applicants not requiring valid second-class FAA medical certifices who are tentively selected required to: Provide documention from a board-certified physician certifying th they meet the minimal medical requirements; 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 for FG-13 and Above or Equivalent Grade Level/Pay Band. In addition to meeting the basic requirements, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to least the next lower grade level/pay band in the normal line of progression for positions in this occupion. Experience which provided a comprehensive knowledge of all the following: Cabin Safety policy; Flight tendant air carrier duties and responsibilities; Cabin safety operions; FAA regulory requirements; Air carrier cabin safety emergency procedures and associed training; Passenger handling practices; and Emergency and safety equipment loced in the aircraft cabin. AND 2. Experience in least one of the following functions: Conducting emergency procedures instructions; Developing cabin safety emergency procedures; or Developing handbooks, policies, procedures, or manuals in a type of work or cabin safety technical programs and procedures AND 3. Experience in least one of the following areas: Managing Flight tendant emergency training, technical cabin safety issues, program management, or line supervisory responsibilities in certificed air carrier flight tendant program operions; Developing operions and training manuals, programs, policies, and procedures to train flight tendants for effective safety of passengers in air carrier operions; or Applying Federal regulions to air carrier operions th was gained in any of the following areas: -Emergency procedures training programs and administrion, emergency procedures, aircraft evacuion, aircraft evaluion, emergency aircraft evacuion demonstrion. - Special programs (i.e., crew resource management, exit row seing, carry-on baggage, or passenger informion cards); or - Emergency equipment or the installion of such equipment. Qualificions must be met by the closing de of this vacancy announcement. Educion Educion is not qualifying this grade level and cannot 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 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. 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. If the Agency decides to interview any qualified employee on the selection list, then all on the list who are qualified must be interviewed. If the selection list is shortened to a best-qualified list through a comparive process, then the best qualified list shall be considered to be the selection list. Ingrade/downgrade applicions accepted. 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 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 Rick Whitfield Phone 1 (907) 271-5429 Fax 1 (907) 271-5367 rick.b.whitfield@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 Rick Whitfield Phone 1 (907) 271-5429 Fax 1 (907) 271-5367 rick.b.whitfield@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 week • Apply by 07/20/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on July 20, 2026 Locion 2 vacancies in the following locion: Irving, 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 $115,711 - $150,426 per year The salary listed above includes locality pay of 27.26% for Irving, TX. Pay scale & grade FG 13 Promotion potential 13 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 No Security clearance Other Announcement number
AAL-AFS-26-AKRBW-98995
Control number 874716800