Air Traffic Control Specialist, Traffic Management Coordinator

Full Job Description

Serves as a Traffic Management Coordinator in a terminal or en-route facility and is responsible for ensuring that efficient and effective traffic management is maintained.

Candidates must show specialized experience which is defined as: Must have been facility rated or area certified as a CPC/TMC/S at an ATO terminal/enroute facility.

Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement. Major Duties:

Ensures that traffic management instructions/restrictions are initiated in accordance with established procedures to maintain a safe and expeditious flow of traffic and minimize the impact of heavy flight demands.

Assesses the facility's capacity and projects an acceptable level of traffic.

Issues appropriate traffic flow restrictions to adjacent facilities, to space, hold, and reroute aircraft to distribute the flow of traffic and equalize workload among positions.

Follows agency policy when implementing traffic management initiatives.

Maintains awareness of the traffic flow, equipment status, airport/weather conditions, and traffic forecasts to ensure acceptable levels of traffic, mitigate delays, and avoid flights into undesirable atmospheric conditions.

Maintains familiarization of all phases of facility operations and aeronautical/meteorological conditions. Maintains currency on required positions of operation.

Works under the administrative supervision of the Supervisory Traffic Managment Coordinator. Performance is evaluated upon the effectiveness with which assigned program objectives are achieved.