Supervisory Air Traffic Control Specialist, Air Traffic Manager (AT-2152-GL)
Federal Aviation Administration
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Air Traffic Control Specialist, Traffic Management Coordinator (AT-2152-KH)
Federal Aviation Administration
Department of Transportation
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada
Salary
$149,758 - $202,177
per year
Type
Closes
February 18, 2026
SES Pay Grade
Base salary range: $147,649 - $221,900
Typical requirements: Executive-level leadership experience. Senior executive qualifications required.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This job involves coordinating air traffic in a busy airport or en route center to keep flights moving safely and efficiently, especially during high-demand periods, by adjusting routes, holding aircraft, and managing restrictions.
A good fit would be someone with hands-on experience as an air traffic controller who can stay calm under pressure, quickly assess changing conditions like weather or equipment issues, and follow strict safety rules.
Key Requirements
- Facility rated or area certified in an Air Traffic Organization (ATO) terminal or en route facility
- Specialized experience in traffic management, including issuing restrictions to maintain safe aircraft flow
- Ability to assess facility capacity, project traffic levels, and distribute workload among positions
- Knowledge of agency policies for implementing traffic management initiatives
- Familiarity with traffic flow, equipment status, airport/weather conditions, and traffic forecasts
- Maintenance of currency on required operational positions
- Work under administrative supervision with performance based on achieving program objectives
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 in an ATO terminal/en route facility.
Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their work history. Major Duties:
Serves as a Traffic Manager Coordinator in an ATC-11 level terminal facility.
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 Management Coordinator. Performance is evaluated upon the effectiveness with which assigned program objectives are achieved.
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