Airway Transportation Systems Specialist (Service Operations Center)
Federal Aviation Administration
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Airway Transportation Systems Specialist (Service Operations Center NAS)
Federal Aviation Administration
Department of Transportation
Location
Salary
$106,706 - $165,379
per year
Type
Full-Time
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Job Description
Summary
This job involves monitoring and managing the National Airspace System (NAS) from a service operations center, ensuring that aviation facilities, services, and equipment stay reliable and available across a large area.
The role requires coordinating repairs, minimizing disruptions to air traffic, and logging events to keep flights safe and efficient.
It's a good fit for experienced technicians with a strong background in aviation electronics and systems management who thrive in high-stakes, independent work environments.
Key Requirements
- Extensive knowledge of technology system interrelationships in aviation, navigation, and electronics systems
- Experience at FV-H Level III or equivalent in managing civilian or military automated aviation systems
- Ability to plan, direct, coordinate, and monitor NAS maintenance activities independently
- Skills in collaborating with customers to shutdown, restore, and repair facilities and equipment while minimizing service disruptions
- Proficiency in using Maintenance Management System (MMS) and Event Manager for logging NAS events
- Understanding of emerging technologies and NAS operations to support air traffic customers over large geographic areas
Full Job Description
Serves as a NAS Area Specialist for the Service Operations Center (SOC). Candidates must show experience at the level of difficulty and responsibility that is appropriate to the position.
Experience that demonstrates an extensive knowledge of and experience in technology system interrelationships, and management of civilian or military automated aviation, navigation, and electronics systems.
Generally, experience at the next lower level (FV-H, Level III), meets the minimum qualifications for this position as long as the experience supports the demonstrated abilities identified below.
Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement. Major Duties:
Performs a variety of functions using technical expertise and knowledge of complex systems, emerging technology, systems interrelationships, and management of the NAS that directly relate to NAS operation.
Provides complete services and support to air traffic customers and other NAS users over a large geographic area with a focus on the availability and reliability of the facilities, services, and equipment.
Collaborate with multiple customers to shutdown and restore facilities, services, and equipment to minimize disruption of services to the flying public.
Initiates action for the timely repair and/or restoration of facilities, services and equipment, taking into account the availability of back-up systems, possible reconfiguration to minimize service interruptions, and the relative criticality of particular functions to the safe and efficient operations of the NAS.
Ensure all NAS events are logged appropriately in Maintenance Management System (MMS) and/or Event Manager.
Responsibilities include planning, directing, coordinating, and monitoring maintenance activities associated with the management of the NAS with a high degree of independence from supervisor.
May be assigned other duties in support of the NAS.
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