Airway Transportation Systems Specialist (Service Operations Center NAS)
Federal Aviation Administration
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Airway Transportation Systems Specialist (Service Operations Center)
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 central operations center, ensuring that aviation facilities, services, and equipment stay reliable and available across a large area to support safe air travel.
The role requires coordinating repairs, minimizing disruptions, and logging events with a lot of independence.
It's a good fit for someone with hands-on experience in aviation technology systems who thrives in high-stakes, technical environments.
Key Requirements
- Extensive knowledge of technology system interrelationships in civilian or military automated aviation, navigation, and electronics systems
- Experience at FV-H Level III or equivalent, demonstrating abilities in NAS operations and management
- Ability to provide services and support to air traffic customers and NAS users over a large geographic area
- Skills in collaborating to shutdown, restore, and repair facilities, services, and equipment while minimizing disruptions
- Proficiency in initiating timely repairs, considering backup systems and criticality to NAS safety and efficiency
- Experience logging NAS events in Maintenance Management System (MMS) and/or Event Manager
- Capability to plan, direct, coordinate, and monitor maintenance activities independently
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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