Aviation Safety Analyst (Temporary Opportunity)

About the role

Aircraft Certification Service (AIR) is part of the Office of Aviation Safety (AVS) and is responsible for oversight of design, production, airworthiness certification, and continued airworthiness programs for all U.S. civil aviation products and foreign import products.

What you will do

• The Aviation Safety Analyst performs multiple, varying, and complex assignments under the limited direction of a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced professional.
• Applies experience and advanced technical knowledge to perform advisory work to assure customers understand compliance of Federal laws, regulations, or other mandatory guidelines applicable to plan and conduct functional activities for projects/programs that improve organizational effectiveness, efficiency and/or meet strategic objectives.
• Performs special studies and assists in developing plans, policies, procedures, guidance, resources, and similar documents on operational and administrative matters.
• Assignments frequently require knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizational lines.
• Applies knowledge of FAA/AVS/AIR policies and objectives to identify, define and organize resources for large projects/programs/work activities.
• Typical assignments include supporting management and/or teams leading large projects and or programs; defining and developing internal policies and procedures; and predicting potential issues and proposing preventative action.
• These programs/projects directly affect the efficiency and effectiveness of operations.
• The incumbent works with manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced professional to resolves problems involving interpretation and application of operational policy, including establishing standards and preparing performance work plans and assessments.
• Independently plans time.
• Identifies, plans, and organizes available resources to accomplish projects/programs/activities.
• Makes optimal use of resources to complete activities within established schedules.
• Initiates and maintains effective communication with all internal and external stakeholders, and builds cooperative, ongoing working relationships to advance the mission of Aircraft Certification Services (AIR).
• Contacts are internal and external.
• May act as a key technical point of contact for assigned activities.
• Provides guidance to technical staff.
• Resolves all but unique technical problems without the intervention of management or other professionals.
• Identifies and informs management of problems that require their attention.
• Develops and recommends approaches to address current and anticipated problems and issues.
• Works with management and/or more experienced professionals to solve problems.
• Prepares, reviews, and recommends approval of reports for internal and external distribution on projects, programs, and other work.
• Performance is reviewed through status reports to ensure policy compliance and alignment with the requirements of projects and/or other work activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• The work activities support the organizational units, subdivision, and LOB/SOs and are vital to the success of the project/program objectives.

Requirements

• We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.

How you will be evaluated

IMPORTANT: Applicants may be rated on the extent and quality of experience, education, and training relevant to the duties of the position(s). All answers provided in the on-line process must be substantiated. Ensure that your application package/resume supports your responses.

Documents you must provide

• Notification of Personnel Action (SF-50) is required.
• Only supplemental documentation, e.g. transcripts or veteran's documentation will be accepted in combination with your on-line application.
• These documents must be uploaded OR faxed *** OR emailed to *** on or before the closing date of this announcement.
• All submitted documents should reference the announcement number.
• If you are an FAA employee, you MUST provide a copy of your SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action) containing information in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organization of record by the closing date of the announcement.
• You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line application.
• 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 ***

What to expect next

Once we receive your complete application, the Human Resources Office will conduct an evaluation of your qualifications. Eligible and qualified candidates will be referred to the hiring manager for consideration. You will be contacted directly if selected for an interview.

For instructions on how to check the status of your application, please go to: USAJOBS Help Guide. Important - If you make any changes to your application, you must resubmit it. If you make changes to your application and do not resubmit it, your changes will not be considered part of your application package, and only your previously submitted application will be evaluated.

All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of political affiliation, race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, or other non-merit factors. DOT provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the agency contact listed in the Agency Contact Information section of this announcement or the hiring manager. An employee with a disability must notify the decision-maker of the accommodation request.

Job applicants and employees are required to follow up oral requests in writing. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis. Additional information on reasonable accommodations procedures or on EEO Programs is available on Office of Civil Rights (ACR) or by contacting the local FAA Civil Rights Office.

Additional information

We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions. Position may be subject to a background investigation. A one-year probationary period may be required.

The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure statement within 30 days of entry on duty.

FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviation-related companies. *** As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements.

Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA.

In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each [insert KSA section name here], in your work history, please include information that 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 will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate.

Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements may be further evaluated on Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) the listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or alphabetical order and referred to the selecting official for consideration.

This is a temporary position not-to-exceed two (2) years. If this position remains temporary, upon completion of this assignment, the selected employee shall return to his/her original permanent position or an equivalent position in the same commuting area.

This temporary position may be extended, terminated, or made permanent without further competition at any time, at management's discretion. This is not a remote position. Interview: 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 comparative process, then the best qualified list shall be considered to be the selection list. Links to Important Information: Locality Pay, COLA