Aviation Safety Inspector (Air Carrier Avionics - APPM)

About the role

The APPM (Avionics) Part 121, full assistant to a PPM (Avionics) Part 121 who is assigned a portion of the airworthiness program performing inspections, surveillance, and certification duties for air carriers, air operators, air agencies, airmen, and designees.

What you will do

• Technical Administration Within assigned technical program, assures on a continuing basis that organizations are properly and adequately organized, staffed, and equipped; conduct an adequate training program, including an acceptable record keeping system; and have facilities and procedures that meet all regulatory requirements.
• Regularly visits the organization's stations and other offices to maintain contact with their management officials; coordinates with the principal inspector for correction of any deficiencies/discrepancies.
• Develops maintenance program requirements through participation on Maintenance Review Boards.
• Coordinates Minimum Equipment List (MEL) approvals with principal operations inspector.
• Takes enforcement action in instances of noncompliance with the MEL.
• Conducts enforcement investigations and prepares final reports and recommendations on disposition.
• Performs emergency suspension of certificates or cancellations of operations specifications.
• Conducts or directs the reexamination of certificated airmen or recertification of an operator or agency.
• Conducts investigations of public complaints, congressional inquiries, and aircraft incidents and accidents.
• Provides verbal and/or written technical assistance to legal counsel, testifies at court trials and formal hearings, and gives depositions.
• Coordinates with geographic inspectors for the accomplishment of nonroutine air carrier surveillance.
• Certification The inspector is responsible for initial and ongoing certification of air carriers, aircraft, airmen, and air agencies.
• Makes recommendations on the appointment of designees.
• Evaluates requests to operate under conditions not previously specified in maintenance portion of the operations specifications, approves or disapproves requests, and provides additional conditions and limitations as needed.
• Provides guidance to assigned air carrier in the development of required maintenance manuals and record keeping systems.
• Reviews and determines adequacy of manuals associated with air carrier's maintenance programs and revisions thereto.
• Assures that manuals and revisions comply with regulatory requirements, prescribe safe practices, and furnish clear specific instructions governing maintenance programs.
• Approves operations specifications and amendments.
• Determines if maintenance facilities being established or contract arrangements entered into by air carriers for purpose of overhaul work, major repairs, alterations, and other maintenance are satisfactory.
• Reviews changes and negotiates with air carrier management to resolve problems.
• Determines if overhaul and inspection time limitations warrant revision.
• Evaluates an operator's proposed reliability programs for compliance with national policies.
• Advises operator of deficiencies and required changes.
• Approves/disapproves reliability programs.
• Determines if air carrier's training program meets the requirements of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), is compatible with the maintenance program, is properly organized and effectively conducted, and results in trained and competent personnel.
• Directs or participates in proving flight evaluations to determine compliance with the CFRs.
• Recommends changes that will be required prior to approval.
• Surveillance Directs and/or performs inspection and surveillance of air carrier's continuous airworthiness maintenance program.
• Monitors all phases of air carrier's maintenance operation, including the following: maintenance, engineering, quality control, production control, training, and reliability programs.
• Analyzes trends to detect a deterioration in the maintenance program.
• Analyzes reports submitted by the air carrier to ensure compliance with the maintenance program and assures the air carrier has an effective continuing analysis and surveillance program to meet the requirements of the CFRs.
• Monitors activities of air operators, air agencies, airmen, and designees.
• May be assigned other duties and responsibilities.

Requirements

• We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.

Education

High school diploma required or equivalent required.

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

• All applicants must provide a copy of their most current SF 50.
• 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 KSA, 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 and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA); listed in the announcement.

Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for consideration. Please ensure you answer all questions and follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may impact your rating or may result in you not being considered for the job.

Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement. Selection and placement are contingent upon waiver or completion of satisfactory security requirements. Work history must state job titles including specialty, series and grade level held.

No references will be made from your Official Personnel File, so information must be current and up to date. All or none of the applicants may be interviewed. Ingrade/downgrade applications will be accepted.

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