Aviation Technical Systems Specialist

About the role

Incumbent serves as the Program Implementation Manager for programs related to the establishment, modernization, sustainment, and operation of National Airspace System (NAS) facilities and equipment in support of Facility and Equipment (F&E) and Operations (Ops) funded programs.

Collaborates and coordinates with team members, stakeholders and program offices on development and performance of project scope, schedule and budget.

What you will do

• Independently applies experience and advanced technical knowledge to integrate configuration management and safety management system requirements into project planning.
• Serves as focal point for Headquarters program offices on implementation issues to include funding, waterfall schedules and NAS equipment ordering.
• Makes tactical decisions during program implementation to manage projects within scope, schedule and budget.
• Applies project management expertise and organizational knowledge when communicating program and project status to organizations internal and external to the FAA.
• Incumbent is expected to effectively and efficiently manage multiple projects and related issues simultaneously.
• Assists customers to ensure current and future activities are aligned with agency and service unit goals.
• Applies project management expertise, experience and advanced knowledge to initiate, plan, execute, monitor, control and closeout projects.
• Coordinates and develops acquisition strategies and monitors their implementation.
• Responsible for scope, schedule and budget performance, evaluating alternatives and assessing project risks.
• Responsible for the close-out of service area projects in accordance with agency capitalization requirements.
• Uses FAA Corporate Work Plan (CWP) toolset to manage, monitor, report on and control projects.
• Identifies implementation related program risks and devises strategies to mitigate those risks through the life of project.
• Provides leadership in developing and defining Service Area Program Implementation Plans to deploy major NAS systems or programs.
• Leads the effort in influencing implementation priorities for each candidate program/project.
• Provides input to Investment Analysis process, reviews program baseline, evaluates the level of integration with existing facilities.
• Performs multiple, varying and complex assignments under the minimal direction of a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced technical specialist.
• Acts as principal technical specialist or as a project manager or team leader for large work activities.
• Applies experience and comprehensive technical knowledge as well as an understanding of new technologies and methodologies, to solve complex problems and develop improved technical processes or systems.
• Considers the objectives of the major subdivision and LOB/SO when developing, integrating, and implementing solutions to diverse, complex problems.
• Assignments frequently require knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizational lines.
• Contacts are internal and external.
• May represent the FAA as a senior technical point of contact on projects, programs and other work activities.
• Communicates results to all levels internally (within an LOB/SO or across LOB's/SO's) and externally.
• Presents briefings to obtain consensus/approval on policies.
• Coordinates significant technical matters with representatives of external organizations.
• Broad policies and objectives provide general guidance for addressing issues but allow considerable discretion to develop new and innovative approaches.
• Draws on experience to solve unusual problems and may create new solutions and policy interpretations as the situation requires.
• Provides policy guidance and instruction to others, both internally and externally.
• Job performance is evaluated, in part, based on the delivery of desired program benefits in accordance with agency and LOB/SO goals and objectives.
• Work activities typically impact directly on the objectives of one or more major subdivisions or LOB's/SO's and may impact on the objectives of the FAA.
• In some areas, the work may affect the safety and security of customers.

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

• You MUST submit a copy of your most recent (non-award) SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action, that verifies your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organization of record.
• Required documents may be uploaded to your AVIATOR application, emailed to the Agency contact, or faxed on or before the closing date of the announcement.
• (EXCLUDES Monetary/Time Off Awards which do not display Occupational Series, Salary or Career Level/Pay Band).
• Failure to provide the required documentation by the closing date of this announcement will result in non-consideration for this position.
• 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 Leadership and Management Dimension and Technical Requirement.

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 KSAs listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category rating, or priority grouping and referred to the selecting official for consideration.

Interviews: If the Agency decides to interview any qualified employee on the selection list, then all on the list who are qualified must be interviewed. Security Requirement: Moderate Risk (5). This position requires completion and favorable adjudication of a background investigation prior to appointment, unless a waiver is obtained.

Subject to a 5-year period reinvestigation. FAA's Core Compensation Pay Plan: This position is covered by the FAA Core Compensation plan. Additional information about core compensation is available on the following website: *** Incomplete Application: Please follow all instructions carefully.

Errors or omissions may affect your rating or further consideration for this vacancy. Links to Important Information: Locality Pay, COLA