Supervisory Air Traffic Control Specialist, Air Traffic Manager

About the role

Serves as an Air Traffic Manager of a terminal facility, and is responsible for planning and directing all activities at the facility.

What you will do

• Directs a highly technical workforce, including functionally integrated teams of operational and support personnel, that provides air traffic control services throughout a geographic area.
• The work impacts the safe, orderly, and expeditious movement of aircraft as well as segments of the aviation industry.
• Continuously reviews work processes to assure that results meet the agency's mission and the customer's needs, add value to facility services, and are efficiently achieved.
• Provides training, coaching, and guidance to subordinates, and is responsible for team building throughout the facility.
• Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates.
• Sets and adjusts long and short-term priorities.
• Approves leave; prepares schedules for completion of work; assigns work to subordinates based on priorities; evaluates work performance of subordinates ensuring equity of performance standards and ratings; gives advice on work and administrative matters; makes decisions on work problems presented by subordinates; hears and resolves group grievances and serious employee complaints; effects disciplinary actions; recommends/approves selections and transfers; recommends awards or bonuses; approves expenses for overtime, equipment, and personnel with the facility; and identifies and arranges for developmental and other training needs of subordinates.
• Communicates and reinforces EEO policies and programs in all areas of responsibilities, including selection, training, and transfers.
• Supports and participates in the labor management partnership process and fosters a work environment where all employees are treated in a fair and equitable manner.
• Meets or has contact with high ranking military and civilian managers, representatives of the aviation industry, key staff of public interest groups, union representatives, local government managers, professional organizations, and contractors.
• The Air Traffic Manager reports to a General Manager and/or Assistant General Manager.

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

• Applicants must complete and submit the first page of FAA Form 3330-43, Rating of Air Traffic Experience with their bid.
• The form must include from and to dates of experience, position, title, series and grade/level of all positions held.
• The form must be submitted either by uploading a copy as an attachment with the bid package through USAJOBS or fax the form to *** by the closing date of this announcement.
• NOTE: Applicants are reminded that FAA Form 3330-43 is required and NOT FAA Form 3330-43-1.
• Failure to submit an electronic application via Aviator and the required documentation via Aviator or Fax, by the closing date of this announcement, will result in ineligibility for the 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 ***
• Forms: FAA-3330-43 : Rating of Air Traffic Experience

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. *** This position is covered by the Department of Transportation's Drug and Alcohol Testing Program.

Any applicant tentatively selected for this position will be subject to pre-employment or pre-appointment drug screening. Persons occupying a "testing designated position (TDP)" will be subject to random drug and/or alcohol testing.

As part of the Federal Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, skills, and Ability (KSA) narratives, including the Leadership and Management Dimensions, 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 (LMD).

In lieu of providing a narrative response in the text box listed below each Leadership and Management Dimension, in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you choose for each LMD. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability.

Your LMD 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. In accordance with HRPM EMP 1.29/1.29a, this position may be a Career Enhancement Program/Career Progression assignment.

The selectee(s) may be eligible for pay retention. Career Diversity is not enhanced when an employee is assigned to a staff or supervisory position in which they previously held on a permanent basis. CEP/CP selectee(s) will be required to certify eligibility.

All first time supervisors/managers must serve a 1-year probationary period. Those who are not successful, may be reassigned to a non-supervisory position or may be returned to a position equivalent to the one held prior to the selection. Selection and placement are contingent upon waiver or completion of satisfactory security/requirements.

Some, all, or none of the candidates may be interviewed. This is not a bargaining unit position. Links to Important Information: Locality Pay, COLA