Supervisory Aviation Safety Inspector

About the role

Serves as a Supervisory Aviation Safety Inspector within the Delegation & Resource Branch (AFG-970). Executes the Agency's aviation safety mission, communicates and builds change coalitions, seeks out opportunities and involves their teams in supporting change across the organization, and employs best practices for sponsoring change and manage resistance.

What you will do

• Operations, Avionics, Maintenance, Cabin Safety and Dispatch.
• Applies advanced knowledge of the technical aspects of the work directed and ensures the promotion of the highest level of safety compliance with regulatory standards while utilizing transparency of data exchange that includes the identification of hazards and management of risk.
• Manages and sets clear performance standards that promote accountability, a sense of individual responsibility, professionalism, and pride for organizational performance to subordinates.
• Ensures effective managerial work and work quality across all organizations, while maintaining team and individual wellbeing.
• Responsible for the leadership, planning, prioritizing, direction, communication, tasking, training, and scheduling of work.
• Responsible for time and attendance, leave approval, performance evaluation, corrective and disciplinary actions, and setting front line office goals and objectives.
• Supports effective problem solving by ensuring subordinates are accountable to address challenges and barriers, and are clear about roles and responsibilities for decision-making.
• Confirms active collaboration occurs beyond the organization and that solutions fully consider and represent all relevant perspectives/interests.
• Models creative thinking and innovation.
• Delegates work and empowers subordinates to decentralize decision-making.
• Confirms subordinates take on expected work and produce intended results with minimal intervention.
• Ensures subordinates communicate progress and barriers, and coordinate decisions across organizational boundaries as appropriate.
• Applies advanced knowledge of budget, human resource management, and other administrative policies and procedures, and an advanced understanding of the objectives of the major subdivision.
• Makes effective resourcing decisions across several work teams; making certain they deliver expected output within required time frame and budget.
• Adjusts resourcing plans as needed to meet changing work conditions.
• Holds others accountable to make good business decisions in meeting the needs of Flight Standards (FS).
• Defines, plans, and organizes assigned budget, staff and other resources to accomplish objectives for more than one organizational team.
• Manages budget and reallocates resources among organizational projects/programs, or requests additional resources, as needed.
• Performs critical aspects of the budget planning process, including projecting short-term and long-term future needs and justifying resource requirements.
• Is accountable of all assigned office equipment.
• Work is typically governed by established policies, procedures, and organizational objectives that frequently leave room for discretion.
• Resolves all but unique problems without the intervention of higher level management.
• Holds subordinates accountable for maintaining mutually productive partnerships with stakeholders as demonstrated by productive conflict and effective action taking to address issues impeding effectiveness.
• Meets with stakeholders regularly to identify potential impediments to team and organizational effectiveness.
• Set and maintain expectations for integrating stakeholder feedback into services provided.
• Demonstrates leadership and commitment to the FAA model EEO program.
• Ensures equal opportunity for all employees or applicants through compliance with applicable laws and regulations to eliminate discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.
• Ensures the alignment of projects/programs with tactical objectives.
• The work activities typically impact directly on project/program objectives for more than one organization.
• The work affects internal and external customers.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.

Education

Information Regarding KSAs: 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 Knowledge, Skill and Abilities, 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.

Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) and other factors 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.

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) will be required to verify area of consideration.
• Other supplemental documentation, etc. will be accepted in combination with your on-line application.
• These documents must be uploaded with your application or emailed to *** on or before the closing date of this announcement.
• All submitted documents should reference the announcement number.
• MUST submit copies of all certificates and licenses with application.
• If the back side of the license contains the ratings, be sure to copy both sides.
• 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. *** Notes: Position may be realigned based on approved reorganization.

This is a temporary assignment not-to-exceed 1 year and may be extended, terminated, or made permanent at any time at management's discretion. Some, all or none of the applicants may be interviewed.

Applicants MUST submit copies of all certificates and licenses with application.

If the back side of the license contains the ratings, be sure to copy both sides. Recency requirements will be waived for current FAA employees in the FG/FV-1825 series.

Applicants must apply on-line to receive consideration for this vacancy announcement.

Faxed, mailed, or emailed applications cannot be accepted. This position is covered by the FAA Core Compensation plan. Additional information about core compensation is available on the following website: *** To confirm receipts of documents, please contact Kinsley Kerlick.

This is not a bargaining unit position. Links to Important Information: Locality Pay, COLA