Federal Aviation Administration

Air Traffic Control Specialist, Traffic Management Coordinator (C)

Federal Aviation Administration$90K — $120K *
Transportation
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Minimum 1 year facility rated or area certified in an ATO terminal/en route facility
  • Ability to assess facility capacity and project traffic levels
  • Experience in maintaining awareness of traffic flow and meteorological conditions
  • Familiarity with traffic management procedures and policies
  • Current on required operational positions

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a Traffic Management Coordinator at an ATC-11 level facility
  • Initiate traffic management instructions to maintain safe, efficient traffic flow
  • Issue traffic flow restrictions and reroute aircraft as necessary
  • Monitor traffic flow and weather conditions to mitigate delays
  • Maintain familiarity with all operations and conditions affecting traffic management

Benefits

  • Access to a comprehensive benefits package as a federal employee
  • Opportunities for early retirement under specific regulations
  • Potential for career advancement within similar vacant positions
  • Medical clearance maintenance for ongoing employment
  • Subject to federal drug and alcohol testing regulations
Full Job Description
Summary

Responsible for ensuring that efficient and effective traffic management is maintained.

Duties

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Serves as a Traffic Management Coordinator in a ATC-11 level Terminal or En Route facility.

Ensures that traffic management instructions/restrictions are initiated in accordance with established procedures to maintain a safe and expeditious flow of traffic and minimize the impact of heavy flight demands. Assesses the facility's capacity and projects an acceptable level of traffic.

Issues appropriate traffic flow restrictions to adjacent facilities, to space, hold, and reroute aircraft to distribute the flow of traffic and equalize workload among positions. Follows agency policy when implementing traffic management initiatives.

Maintains awareness of the traffic flow, equipment status, airport/weather conditions, and traffic forecasts to ensure acceptable levels of traffic, mitigate delays, and avoid flights into undesirable atmospheric conditions. Maintains familiarization of all phases of facility operations and aeronautical/meteorological conditions.

Maintains currency on required positions of operation.

Works under the administrative supervision of the Supervisory Traffic Management Coordinator. Performance is evaluated upon the effectiveness with which assigned program objectives are achieved.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

  • US Citizenship is required.
  • Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
  • Must submit an SF50 (See Required Documents).
  • Designated or Random Drug Testing required.
  • REQUIRED: First page of the FAA Form 3330-43-1 (See Required Documents).
  • REQUIRED: SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action) MUST contain information in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24.
  • Please read this vacancy announcement in its entirety before submitting your application.


Qualifications

Candidates must show specialized experience, which is defined as: Must have been facility rated or area certified for at least 1 year (52 weeks) in an ATO terminal/en route facility. Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their work history.

Education

Education may not be substituted for experience.

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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. www.faa.gov/jobs/workinghere/financial-disclosure-requirements

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.

Movement between CPC/TMC/TMS in the same facility results in no change in pay.

Early Retirement: This position is covered under PL 92-297 for early retirement purposes.

Requirement for Security Clearance: Selection and placement are contingent upon waiver or completion of satisfactory security requirements.

The person selected for this position must maintain a medical clearance..

All or none of the applicants may be interviewed.

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Benefits

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