Aviation Safety Assistant (Office Automation)

Clarification from the agency

Open to current permanent FAA employees, FAA-Wide

Technical Program Support

• Processes FAA issued airman certificates such as ground instructor, flight instructor, mechanic, repairman, and flight engineer.
• Interviews applicants to determine qualifications for non-complex certificates.
• Processes FAA authorizations such as inspection authorization, aircrew program designee, and aerobatic competency.
• Processes FAA issued operator and air agency certificates such as air carrier, repair stations, and approved schools.
• Examines applications and supporting documents for completeness, consistency of information, and assures correctness, if required.
• Responsible for processing temporary airman certification files for certificates issued by designated examiners.
• Examines applications and supporting documents for completeness, consistency of information, and fulfillment of Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) requirements.
• Supports the Designated Written Test Examiner (DWTE) program by providing orientation and training of new examiners, providing required annual and periodic training as necessary.
• Conducts FAA written examinations by assembling and distributing test materials, and following up to ensure corrective action is taken if necessary.

Correspondence and Reports

• Researches, writes, and types non-technical and routine technical correspondence.
• Responsible for maintaining correspondence control and suspense files.
• Reviews outgoing correspondence for grammatical accuracy, procedural agreement, aircraft technical manuals and factual inconsistencies, attachments, enclosures, dates, and signatures.

General Office Support

• Responsible for assigned administrative and technical files such as certificated operator and designee case files in accordance with agency directives.
• Determines need for new files, initiates action to create files, prepares file folders, dividers, and labels.
• Maintains administrative/technical library with includes orders, notices, Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs), Master Minimum Equipment Lists (MMELs), aircraft technical manuals and advisory circulars, etc.
• Assures that charts and office logs are kept current.
• Coordinates organization¿s schedule with regard to inspectors¿ schedules, flight checks, exams, itineraries and coordinates supervisor¿s appointment schedule.
• Prepares time and attendance forms for organization personnel, maintain supporting documentation, and submit to appropriate payroll office.

Communication

• Receives incoming telephone calls, answers inquiries, and directs incoming calls appropriately. Interacts with the public (both domestic and foreign, when applicable) and other FAA offices.
• Assists visitors, determines needs and provides information or refers as appropriate.

Automation Program Support

• Assembles and enters information into various automated programs (such as Program Tracking and Reporting Subsystems (PTRS), Operations Specifications Subsystems (OPSS), Vital Information Subsystem (VIS), and Enforcement Information System (EIS)) and retrieves, prints, and reviews output.
• Retrieves data concerning airmen records, certificates, violation histories and aircraft registrations for National Data Base (NDB) and EIS database systems.
• Generates routine or ad hoc reports such as inspector planned activity, quarterly work program accomplishment report, quarterly NPG report, and inspector open items.

Administrative Program Support

• Surveys organization to which assigned in order to ensure adherence to administrative procedures that are outlined in agency directives.
• Examines current procedures and practices and recommends or implements changes.
• Instructs organization personnel (including new employees) on proper administrative procedures.
• Reviews program participants¿ medical and flight check currency records and advises supervisor of program participants¿ status.

Fiscal Program Support

• As impress fund cashier, reviews requests, and receipts, disperses funds, updates records, maintains vouchers, and determines replacement of funds.

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).
• Ingrade/downgrade applications will be accepted.
• Must type 40 wpm based on a 5 minute sample with 3 or fewer errors.

Qualifications

To qualify for the FG-6 level, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the FV-D, FG/GS-5 level. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Specialized experience must demonstrate preparing reports (such as accident, violation, recurring and special reports) by researching, requesting information, creating files, preparing control sheets, copying and distributing preliminary and final report documents, and reviewing for accuracy and completeness. Maintaining individual logs, preparing special and recurring reports, interacting with offices and the public, assisting visitors and providing information.

To qualify for the FG-7 level, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the FV-E, FG/GS-6 level. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Specialized experience must demonstrate knowledge of FAR, FAA directives, and various agency and regional policies and procedures governing technical program responsibilities for aviation safety such as compliance and enforcement, aircraft accidents and incidents, written test program, and operator certifications. Has knowledge necessary to interview applicants and determine qualifications for non-complex certificates. Knowledge of clerical and administrative procedures used by the office to maintain the office files, reports, logs, and records including SAS data and the Enhanced Flight Standards Automated System (eFSAS).

Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.

Special Note Concerning Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 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.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

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.

If you need to submit additional documents to supplement your on-line application, e.g. transcripts, SF-50, or veterans' documentation, you may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS. Supplemental documentation can also be faxed to (718) 995-5688 on or before the closing date of this announcement. Please include your name and the vacancy announcement number on each of your faxed pages and redact all Personally Identifiable Information (PII), such as social security number and date of birth.

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 https://eopf.opm.gov/dot/.

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