Duties
The Aviation Safety Program Compliance Specialist 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 of aviation statutory regulations to ensure compliance. Conducts regulatory compliance reviews, outreach, staffing support, writing, research, and other functions to facilitate timely submission of AVS deliverables.
Applies regulatory experience and expert technical knowledge of aviation safety regulations, as well as an understanding of new technologies and methodologies, to solve complex problems and develop improved technical processes or systems. Develops plans, techniques, and policies to address current or anticipated problems and issues. Monitors the execution of the program portfolio and its component projects, ensuring that it continues to meet the original design objectives. Plans and implements solutions to address quality control issues and selects appropriate qualitative or quantitative methods to be used in quality control of key safety system programs to assess and identify shortfalls and recommends solutions for preventive action, measure progress, continuous improvement and success.
Uses experience planning and implementing projects to define, organize, and assign resources to accomplish organizational objectives. Allocates resources to accomplish large work activities within established schedules. Works with manager in defining project scope, goals and deliverable; defining tasks and required resources; collecting and managing project team inputs, managing budget, and allocating project resources. Participates in technical working groups and ad hoc advisory committees.
Collaborates and engages in discussions related to the Agency's mission and ensuring the operation and safety of the National Airspace System (NAS). Participates in a variety of complex studies and researches projects to measure, assess, and evaluate the effect of changes and trends pertinent to the activities of the agency’s aviation safety programs. Identifies and resolves complex individual transactional or aviation safety programmatic issues and interprets regulatory and policy and compliance issues related to statues, regulations and program requirements to develop improvement to technical processes or systems. Provides policy guidance and instruction to others, both internally and externally.
Contacts are internal and external. Often represents 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, including senior level executives and program sponsors/owners. Coordinates significant technical matters with representatives of external organizations provide input, coordinate approvals, and to measure and report progress. Presents briefings to obtain consensus/approval on policies. Coordinates significant technical matters with representatives of external organizations. Plays a lead role in drafting, reviewing, and editing reports for final approval prior to external distribution.
Contributes to the preparation and dissemination of the Office's written materials by drafting and editing talking points, fact sheets, briefing materials, memorandum, and other materials for conducting, facilitating, and supporting committee meetings, external outreach, briefings, reports, and speeches. Ensures information on activities are communicated in an effective and timely manner throughout the Agency.
Work is reviewed rarely, typically though status reports and at project completion, to ensure technical compliance and alignment with the requirements of the project or other work activity.
How to Apply
You must apply online to receive consideration. Your application must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the Close Date for it to be accepted. If you are applying for positions associated with FAA registers, your application must be submitted at the time a referral list is created in order to receive consideration for positions associated with a register.
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Next steps
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