This position is located in the Safety and Technical Training Service Unit, Technical Training Directorate, Technical Operations Training Group (AJI-2300). This Group is responsible for providing technical training programs that meet requirements set by the Technical Operations Service Unit.
Duties
The Airway Transportation System Specialists is responsible for performing work of broad scope and complexity. Provides the highest organizational level of technical support associated with analyzing and evaluating the most complex aviation equipment, and airport traffic systems for which the FAA is responsible. Using broad experience and comprehensive technical knowledge of aviation communication and navigation equipment, and airport traffic systems, analyzes and evaluates new and updates legacy training initiatives, and coursework. This work directly supports AJI objectives and the safe and continual operation of the National Airspace System (NAS) and contributes to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Safety Culture efforts.
As a technical expert, uses experience operating and maintaining NAS communication, navigation and/or surveillance equipment and systems to review and evaluate NAS change proposals for impacts to national training courses. Applies experience providing On-the-Job Training (OJT) in an FAA facility or airport, to analyze current training courses and curricula to determine the need to revise them or to develop new courses related to communication, navigation and/or surveillance equipment. Uses experience troubleshooting various navigation systems, such as the Instrument Landing System (ILS) to plan the scope and development of new courses. Monitors and reports on progress to all stakeholders. Uses experience testing and repairing communication equipment such as the Terminal Voice Switch (TVS) system to prepare objectives, write course material, and to prepare lesson plans and examinations. Resolves highly complex issues and unique problems that significantly effects technical operations training operations and procedures.
Using field experience installing or maintaining surveillance equipment such as Air/Ground Surveillance, the Requirements Specialist researches and analyzes new technologies for contribution to FAAs short- and long-term training development goals. Incorporates existing and new emerging learning technologies into training delivery strategies and provides customers with training products and services required to conduct and support FAA operations. As requested by the operational service units, uses experience working on joint labor/FAA work groups to develop and implement new and recurrent training courses.
Contacts are both internal and external to the ATO, and in some cases to the FAA as a whole. Often represents AJI as a primary technical point of contact for the evaluation of NAS change proposals for impacts to national training courses. Coordinates and implements plans to obtain information and resolve problems. Provides guidance, instructions and advice to representatives of the ATO operational service units to design, coordinates and integrates business approaches to maximize technical operations training. In some cases, oversees and monitors contractor activity.
The Communication/Navigation/Surveillance Requirements Lead identifies work in terms of priorities, overall objectives, and boundaries. The Specialist identifies resources needed to perform assignments and organizes and assigns resources needed to accomplish large work activities within established schedules. Independently resolves all but unique technical problems. Completed assignments are considered technically authoritative and are reviewed only for general compliance with organizational objectives.