AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SPECIALIST (TERMINAL)

Summary

You will serve as a AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SPECIALIST (TERMINAL) in the Air Traffic Control Division of NAVAL AIR STATION.

Duties

• You will ensure safe, orderly, and expeditious movement of air traffic.
• You will provide preflight, in-flight, and post-flight assistance to aircraft.
• You will issue control instructions to ensure separation or flying within and between delegated airspace.
• You will decode and issue weather reports, runway information, type approach, lost communication, and missed approach procedures to be used.
• You will document initial accident and incident records and forward to appropriate Branch Chiefs/ATCFO promptly.

Qualifications

For GS-12: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Assisting lost aircraft, aircraft in distress, and aircraft experiencing in-flight difficulties; 2) Providing Air Traffic Control knowledge of operations, methods, and techniques to ensure safe and effective air traffic flow; 3) Following regulations and procedures governing the control and separation of air traffic; and 4) Providing training to civilian and military air traffic controllers. NOTE: Experience must be fully supported in your resume to be considered for this position. For GS-11: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-10 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following:1) Providing air traffic control for assigned airspace; 2) Following regulations and procedures governing the control and separation of air traffic; and 3) Ensuring air traffic control operations, methods, and techniques are followed in a safe and effective manner. NOTE: Experience must be fully supported in your resume to be considered for this position. You must have extensive and thorough knowledge of ATC operations, methods and techniques demonstrated by a minimum of four years' experience as a certified Air Traffic Controller with two years' experience in ATC Radar. You must have knowledge including but not limited to meteorology, air navigation, standard air traffic control communications and phraseology, performance characteristics of various types of aircraft, types and uses of aids to air navigation and the regulation and procedures governing the control and separation of air traffic. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: Air Traffic Control Series 2152 (opm.gov)Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/2100/air-traffic-control-series-2152. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.