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Aviation Safety Inspector, Principal Avionics Inspector (Air Carrier Avionics)

Multiple Locations, USA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$106K/yr - $138K/yr

1+ years exp

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is seeking a Principal Avionics Inspector responsible for recommending new and amended regulations for air carrier avionics safety. The role involves developing and implementing standards and programs for FAA field personnel and the public, ensuring compliance with aviation safety issues.

ConsultingGovernmentHuman ResourcesInformation TechnologyInternetStaffing Agency

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

The PAI receives administrative direction from management in terms of broadly defined missions or functions

The PAI, mostly independently plans, designs, and carries out programs, projects, studies, or other work

The PAI provides policy assistance to field level Aviation Safety Inspectors (ASIs) and difficult or complex policy interpretations

The work is normally accepted without change

Completed work may be reviewed for adherence to Federal aviation Administration (FAA) policy and for assurance that project requirements have been fulfilled

Some FG-14 assignments involve Service wide responsibility for application of expert knowledge of flight avionics for an advanced multiengine turbojet aircraft

Such employees are concerned with all aspects of the operational capabilities and limitations of the aircraft

Other FG-14 inspectors establish technical procedures and performance yardsticks

Additionally, the PAI may review complete flight operation or maintenance programs for major air carriers who are leaders in the aviation industry, or who have problems of comparable scope and complexity, or a uniquely complex group of general aviation organizations

Assignments at this level are of great scope and unusual complexity; the organizations monitored are major factors in the industry

As a Service wide expert on a particular type of sophisticated multiengine turbojet aircraft: Advises other inspectors of major changes in the operation of the aircraft; Standardizes procedures and judgments used by inspectors to evaluate the operation of the aircraft; Evaluates new training methods and equipment (e.g., simulators) for initial certification; Serves on national boards that determine the minimum equipment necessary to operate a particular type of aircraft safely; and Serves on boards that evaluate incidents, accidents, complaints, and other serious problems relating to the aircraft

Develops plans to resolve problems

As principal representative in regulatory surveillance of air carrier activities, exercises certificate authority over a major air carrier with very extensive and complex avionics

Analyzes flight involving large fleets of turbojet aircraft engaged in large-scale passenger and freight service; or evaluates maintenance activities and complete aircraft overhaul facilities which are equipped and staffed to handle the latest and most sophisticated turbojet aircraft and associated systems

This level includes responsibility for nationally and internationally prominent carriers who operate the largest, most advanced fleets of turbojet aircraft in the industry

Exercises certificate authority and safety responsibility over a complex of broad and varied major air carriers in terms of size and complexity of aircraft fleet employed, scope and technical complexity of operations, management sophistication, industry leadership, and public impact

The magnitude, intensity, and scope of program responsibility are typically such as to require significant and regular assistance of lower graded inspectors

Qualification

Aircraft avionics experienceAvionics maintenance experienceFederal Aviation Regulations knowledgeInspectionSurveillance skillsFluency in English

Required

High School Diploma or equivalent

Not more than two separate incidents involving Federal Aviation Regulations violations in the last 5 years

Valid State driver's license

Fluency in the English language

No chemical dependencies or drug abuse that could interfere with job performance

Aircraft avionics experience involving the maintenance, repair, and troubleshooting of installed avionics systems on aircraft

Avionics maintenance experience on aircraft of more than 12,500 pounds maximum certificated takeoff weight

One year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression (FG-13), as an Aviation Safety Inspector, Air Carrier Avionics 1825