Supervisory Aviation Technical Systems Specialist (Division Director)

Federal Aviation Administration •

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Position Type: Contractor

Job Description:
As a supervisor/manager, the selectee for this position will be eligible to receive a Manager Performance Incentive (MPI) provided eligibility requirements noted in agency policy are met. The MPI is an annual lump-sum incentive payment that considers agency performance, the managers individual performance, and available funding.

Serves as Division Director for the Office of Airports, Central Regional Airports Division.

Duties

Provides oversight and leadership for day to day operations; and ensures the Region meets the FAAs Strategic Initiatives for the Region. Plans, formulates, directs, implements and evaluates Airports programs in the Region. These programs include airport safety and certification, airport and system planning, capacity management, environmental processing, financial assistance programs (Airport Improvement Program and Passenger Facility Program), engineering and design, and compliance requirements.

Division Director assumes full responsibility and authority in the operation of the Airports Divisions aviation programs and is responsible for providing oversight and ensuring successful completion of large complex and politically sensitive airport projects that involves extensive coordination with various internal and external stakeholders. In addition, the incumbent has full responsibility and will be held responsible to oversee, direct and deliver on unusually complex initiatives and projects.

Monitors and implements the strategic plan for organizational projects/programs to ensure the successful completion of goals and initiatives. In addition this position provides leadership for strategic planning, integration of initiatives/activities, conducting operational and/or organizational analysis, evaluating studies, providing recommendations on operational topics and ensuring collaborative decision-making across the organization.

Utilizes technical knowledge of FAA Airports policies, programs, Federal laws and regulations, to provide oversight, develop schedules, and make decisions on program and project implementation. Serves as the technical advisor to the Associate and Deputy Associate Administrators.

Defines, acquires, and assigns tasks and responsibilities to accomplish objectives, and provides oversight and management to ensure that region-wide programs operate effectively and efficiently, and are in compliance with regulatory requirements, and promote the accomplishment of FAAs goals and objectives.

Exercises the full range of supervisory responsibilities to include strategic planning, communicating the organizations vision and objectives; setting priorities; assigning tasks and responsibilities; monitoring and evaluating performance of organizational units, managers and employees; coaching and developing staff; approving leave; and taking corrective/disciplinary actions as appropriate.

Utilizes knowledge of personnel and other administrative policies and procedures to monitor, direct, and provide oversight of administrative staff and programs such as budget, hiring and other administrative programs. The incumbent is responsible for ensuring training requirements are being met and ensures that the broad technical staff has the required guidance to carry out airport programs and safety oversight functions.

Creates positive working relationships to ensure coordinated responses with counterparts at the appropriate levels of the Airports organization, other FAA organizations, Federal or State offices, Congressional staff, etc. to enable problem solving at the lowest level. Builds and develops relationships with key personnel to ensure successful completion of complex projects.

Communicates presentations to a diverse audience to include senior executives, front-line employees, aviation industry representatives, and the general public. Maintains close and continuing contact with key representatives with both internal and external customers. Contacts are with customers and key representatives, often times in meetings, conferences or in unplanned situations where the incumbent is designated as a point of contact; and where these meetings have direct impact on the implementation of goals for Regional projects/programs. Communicates and reinforces diversity and EEO policies and programs in all areas of responsibility.

Job Requirements:
Requirements 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).
Designated or Random Drug Testing required.
A one-year supervisory/managerial probationary period may be required.
This is not a remote position. The incumbent is expected to report to the assigned duty station for this position.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the FV-K/FG-15. 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 for this position include:

Experience leading and developing employees.
Direct technical or management level involvement in processes related to airport planning, environmental review of airport infrastructure development and/or civil airport capital financial management.

You should include relevant examples of specialized experience in your work history. Error or omissions may impact your rating or may result in you not being considered.

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

As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Leadership and Management Dimension 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 Dimension.

In lieu of providing a Leadership and Management Dimension narrative response in the text box listed below each Dimension, in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each Dimension. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your Leadership and Management Dimension 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 Leadership and Management Dimensions and Technical Requirements 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.

Education

Education may not be substituted for experience for this position.

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.

Required Documents

If for some reason you are unable to submit your required documents with your application in the system by the closing date of the announcement, you may send them to my email at Kelsey.R.Schmidt@faa.gov BEFORE the closing date of the announcement. Failure to submit them before the closing date of the announcement will result in them not being considered with your application package.

Applicants claiming eligibility for the Expanded Veterans Hiring Opportunity (EVHO), MUST submit a DD Form 214 reflecting character of service to verify eligibility by the closing date of the announcement as requested by the Human Resource Office. Eligibility for EVHO will be considered based on applicable documentation submitted by the closing date.

If you are a current or former Federal employee (including a current 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 a current Federal employee and need a current copy of your SF-50, please contact your personnel office. If you are an FAA employee, you can access and print your SF-50 from the eOPF system https://eopf.opm.gov/dot/. If you are a former Federal employee, you can obtain a copy of your SF-50 by writing the National Personnel Records Center Annex, 1411 Boulder Boulevard, Valmeyer, IL 62295. Additional information is available from this link: https://www.archives.gov/st-louis/opf.

Expanded Veterans Hiring Opportunity (EVHO) are preference eligibles and veterans who are honorably discharged from the Armed Forces after completing at least three (3) years of continuous active service. Applicants claiming eligibility for EVHO, MUST submit a DD Form 214 reflecting character of service to verify eligibility by the closing date of the announcement as requested by the Human Resource Office. Eligibility for EVHO will be considered based on applicable documentation submitted by the closing date.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

Salary Range: $154,921 - $221,900

Job Ident #: 796085800

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