Supervisory Aviation Technical Systems Specialist (Technical Services Manager)

Supervisory Aviation Technical Systems Specialist (Technical Services Manager)

Department: Department of Transportation

Location(s): College Park, Georgia

Salary Range: $166025 - $228000 Per Year

Job Summary: This position serves as a District Manager (DM) within Multiple Air Traffic Organization (ATO), Technical Operations (AJW) Districts. Serves as a principal advisor for respective District operations and reports to the respective Service Area Director of Technical Operations. The incumbent works independently and has broad discretion to ensure alignment with organizational objectives and policies.

Major Duties:

• Directs a highly technical and diverse workforce in ensuring the effective maintenance and repair of the National Airspace System (NAS) equipment and facilities. Incumbent will have day-to-day direction over 3-5 subordinate managers as well as functionally integrated teams of operational and support personnel. Interfaces with management across multiple organizational units and integrates projects/programs across multiple service units. Provides coaching, mentoring, and development of staff and organizational capabilities and is responsible for team-building throughout the facilities in the District. Sets priorities, assigns tasks and responsibilities, and monitors and evaluates performance of organizational units within the District. Approves leave; and takes or approves corrective/disciplinary actions as appropriate. Provides direct support to the Director of Technical Operations to establish, monitor, and sustain Technical Operations initiatives and activities that cross service units within the Air Traffic Organization and the FAA lines of business. Develops new methodologies and techniques to solve organizational challenges and procedures. Conceives, plans, and conducts studies involving complex operational issue and that support the overall Technical Operations Business Plan's activities under the core business measure of ensuring safety and security of the NAS. incumbent leads the implementation of Concept of Operations (CONOPS) evolution within the District. Provides senior level policy guidance, direction, and interpretation of technical operations related areas of NAS programs. Provides expert collaborative analysis of technical information submitted for review of complex and challenging projects and programs that cross technical and operational disciplines and organizational lines of business impacting multiple internal and external organizations. Identifies, assesses, and analyzes significant issues, opportunities, and trends that require senior leadership attention. Serves as the internal and external point of contact for information, and concerns that impact large segments of Technical Operations, ATO and the FAA. Responsible for managing information appropriately to ensure concerns are addressed and issues are resolved. Predicts potential issues and proposes recommendations for preventative action. Ensures consistent responses from operations functions to internal and external organizations Predicts potential issues and proposes recommendations for preventative action. Ensures consistent responses from the operations functions to internal and external organizations. Incumbent will be responsible for the efficient management of an annual budget and for performing system analysis and field support for multiple subordinate operations. Reallocates or acquires additional resources as necessary within and across organization/programs in order to execute goals and accomplish Technical Operations' mission objectives/ Continually reviews, refines and recommends major improvements to operational projects and programs to make sure that they are aligned with long term and short term ATO and FAA goals, objectives and plans. Responsible to ensure successful integration and modernization of the NAS. Participates in planning efforts that cross organizational lines within the Air Traffic Organization. Applies knowledge of the Vice President's and Director's broad goals and objectives and those of the ATO and corporate FAA to identify, define and organize work for multiple work activities. Responsible for quality assurance and reporting for District-wide Technical Operations. Oversees a comprehensive system of metrics reporting and performance evaluations for all technical operations activities associated with NAS operations. Works collaboratively with peers and others, within an, when possible, across Service Area(s) to ensure consistent, corporate approach towards resolution of labor relations issues.

Qualifications: To qualify for this position, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-K or FG/GS-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 is: Experience leading the design, development, modification, and evaluation of complex knowledge pertaining to NAS equipment, procedures, and safety interventions to resolve complex operational issues and support the overall business plan activities Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.

How to Apply: Applicants may be required to complete one or multiple assessments as part of the evaluation process. This assessment aims to evaluate the competencies and qualifications essential for the position. 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. RESUMES ARE LIMITED TO TWO PAGES. IN DESCRIBING YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC AND INCLUDE INFORMATION AS IT RELATES TO THE QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS POSITION. Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following information: Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job) Relevant work experience: should align to the Job Announcement and address all required qualifications and include job title, employer name, start/end dates, number of hours worked per week. Education, certification or licensure: If required, education should include school/institution name, completion date, degree type and GPA. Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above information and failure to provide ALL of this information may result in a finding of ineligible. You may upload completed documents to your USAJOBS Account. This will provide you the opportunity to utilize the uploaded information again when applying for future vacancies.

Application Deadline: 2026-05-13