Aviation Safety Inspector (Air Carrier Operations)

## Aviation Safety Inspector (Operations)

Join our team as an Aviation Safety Inspector, focusing on air carrier operations. This role involves critical oversight, inspection, certification, and enforcement of aviation regulations to ensure public safety.

### Key Responsibilities:

• Perform expert technical functions in certification activities for CFR Part 25 Transport Aircraft and support CFR Part 121 air carriers/operators.
• Conduct inspections, investigations, and ensure compliance with aviation laws and regulations.
• Develop and apply advanced techniques, legal processes, and innovative approaches to solve complex problems.
• Enforce Federal Aviation Regulations.

### General Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Valid State driver's license.
• Fluency in the English language.
• No more than two separate incidents of Federal aviation regulation violations in the last 5 years.
• No chemical dependencies or drug abuse that could interfere with job performance.

### Medical Requirements:

• Good distant vision in each eye and ability to read printed materials (corrected vision permitted).
• Ability to hear conversational voice (hearing aid permitted).
• No physical condition that would pose a hazard to self or others, or interfere with flying as a passenger in various aircraft.
• **For positions requiring aircraft operation:** Possess a valid Second-Class FAA Medical Certificate and pass recurrent medical examinations.
• **Department of Navy Specific:** Must be physically qualified to ride as an observer aboard squadron aircraft, travel, and lift heavy objects during mishap investigations.

### Aviation Safety Inspector (Operations) Specific Qualifications:

• Minimum 1,500 total flight hours.
• Minimum 100 flight hours during the last 3 years.
• At least 1 year of pilot experience in multi-engine aircraft of more than 12,500 pounds maximum certificated takeoff weight.
• Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) Certificate or Commercial Pilot Certificate with instrument airplane rating. (Department of Navy positions require pilot experience demonstrated by previous ATP-level performance in large multi-engine airplanes and helicopters).
• Professional flying skill demonstrated in a simulator check to Airline Transport Pilot Standard.
• Not more than 2 flying accidents during the last 5 years in which the applicant's pilot error was involved.

### FG-14 Level (Specialized Experience):

• One year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-I, FG/GS-13 grade levels.
• Mastery of, and skill in applying, complex aviation laws and regulations to inspection, investigation, enforcement, and/or compliance work.
• Experience developing new techniques, legal processes, and innovative approaches for certification activities.