Aviation Safety Inspector (Air Carrier Flight Oversight - APOI)

Federal Aviation Administration • Denver, CO

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Assistant Principal Oversight Inspector (APOI) serves as a full assistant to a Principal Inspector, performing certification, surveillance, and inspection duties for assigned air carriers, air operators, air agencies, airmen, and designees. The role has program responsibility for ensuring assigned organizations meet Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) requirements related to flight oversight programs and assists in establishing inspection and surveillance work programs.

Under the general direction of the Principal Inspector or Supervisory Principal Inspector, the APOI performs technical administration, certification, and surveillance duties. This includes monitoring organizations’ staffing, equipment, training, records, facilities, and procedures; evaluating manuals and training programs; assessing operations and facilities; and monitoring flight oversight activities. The inspector may direct corrective action, conduct investigations, take enforcement-related actions, and coordinate with FAA personnel, industry organizations, and legal counsel.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Selective Service registration is required for males born after December 31, 1959.
• Must submit an SF-50.
• Applicants must meet the Office of Personnel Management Qualification Standards.
• Recency of specialized experience is waived for applicants currently in the 1825 series.

Responsibilities

• Ensure assigned organizations are properly organized, staffed, equipped, and trained, and maintain adequate recordkeeping systems, facilities, and procedures.
• Chair joint FAA and industry meetings, maintain contact with assigned organizations, and coordinate with their top management officials.
• Require or direct correction of deficiencies and discrepancies, and refuse or withdraw approval when issues cannot be resolved.
• Conduct enforcement investigations and prepare final reports and recommendations on their disposition.
• Perform or supervise emergency certificate suspensions or cancellations of flight oversight specifications.
• Conduct or direct reexaminations of certificated airmen or recertification of operators or agencies.
• Investigate public complaints, congressional inquiries, and aircraft incidents and accidents.
• Provide technical assistance to legal counsel, testify at court trials and formal hearings, and give dispositions.
• Coordinate minimum equipment list (MEL) approvals with the principal inspector and take enforcement action for MEL noncompliance.
• Coordinate with geographic inspectors on non-routine air carrier surveillance.
• Approve, accept, disapprove, or reject manuals and revisions, and require amendments to address regulatory conflicts, unsafe practices, or insufficient instructions.
• Evaluate and approve or disapprove training programs, including associated flight simulators, training devices, and other equipment.
• Approve or disapprove check-airman designations and recommend appointments of designees.
• Evaluate operations and facilities through on-site inspections and review of reports from geographic inspectors or others.
• Negotiate necessary or desirable changes to organizational policies and procedures, determine corrective-action methods, and assess the effectiveness of corrective actions.
• Evaluate requests to operate under conditions not previously authorized and prescribe additional conditions or limitations as appropriate.
• Approve original flight oversight specifications and issue original operating certificates; approve amendments to flight oversight specifications.
• Evaluate the safety of proposed route or airport authorization changes and prescribe changes required before approval.
• Direct or participate in flight evaluations to determine compliance with 14 CFR and recommend changes required before approval.
• Monitor all phases of flight oversight, including training programs and records, base and station facilities, and route systems.
• Review reports and coordinate with geographic inspectors and others to identify trends indicating deterioration in operational safety, and direct or suggest corrective changes.
• Monitor the activities of designated examiners, check airmen, and instructors.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• A comprehensive federal employee benefits package is available to eligible employees and their families.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed