Aviation Safety Assistant (Office Automation)

Department of Transportation; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 60,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

Department of Transportation seeks an Aviation Safety Assistant (OA) in a Flight Standards field office. The incumbent provides administrative, semi-technical, and clerical support to the supervisor, or manager, Aviation Safety Inspectors, and Administrative Officer.

Responsibilities include using Safety Assurance System tools, obtaining background data, preparing reports, reviewing applications, and maintaining technical files.

Qualifications

• Experience using office automation software programs.
• Ability to research technical data and analyze problems.
• Experience in gathering data, planning and organizing work.
• Experience in writing complex technical and non-technical correspondence and reports.
• Ability to convey information effectively in an office environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative, semi-technical, and clerical support to ASIs and supervisors.
• Prepare reports and maintain technical and administrative files.

Skills

Office software

Data analysis

Research skills

Technical writing

Data gathering

Job description

Incumbent is an Aviation Safety Assistant (OA) in a Flight Standards field office. Provides administrative, semi-technical, and clerical related support to the supervisor, or manager, Aviation Safety Inspectors (ASIs), and Administrative Officer. Utilizes tools relevant to the Safety Assurance System environment which includes obtaining background data, preparing reports, reviewing applications, interviewing applicants, processing certificates, and maintaining technical and administrative files.

To qualify for this position at the FG-7 level, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FG/GS-6 grade level. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and this is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience must include experience that demonstrates skills in utilizing various office automation software programs, researching technical data, analyzing problems, gathering data, recognizing solutions, planning and organizing work; assist in writing complex technical and non-technical correspondence and reports; and conveying information in an office environment.

Qualification requirements 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 Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the 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 KSA.

In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you choose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resources Specialist as appropriate.

Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) 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.