Aviation Safety Inspector (Avionics) - Assistant Principal Avionics Inspector

Quick Facts

• Role: Assistant Principal Avionics Inspector (Assistant Aviation Safety Inspector)
• Focus: Aviation safety certification, surveillance, and inspections for air carriers and related organizations
• Program responsibility: Compliance with 14 CFR for maintenance, preventive maintenance, and alteration programs

Description

Serve as a full assistant to the Principal Inspector (Avionics) to carry out certification, surveillance, and inspection duties for assigned air carriers, operators, agencies, airmen, and designees. Maintain program responsibility to ensure assigned organizations meet Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) for maintenance, preventive maintenance, and alteration programs.

Responsibilities

• Technical administration: Ensure organizations are staffed, equipped, and trained; maintain records; chair FAA/industry meetings; coordinate with top management; require corrective action or withdraw approvals for unresolved deficiencies.
• Certification: Support initial and ongoing certification; review and approve operations specifications and amendments; review maintenance manuals and airworthiness program documentation; evaluate training, reliability, and compliance with 14 CFR.
• Surveillance: Direct inspection and monitoring of the continuous airworthiness program across maintenance, engineering, quality control, production control, training, and reliability; analyze trends to identify deterioration.
• Investigations & enforcement: Conduct enforcement actions, investigations of public complaints and incidents/accidents, and support legal proceedings (including technical assistance and testimony).

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship required
• Selective Service registration required for males born after 12/31/1959
• Submit SF50
• Security requirements must be waived or completed
• Meet OPM qualification standards including FAA-related incident limits, English fluency, valid driver’s license, and no disqualifying chemical dependencies
• High school diploma (or equivalent)
• Medical and physical requirements to safely perform duties; for aircraft-operation participation, hold a valid FAA second-class medical certificate and pass recurrent exams
• Air carrier avionics specialized requirements: experience maintaining/repairing/troubleshooting installed avionics systems; avionics maintenance on aircraft >12,500 lb MTOW; and avionics work experience (including supervision/auditing) in an eligible repair or government environment within the last 3 years
• Specialized experience equivalent to FV-H, FG/GS-12 level (includes investigating/reporting accidents, incidents, and violations)

Benefits

A comprehensive federal employee benefits package is available; eligibility depends on the position type and schedule.