DIRECT HIRE - Aviation Safety Inspector (Operations-Rotorcraft-Helicopter)

Rotorcraft Operations Inspector

Join the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as a Rotorcraft Operations Inspector. The FAA creates a work environment rich in opportunity, diversity, teamwork, and work life balance. Enjoy benefits such as weekends off, paid holidays, steady work hours, sick and annual leave, health insurance, and many more. Begin a rewarding career with the FAA and be a part of a select group of individuals whose mission is to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world!

This job is open to the public. U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Individuals eligible under a special authority not listed above, but defined in the federal hiring regulations.

Duties include aviation safety inspections, technical administration, certification, and surveillance. The selectee serves as a developmental performing duties as assigned without authority for actions or decisions and will be required to complete initial new hire training to include formal and on-the-job training up to 24 months.

Duties and responsibilities at the FG-12 level may include but are not limited to: inspecting at the different aviation facilities; assuring that aviation organizations and airmen comply with regulatory requirements, and reporting deficiencies to the principal inspector or supervisor; conducting the reexamination of certificated airmen or recertification of an operator or agency; conducting investigations of public complaints, congressional inquiries and aircraft incidents and accidents; providing verbal and/or written technical assistance to legal counsel, testifying at court trials and formal hearings, and giving depositions; reviewing manuals associated with certification requirements of air carriers, air agencies, and air operators for accuracy and FAR compliance; evaluating training programs to insure that they meet the requirements of the FARs, including simulators, training devices, and other such equipment, as well as check airmen; performing a variety of airmen certification functions; monitoring pilots, designated pilot examiners, check airmen, and aviation organization operations and training activities; and taking appropriate corrective action for deficiencies noted or making recommendations to principal inspector or supervisor.

Requirements include US citizenship, selective service registration for males born after 12/31/1959, designated or random drug testing, and a resume that includes FAR part numbers and aircraft for which you have experience.

Qualifications include minimum eligibility requirements such as not more than two separate incidents involving Federal Aviation Regulations violations in the last 5 years, a valid state driver's license, fluency in the English language, no chemical dependencies or drug abuse that could interfere with job performance, and a high school graduate or equivalent. Medical requirements include good distant vision in each eye, the ability to hear the conversational voice, no physical conditions that would cause them to be a hazard to themselves or others or that would interfere with their ability to fly as passengers in a variety of aircraft, a valid second-class medical certificate in accordance with FAA regulations, and passing recurrent medical examinations as prescribed by the FAA.

Specialized experience includes minimum 100 flight hours in Rotorcraft-Helicopter in the last three years, commercial helicopter pilot rating with instrument helicopter, or airline transport pilot with helicopter rating, flight instructor certificate rotorcraft helicopter, flight instructor instrument helicopter rating, 1,200 hours of total time requirements, 250 hours of flight time in helicopters, 500 hours of cross-country flight time, and 75 hours of instrument flight time in actual or simulated instrument meteorological conditions.