Air Traffic Control Specialist (Traffic Management Coordinator)

Job Title

The job duties include:

Helping to ensure that traffic management instructions/restrictions are initiated in accordance with established procedures to maintain a safe and expeditious flow of traffic and minimize the impact of heavy flight demands. Assessing the facility's capacity and projecting an acceptable level of traffic.

Issuing appropriate traffic flow restrictions to adjacent facilities, to space, hold, and reroute aircraft to distribute the flow of traffic and equalize workload among positions. Following agency policy when implementing traffic management initiatives.

Maintaining awareness of the traffic flow, equipment status, airport/weather conditions, and traffic forecasts to ensure acceptable levels of traffic, mitigate delays, and avoid flights into undesirable atmospheric conditions. Maintaining familiarization of all phases of facility operations and aeronautical/meteorological conditions.

Maintaining currency on required positions of operation.

Working under the administrative supervision of the Supervisory Traffic Management Coordinator. Performance is evaluated upon the effectiveness with which assigned program objectives are achieved.

Federal Aviation Administration