Supervisory Air Traffic Control Specialist, Operations Manager

  • Federal Aviation Administration
  • Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Full Time
Supervisory Air Traffic Control Specialist, Operions Manager (AT-2152-KK)

Department of Transportion

Federal Aviion Administrion

Air Traffic Organizion, Western-Pacific Region, Los Angeles District, Las Vegas TRACON (TWLA1-L30)

Summary

Serves as an Operions Manager in a terminal or en route facility, responsible for planning and directing the operions in the facility; or planning and directing multiple support activities for the facility such as training, quality assurance, traffic management, airspace and procedures, plans and programs, and other facility program areas.

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Summary

Serves as an Operions Manager in a terminal or en route facility, responsible for planning and directing the operions in the facility; or planning and directing multiple support activities for the facility such as training, quality assurance, traffic management, airspace and procedures, plans and programs, and other facility program areas.

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Overview

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Accepting applicions

Open & closing des

05/18/2026 to 05/27/2026

Salary

$173,418 - $221,108 per year

Salary cited above includes a locality-based payment of 19.57%.

Pay scale & grade

AT KK

Locion

Las Vegas, NV

1 vacancy

Telework eligible

No

Travel Required

25% or less - The job may require up to 25% travel.

Relocion expenses reimbursed

No

Appointment type

Temporary - 1 Year - See Note

Work schedule

Full-time

Service

Excepted

Promotion potential

NA

Job family (Series)

2152 Air Traffic Control

Supervisory stus

Yes

Security clearance

Other

Drug test

No

Announcement number

AWP-ATO-26-14ATP-98724

Control number

869350300

This job is open to

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Internal to an agency

Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement.

Clarificion from the agency

ATO Wide: This announcement is open to Air Traffic Organizion employees only.

Duties

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Serves as an Operions Manager in an ATC-11 level terminal facility.

Directs a highly technical workforce th provides either air traffic control services and/or tactical and stregic support. The work impacts the effectiveness and efficiency of the day-to day operions of the facility. Work typically impacts the safe, orderly, and expeditious movement of aircraft as well as the efficient operion of segments of the aviion industry.

Provides training, coaching and guidance to subordines and facilites team building throughout area(s) of responsibility.

Integres support resources with operional needs to maintain effective air traffic control service and may work other than administrive shifts to meet this requirement. Using measures of organizional performance, continuously reviews work processes to assure th results meet the agency's mission and the customer's needs, adds value to facility services, and are efficiently achieved.

Assigns and reviews work. Plans work and set priorities and schedules. Approves leave; prepares schedules for completion of work; assigns work to subordines based on priorities; evalues work performance of subordines ensuring equity of performance standards and rings; gives advice on work and on administrive mters; Identifies and arranges for developmental and other training needs of subordines. Makes decisions on work problems presented by subordines; hears and resolves group grievances and serious employee complaints; effects disciplinary actions; recommends/approves selections and transfers; recommends/approves awards. Deals with labor representives concerning workforce issues. Adjusts staffing levels and work procedures to accommode resource decisions made higher levels. Provides input to and contributes to the accomplishment of facility goals and objectives. Serves as a member of the management team to improve organizional performance and to meet stregic goals.

Communices and reinforces team and individual responsibility and professionalism in all areas of responsibility, including selections, training, and transfers. Participes in the labor-management partnership process and fosters a work environment where all employees are treed in a fair and equitable manner.

The Operions Manager reports to the Air Traffic Manager. Performance is evalued upon the effectiveness with which assigned program objectives are achieved.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

US Citizenship is required.

Selective Service Registrion is required for males born after 12/31/1959.

Must submit an SF50 (See Required Documents).

REQUIRED: Page 1 of FAA Form 3330-43; Ring of Air Traffic Experience

Qualificions

1) Must have held a FAA 2152 FV-J/FG-14 or above regional or headquarters positions for least 1 year (52 weeks); OR

2) Must have been facility red or area certified for least 1 year (52 weeks) an Air Traffic Services (ATS) facility; (Note: an employee who has been facility red or area certified for least 1 year (52 weeks) in an ATS facility th is upgraded is considered to meet the qualificion requirements of the upgraded position, since he or she has been performing the higher-graded work; OR

3) Must have held a MSS position for least 1 year (52 weeks) in an ATS facility. In addition, to be eligible, applicant must have held a MSS-2 or above position for a minimum of 1 year (52 weeks).

NOTE: There are no restrictions on who can apply to MSS vacancies those facilities with 3 or less MSS levels.

In addition to the qualificions listed above for MSS positions, the chart on MSS positions used to determine which career level applicants are qualified to make applicion.

Educion

Educion may not be substituted for experience.

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Make sure your resume includes detailed informion to support your qualificions and answers to the job questionnaire.

Additional informion

We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions.

Position may be subject to a background investigion.

A one-year probionary period may be required.

The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure stement within 30 days of entry on duty. FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviion-reled companies. www.faa.gov/jobs/workinghere/financial-disclosure-requirements

Evaluion Criteria (EMP-1.14; FAA Managerial Workforce Planning MSC-10.4): Eligible candides evalued based on FAA Managerial Workforce Planning Selection Factors 1 through 4.

In the text box following each Managerial Workforce Planning (MWP) Selection Factors, please provide a brief explanion of your possession of the applicable factors. Applicants who fail to address the Managerial Selection Factors disqualified.

NOTE: This is a temporary assignment NTE (1) year; cannot be made permanent.

In accordance with HRPM EMP 1.29/1.29a, this position may be a Career Enhancement Assignment/Career Progression. The selectee(s) may be eligible for pay retention. Career Diversity is not enhanced when an employee is assigned to a staff or supervisory position in which they previously held on a permanent basis. CEP/CP selectees required to certify eligibility.

Requirement for Security Clearance: Selection and placement are contingent upon waiver or completion of sisfactory security requirements

Supervisory/Managerial Probionary Period Requirement: One-year supervisory/managerial probionary period may be required.

Some, all or none of the candides may be interviewed.

This is not a bargaining unit position.

Links to Important Informion: Locality Pay , COLA

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Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution.

Benefits

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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits .

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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered.

How you evalued

You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.

IMPORTANT: Applicants may be red on the extent and quality of experience, educion, and training relevant to the duties of the position(s). All answers provided in the on-line process must be substantied. Ensure th your applicion package/resume supports your responses.

Benefits

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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits .

Review our benefits

Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered.

Required documents

Required Documents

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In addition to uploading a resume and all other required applicion forms, applicants must complete and submit the first page of the FAA Form 3330-43, Ring of Air Traffic Experience. The form must include from and to des of experience, position title, series, and grade/level of all positions held. The form must be submitted either by uploading a copy as an tachment to the applicion through USAJOBS or fax the form to .... It must be received in the HRMD by the closing de of this announcement. Applicants considered ineligible if forms are not received in HR by the closing de of this announcement.

NOTE: Applicants are reminded th FAA Form 3330-43 is required and NOT FAA Form 3330-43-1.

If you are an FAA employee, you MUST provide a copy of your SF-50 (Notificion of Personnel Action) containing informion in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organizion of record by the closing de of the announcement. You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line applicion. If faxing the SF-50, please ensure you include the vacancy announcement number on the faxed copy.

If you are an FAA employee, you can access and print your SF-50 from the eOPF system .

Forms: FAA-3330-43 : Ring of Air Traffic Experience

If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:

Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from

schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .

Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.

How to Apply

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Applicants may be required to complete one or multiple assessments as part of the evaluion process. This assessment aims to evalue the competencies and qualificions essential for the position.

You must apply online to receive considerion. Your applicion must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the Close De for it to be accepted. If you are applying for positions associed with FAA registers, your applicion must be submitted the time a referral list is creed in order to receive considerion for positions associed with a register.

RESUMES ARE LIMITED TO TWO PAGES. IN DESCRIBING YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC AND INCLUDE INFORMATION AS IT RELATES TO THE QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS POSITION.

Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following informion:

Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job)

Relevant work experience: should align to the Job Announcement and address all required qualificions and include job title, employer name, start/end des, number of hours worked per week.

Educion, certificion or licensure: If required, educion should include school/institution name, completion de, degree type and GPA.

Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above informion and failure to provide ALL of this informion may result in a finding of ineligible.

You may upload completed documents to your USAJOBS Account. This will provide you the opportunity to utilize the uploaded informion again when applying for future vacancies.

Agency contact informion

Taelor Payne, Human Resources Specialist

Phone

...

Fax

...

...

Address

Federal Aviion Administrion

AWP Regional HR Services Branch

777 S. Aviion Blvd. - Suite 150

AHF-S110

El Segundo, CA 90245

US

Next steps

Once we receive your complete applicion, the Human Resources Office will conduct an evaluion of your qualificions. Eligible and qualified candides referred to the hiring manager for considerion. You contacted directly if selected for an interview.

For instructions on how to check the stus of your applicion, please go to: USAJOBS Help Guide .

Important - If you make any changes to your applicion, you must resubmit it. If you make changes to your applicion and do not resubmit it, your changes will not be considered part of your applicion package, and only your previously submitted applicion evalued.

All qualified applicants considered regardless of political affiliion, race, color, religion, nional origin, gender, sexual oriention, marital stus, age, disability, or other non-merit factors. DOT provides reasonable accommodions to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process, please notify the agency contact listed in the Agency Contact Informion section of this announcement or the hiring manager. An employee with a disability must notify the decision-maker of the accommodion request. Job applicants and employees are required to follow up oral requests in writing. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodion made on a case-by-case basis. Additional informion on reasonable accommodions procedures or on EEO Programs is available on Office of Civil Rights (ACR) or by contacting the local FAA Civil Rights Office.

Fair and transparent

The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.

Criminal history inquiries

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy

Financial suitability

New employee probionary period

Privacy Act

Reasonable accommodion policy

Selective Service

Signure and false stements

Social security number request

Required Documents

Help

In addition to uploading a resume and all other required applicion forms, applicants must complete and submit the first page of the FAA Form 3330-43, Ring of Air Traffic Experience. The form must include from and to des of experience, position title, series, and grade/level of all positions held. The form must be submitted either by uploading a copy as an tachment to the applicion through USAJOBS or fax the form to .... It must be received in the HRMD by the closing de of this announcement. Applicants considered ineligible if forms are not received in HR by the closing de of this announcement.

NOTE: Applicants are reminded th FAA Form 3330-43 is required and NOT FAA Form 3330-43-1.

If you are an FAA employee, you MUST provide a copy of your SF-50 (Notificion of Personnel Action) containing informion in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organizion of record by the closing de of the announcement. You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line applicion. If faxing the SF-50, please ensure you include the vacancy announcement number on the faxed copy.

If you are an FAA employee, you can access and print your SF-50 from the eOPF system .

Forms: FAA-3330-43 : Ring of Air Traffic Experience

If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:

Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from

schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .

Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.

How to Apply

Help

Applicants may be required to complete one or multiple assessments as part of the evaluion process. This assessment aims to evalue the competencies and qualificions essential for the position.

You must apply online to receive considerion. Your applicion must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the Close De for it to be accepted. If you are applying for positions associed with FAA registers, your applicion must be submitted the time a referral list is creed in order to receive considerion for positions associed with a register.

RESUMES ARE LIMITED TO TWO PAGES. IN DESCRIBING YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC AND INCLUDE INFORMATION AS IT RELATES TO THE QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS POSITION.

Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following informion:

Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job)

Relevant work experience: should align to the Job Announcement and address all required qualificions and include job title, employer name, start/end des, number of hours worked per week.

Educion, certificion or licensure: If required, educion should include school/institution name, completion de, degree type and GPA.

Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above informion and failure to provide ALL of this informion may result in a finding of ineligible.

You may upload completed documents to your USAJOBS Account. This will provide you the opportunity to utilize the uploaded informion again when applying for future vacancies.

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Agency contact informion

Taelor Payne, Human Resources Specialist

Phone

...

Fax

...

...

Address

Federal Aviion Administrion

AWP Regional HR Services Branch

777 S. Aviion Blvd. - Suite 150

AHF-S110

El Segundo, CA 90245

US

Next steps

Once we receive your complete applicion, the Human Resources Office will conduct an evaluion of your qualificions. Eligible and qualified candides referred to the hiring manager for considerion. You contacted directly if selected for an interview.

For instructions on how to check the stus of your applicion, please go to: USAJOBS Help Guide .

Important - If you make any changes to your applicion, you must resubmit it. If you make changes to your applicion and do not resubmit it, your changes will not be considered part of your applicion package, and only your previously submitted applicion evalued.

All qualified applicants considered regardless of political affiliion, race, color, religion, nional origin, gender, sexual oriention, marital stus, age, disability, or other non-merit factors. DOT provides reasonable accommodions to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process, please notify the agency contact listed in the Agency Contact Informion section of this announcement or the hiring manager. An employee with a disability must notify the decision-maker of the accommodion request. Job applicants and employees are required to follow up oral requests in writing. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodion made on a case-by-case basis. Additional informion on reasonable accommodions procedures or on EEO Programs is available on Office of Civil Rights (ACR) or by contacting the local FAA Civil Rights Office.

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Fair and transparent

The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.

Criminal history inquiries

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy

Financial suitability

New employee probionary period

Privacy Act

Reasonable accommodion policy

Selective Service

Signure and false stements

Social security number request

Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/18/2026 to 05/27/2026 Salary $173,418 - $221,108 per year Salary cited above includes a locality-based payment of 19.57%. Pay scale & grade AT KK Locion Las Vegas, NV 1 vacancy Telework eligible No Travel Required 25% or less - The job may require up to 25% travel. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Temporary - 1 Year - See Note Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential NA Job family (Series) Supervisory stus Yes Security clearance Drug test No Announcement number AWP-ATO-26-14ATP-98724 Control number 869350300
Job ID: 522162194
Originally Posted on: 5/22/2026

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