The FAA is now accepting applications from experienced candidates to fill aviation safety positions at various facilities throughout the country.
These positions are critical to the agency’s mission to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world, agency officials said.
The FAA is hiring:
- Aviation Safety Inspectors to administer, investigate, and enforce safety regulations and standards for the production, operation, maintenance, and modification of all flying aircraft. Aviation Safety Inspectors work in four specialty areas: Avionics, maintenance, operations, and manufacturing.
- Aviation Safety Technicians to provide technical support to safety inspectors for inspections or investigations. This includes searching for, gathering, screening, and providing facts or explanations related to an inspection, investigation, or compliance program.
- Aerospace Engineers to ensure the continued operational safety of manufacturers’ aviation and space products from airplanes to spaceports. Aerospace engineers have opportunities in two key disciplines: Aircraft certification and commercial space transportation.
- Operations Research Analysts to provide expert analytical support and to conduct significant analytical studies and projects related to aviation. Operation research analysts also use advanced techniques, data mining, statistical analysis, and mathematical modeling to develop solutions for business processes and to enhance oversight for all commercial operations.
- Medical Officers to determine medical qualifications for complex medical conditions referred for further review. Medical officers also support specialty panels at the request of the Federal Air Surgeon and assist the Medical Education Division with seminar presentations.
For more information on qualifications and specialized experience, go to FAA.gov/Jobs to find out application deadlines or USAJobs.gov to start their applications.
Then there is this:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5792622329001/#sp=show-clips
To Henry K. Cooper. Do not feel too sad. In other parts of the World the Authorities are hiring people with no brains, insight or aviation passion. Consider yourself well-off.
I’m ex-FAA (29 years in MIDO.), and over the last 8 years or so, people were being hired if they had a pulse. Really sad.
Hi Henry it’s me formerly Van Nuys. You are so right. At one time to qualify for FAA jobs you had to have a diverse background in aviation not just the military. Manufacturing offices required manufacturing experience in quality as did the Engineering branches not just a degree from school. The Flt Standards required a A&P, Avionics and Operations (pilot) certificates. Within the past ten years all you needed is to have some buddy on the inside make recommendations and open some doors and with a line of BS they would look at you for hiring.
That’s about it. And I have some stories, believe me!
Newbies may not know a Piper Cub from a Jumbo Jet, but if they are adept on a computer, they’re in. And when it takes longer at the computer to do an expense report, and do a facility report in CMIS than it takes to do a facility oversight visit, there’s something very wrong. IT guys have no business telling FAA what to do and how to do it!
As for those of us who had been active A&Ps, IAs, DMIRs, quality managers, etc., and who had come up from the trenches the hard way, it doesn’t seem to mean a thing anymore.