Air Traffic Control Specialist

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: Serves as an Air Traffic Control Specialist in an Army Airfield Control Tower responsible for the efficient use of the Class D airspace and traffic patterns to minimize delays and maximize effective mission time for aviators under tower control.

You will provide tower control services using visual and Control Tower Radar Display (CTRD) data and apply IFR separation standards and procedures.

You will coordinate instructions to separate and sequence aircraft conducting simultaneous arrivals and departures to a complex array of runways, landing pads and parallel taxiways including several landing areas not visible from the tower.

As a flight data specialist, you will receive, post, and relay flight data to the local controller and ground control/clearance delivery.

You will provide instructions and advisories to insure an orderly flow of traffic operating under Visual Flight Rules (VFR) within several separate multi-directional feeder corridors.

As a Ground Controller, you will perform ground control/clearance delivery duties, assuring effective movement of aircraft on all areas of the airport.

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.