The Airfield Operations Specialist ensures the safe takeoff and landing of commercial and military aircraft.
Duties:
The Airfield Operations duties include coordination between air-traffic control and maintenance personnel; dispatching; using airfield landing and navigational aids; implementing airfield safety procedures; monitoring and maintaining flight records; and applying knowledge of weather information.
Activities:
The Airfield Operations Specialist implements airfield safety procedures to ensure a safe operating environment for personnel and aircraft operation. The Airfield Operations Specialist plan and coordinate airfield construction. The Airfield Operations Specialist is responsible to coordinate with agencies such as air traffic control, civil engineers, and command posts to ensure support of airfield management activities. The Airfield Operations Specialist monitors the arrival, parking, refueling, loading and department of all aircraft. The Airfield Operations Specialist maintains air-to-ground and point-to-point radio contact with aircraft commanders. The Airfield Operations Specialist trains operations staff in their job function duties. The Airfield Operations Specialist relays departure, arrival, delay, aircraft and airfield status, and other pertinent information to up line controlling agencies. The Airfield Operations Specialist procure, produce, and provide information on the safe operation of aircraft, such as flight planning publications, operations publications, charts and maps, and weather information. The Airfield Operations Specialist coordinates communications between air traffic control and maintenance personnel. The Airfield Operations Specialist performs and supervises airfield management activities, including mobile airfield management functions.
Knowledge:
The Airfield Operations Specialist needs knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. The Airfield Operations Specialist needs knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. The Airfield Operations Specialist needs knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits. The Airfield Operations Specialist needs knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for protection of people, data, property and institutions. The Airfield Operations Specialist needs knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
The Airfield Operations Specialist needs knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronics equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. The Airfield Operations Specialist needs knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. The Airfield Operations Specialist needs knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology. The Airfield Operations Specialist needs knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life. The Airfield Operations Specialist needs knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
Skills:
The Airfield Operations Specialist must give full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. The Airfield Operations Specialist needs the skill to understand written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. They must be able to talk to others to convey information effectively. In other words the people that they are training must understand the instructions and clients should understand what is necessary to be done. The Airfield Operations Specialist uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. The Airfield Operations Specialist must understand the implications of new information for both current and future problem solving and decision making. The Airfield Operations Specialist must be able to communicate effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
The Airfield Operations Specialist must consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. They must have the skill to identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. The Airfield Operations Specialist needs the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. The Airfield Operations Specialist needs the ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. They need the ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.