Air Traffic Control Specialist

Full-time position benefits include employer paid health insurance, life insurance, vacation leave, sick leave, holiday pay and personal days. Other benefits available are vision, dental, and supplemental insurance policies.

This is an Air Traffic Control Specialist (ATC) position working for the Bartow Airport Authority. Employees perform essential functions as outlined herein according to the functional assignment area. The work schedule will be four rotating 10-hour shifts.

The following statements describe the principal functions of this job and its scope of responsibility but should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements. Individuals may perform other duties as assigned, including working in other functional areas to cover absences or relief, to equalize peak work periods, or otherwise to balance the workload.

• Performs established duties independently.
• Executes safe, orderly and expeditious movement of Air Traffic on movement areas and within designated airspace as per 7110.65BB and FAA/Local regulations
• Determines the order of departures that will assure all aircraft equitable treatment and will assure that departing IFR flights operate at the fix, altitude, and the time designated by the center or approach control clearances.
• Determines the times and direction of takeoff and any turns necessary for departure.
• Determines whether inbound aircraft are to land immediately or circle and whether distances are lengthened to control the arrival of an aircraft at a given point.
• Selects the active runway and possible simultaneous use of other runways.
• Determines the time and methods by which arrivals and departures can be interspersed with the least delay to traffic.
• Determines when landing and departing aircraft are cleared to use the runways to assure standard separation between aircraft on the runways.
• Determines the sequence of arriving traffic, before it enters the traffic pattern, to assure a safe, orderly flow of aircraft on final approach to the landing runway.
• Ensures IFR separation standards are applied, as delegated by approach control of the center, in limited areas around the airport to provide initial separation between IFR arrivals and IFR departures and between successive IFR departures.
• Determines the sequence of VFR and IFR traffic.
• Determines when VFR flights through the airport traffic area can be authorized.
• Determines the usability of communications frequencies available to him/her as other navigational aids used to control air traffic.
• Monitors navigational aids and monitors control panels.
• Instructs pilots to change radio frequencies/radar beacon codes.
• Coordinates with the other controllers on movements of both arrival and departure aircraft when appropriate.
• Observes weather from the tower and records pilot reports to determine the effect of present and anticipated weather on traffic.
• Furnishes aircraft with information such as field conditions, altimeter settings, weather conditions, operating status of navigational aids, and observed malfunctioning of aircraft.
• Forwards to the weather bureau and the appropriate center, pilot weather reports and reports based upon personal observation of weather conditions.
• Operates light guns, runway lights, field lighting, jet barriers etc.
• Orients pilots of aircraft lost or in difficulty; determines whether a given situation may need airside operations support, airport administration, and fire and ambulance services.
• Position is subject to drug and/or alcohol testing per the DOT/FAA requirements (pre-employment, random, reasonable cause/suspicion, post-accident).
• Daily data entry into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
• Performs custodial functions including cleaning and sanitizing the work areas and common areas in the tower.
• Required to report to work at the appointed hour, as scheduled, and to work the entire assigned schedule.

• Provide oversight, mentorship, and instructional support for CTO students assigned to Ground / Data position.
• Provide oversight, mentorship, and instructional support for CTO students assigned to the local position.
• Identify skill gaps, procedural misunderstandings, or behavioral issues and provide real-time or post-shift feedback.
• Model professionalism and promote a positive learning culture.
• Completes daily OJTI report for assigned student and submits to the Air Traffic Manager.
• Role includes the potential for prolonged single-manning or solo controlling operations, as operationally required.
• Supports other workers in event of absence.
• Performs other tasks as assigned.

This is a front-line position that provides excellent customer service to members of the public and other Government employees. Service is provided in person, by radio communications, by phone contact, and by email.

Executes assigned duties, including assuming Controller-in-Charge (CIC) or Senior Controller-in-Charge (SCIC) responsibilities when designated.