Aviation Safety Inspector; Airworthiness General Aviation-Maintenance; Assistant Principal Mai
Listed on 2026-01-03
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Engineering
Aerospace / Aviation / Avionics, Environmental Compliance -
Transportation
Aerospace / Aviation / Avionics
The Assistant Principal Inspector (GA
¿ Maintenance) serves as a full assistant to a Principal Inspector (Maintenance) performing the full range of certification, surveillance, and inspection duties for air carriers, air operators, air agencies, airmen, and designees. Duties include program responsibility to assure that assigned organizations meet Federal Aviation Regulations with respect to maintenance, preventive maintenance, and alteration programs.
OPM General Schedule Qualification Standards for Aviation Safety Series, 1825
General Requirements for All Positions:
Medical Requirements for All positions:
Applicants must be physically able to perform the duties of the Aviation Safety Inspector position in a safe and efficient manner,
with or without a reasonable accommodation
. The minimum medical requirements include the following requirements:
When the predominant work involves general aviation maintenance
, applicants for Aviation Safety Inspector (Airworthiness) positions must meet all of the following requirements:
Note:
Recency of specialized experience is waived for current and former FAA employees in the 1825 series.
Certificate and Ratings:
This position requires a certificate and ratings for minimum qualification in the following specialty:
General Aviation Maintenance; a copy of the certificate and ratings are required for ALL candidates newly appointed to the FAA in the 1825 specialty of General Aviation Maintenance.
Certificate and ratings must be submitted from current FAA employees applying for internal vacancies if they have never held this position with the FAA.
Certificate and ratings are not required from current FAA employees who are currently occupying (or previously held) General Aviation Maintenance 1825 series position.
Specialized
Experience:
To qualify for this position you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the (FV-H, FG/GS-12) level. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Specialized experience includes: experience assisting, conducting, or performing various technical functions related to certification, surveillance, investigation, and enforcement activities.
may be in investigating and reporting on accidents, incidents, and violations.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS MUST BE MET BY THE CLOSING DATE OF THIS VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT.
As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA.
In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA, in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet level or answer you chose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided.
Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for consideration.
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