Aviation Safety Inspector; Airworthiness), Air Carrier Avionics

Position: Aviation Safety Inspector (Airworthiness), Air Carrier Avionics
Summary

The International Principal Aviation Safety Inspector (Air Carrier Avionics) functions as the primary interface between assigned foreign operators, agencies, organizations, airmen, designees, and the Federal Aviation Administration. Incumbent has program responsibility to assure that assigned entities meet federal aviation regulations at 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and related direction with respect to operations programs.

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Summary

The International Principal Aviation Safety Inspector (Air Carrier Avionics) functions as the primary interface between assigned foreign operators, agencies, organizations, airmen, designees, and the Federal Aviation Administration. Incumbent has program responsibility to assure that assigned entities meet federal aviation regulations at 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and related direction with respect to operations programs.

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Accepting applications

Posted this week
· Apply by 06/22/26

Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 22, 2026

Location

3 vacancies in the following locations:

Anchorage, AK

Alameda, CA

El Segundo, CA

Fresno, CA

Long Beach, CA

Riverside, CA

Sacramento, CA

San Diego, CA

San Jose, CA

Van Nuys, CA

Honolulu, HI

Las Vegas, NV

Seattle, WA

No matching locations found.

Work site options

Telework eligible Yes-Situational telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy. Relocation expenses reimbursed No Salary $107,446 - $139,684 per year

Salary shows base pay only. Locality pay will be added based on selectee's duty location.

Pay scale & grade

FG 14

Promotion potential NA

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Work schedule Full-time Travel Required 50% or less - The job may require up to 50% travel.

Appointment type Permanent

Occupations and job series

* 1825 Aviation Safety

Supervisory status No Federal service type This job is in the Excepted Service Represented by a union Yes - This position is represented by PASS:
Flight Standards Services.

Drug test Yes Security clearance Secret

Announcement number AWP-AFX-26-BAR Control number

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Current federal employees of the hiring agency that posted the job announcement.

Clarification from the agency

Open to current permanent AVS and AMA-200 employees.

Duties

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The International Principal Aviation Safety Inspector (ASI) receives administrative direction from management in terms of broadly defined missions or functions. The ASI independently plans, designs, and carries out programs, projects, studies, or other work. The ASI provides policy assistance to ASIs on difficult or complex policy interpretations. The work is normally accepted without change. Completed work may be reviewed for adherence to FAA policy and for assurance that project requirements have been fulfilled.

Applies expert knowledge of flight operations for an advanced multiengine turbojet aircraft. Such employees are concerned with all aspects of the operational capabilities and limitations of the aircraft. Assignments at this level are of great scope and unusual complexity and the organizations monitored are major factors in the industry.

As the principal representative in regulatory oversight of foreign air carrier activities, exercises authority over foreign air operators, maintenance organizations, maintenance airmen and designated entities with very extensive and complex operations. Analyzes maintenance operations involving large fleets of turbojet aircraft engaged in large-scale passenger and freight service, evaluates maintenance activities and complete aircraft overhaul facilities which are equipped and staffed to handle the latest and most sophisticated turbojet aircraft and associated systems, and approves maintenance programs for FAA registered aircraft operate by a foreign operator.

This level includes the responsibility for nationally and internationally prominent carriers who operator the largest, most advanced fleets of turbojet aircraft in the industry.

Exercises regulatory authority and safety responsibility over a complex of broad and varied air carrier and general aviation organizations such as operator maintenance facilities and contracted repair stations when the activities monitored equate collectively to a major air carrier in terms of size and complexity of aircraft fleet employed, scope and technical complexity of operations, management sophistication, industry leadership, and public impact.

The ASI is expected to follow established laws, orders, policies, and regulations that provide general guidance for completing work objectives, but is allowed considerable discretion to develop new or innovative approaches. The ASI uses resourcefulness, initiative, and judgement based on experience to develop and implement evaluation procedures to address problems where precedents are not applicable. Methods, practices, or decisions may be used as guidance in similar problem areas.

The ASI keeps management…