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Compensation:

$91,763.27 - $146,821.25

Job Description:

This position assists management with the Airport's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) compliance programs, including the 14 CFR Part 139 Airport Certification Program and the 49 CFR Part 1542 Security Program, and oversees Ramp Control operations.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Manages Ramp Control operations by communicating with inbound and outbound aircraft pilots to ensure safe aircraft movement and parking, including taxi movements, pushback clearance, ground control communications, and pilot-tower coordination during ramp congestion and irregular operations.

• Conducts daily airfield inspections of runways, taxiways, ramps, and other aeronautical areas in accordance with 14 CFR Part 139 and 49 CFR Part 1542 operational standards and reviews associated logs.

• Makes immediate and vital decisions affecting the continuation of air and ground operations during emergency conditions in accordance with Part 139, CFR 1542, and/or other applicable advisory circulars and security directives.

• Assists with oversight of contractors, agencies, and tenants to ensure compliance with the Airport Certification Manual, Airport Security Program, and other applicable FAA/TSA standards.

• Maintains and updates all essential airport documents, including but not limited to the Airport Certification Manual, Airport Emergency Plan, Airport Security Program, AVSEC Aviation Security, Wildlife Hazard Management Plan, Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan, and associated records.

• Issues Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) as necessary to report non-standard airport conditions.

• Performs TSA 49 CFR Aviation Worker Screening.

• Conducts airport operational procedures, including escorting and Prior Permission Required (PPR) coordination.

• Assists with all aspects of required airport staff and tenant training programs.

• Performs administrative duties including answering phone calls, greeting and assisting visitors and tenants, copying, scanning, filing, emailing, mailing, and package delivery.

• Must be able to work weekends, nights, holidays, and open shifts.

• Responsible for personally knowing and following the County's Personnel Policies and Procedures, Administrative Instructions, Department Operating Procedures, and applicable Statutes and Regulations. Responsible for ensuring others also adhere to these standards.

• Performs other related job duties as assigned.

• In the event of special, emergency, or disaster situations, employee may be required to work schedules other than those for which they are regularly scheduled in any capacity deemed appropriate.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree in Aviation Management or a related field preferred. Eight (8) years minimum prior related work experience in a FAR Part 139 Commercial Service Airport, including previous management experience of five (5) or more employees, is required. An equivalent combination of experience and education may substitute for preferred degree requirements.

Special Qualifications:

FAA Private Pilot's license preferred. Must maintain a valid Florida Driver's License. Must be able to pass a ten-year fingerprint-based criminal background check and Security Threat Assessment (STA) for a secure area/SIDA airport badge.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to oversee the work of a team engaged in providing specific services, completing specific projects, or assisting other units.

• Ability to perform work that encompasses advanced technical, scientific, legal, or mathematical concepts; work directly contributes to the implementation of specific policies, programs, or initiatives of the organization.

• Ability to oversee numerous functions and staff; principally responsible for determining policies and procedures that will ensure the success of operations.

• Ability to work regularly with other managers to successfully meet the goals and objectives of the organization.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work is light and requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.

• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.

• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.

• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.

• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.

• Manual Dexterity: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.

• Mental Acuity: Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.

• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward, or outward.

• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.

• Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.

• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.

• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.

• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

• Visual Acuity: Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.

• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Work is performed in a dynamic environment that requires sensitivity and responsiveness to changes that include goals, priorities, and needs of the organization and position.

Monroe County has the right to revise this job description at any time. This description does not represent in any way a contract of employment.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Monroe County does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, or military service in employment or the provision of services.

Empleador de Igualdad de Oportunidades: El Condado de Monroe no discrimina por motivos de raza, color, origen nacional, género, religión, edad, discapacidad o servicio militar en el empleo o la prestación de servicios.

Veterans Preference according to Florida State Statute 295.07: Certain service members and veterans, and the spouses and family members of the servicemembers and veterans, receive preference and priority in employment by the state and are encouraged to apply for the positions being filled.

Preferencia de Veteranos de acuerdo con el Estatuto del Estado de Florida 295.07: Ciertos miembros del servicio y veteranos, y los cónyuges y familiares de los miembros del servicio y veteranos, reciben preferencia y prioridad en el empleo por parte del estado y se les alienta a solicitar los puestos que se están llenando.