About this role
Job SummaryTHIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION. This National Guard position is for a FLIGHT OPERATIONS SPECIALIST, Position Description Number D0671000 and is part of the KS AASF 2, National Guard.
QualificationsMilitary Grades: E-3 through E-7 Military Compatibility: 15P GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Experience, education, or training interpreting, explaining, and/or applying basic rules, regulations, policies, and procedures of Flight Operations. Experience using computer and automation systems. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must have 1-year specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade. Experience, education, or training providing flight following services for local and maintenance test flights. Experience, education, or training maintaining arrival and dispatch records for inbound and outbound aircraft. Experience, education, or training in preparing, maintaining or filing reports allied to flight operations and flight training activities.
Major DutiesAs a FLIGHT OPERATIONS SPECIALIST, GS-2102-08, you will brief and provide pilots with information on mission restrictions; hazards and terrain; weather forecasts; notices to airmen (NOTAMS) and deviations to flight plans when required as well as provide in-flight advisory services. You will be responsible for direct voice communication with aviators in flight to transmit and receive information such as flight plan changes, weather advisories, NOTAMs, other aeronautical information and data affecting safety of flight. You will be responsible for initiating search and rescue for overdue aircraft and implementing the crash rescue plan in the event of an aircraft accident. You will prepare, maintain and file records, charts, graphs, and reports allied to flight operations and flight training activities such as aircraft utilization reports, aircrew information reports, individual flight records notice to airmen (NOTAM) file and airfield data. You will maintain and account for aircrew training records, medical recommendations, aeronautical orders, and aviation service data. You will maintain arrival and dispatch records for inbound and outbound aircraft and perform other duties as assigned