The Flight Standards Service mission is to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world by setting standards, providing certification, and conducting oversight of airmen, air operators, air agencies, and designees.
Duties
The Director, Office of Air Carrier Safety Assurance, provides specialized technical assistance and advice on the organizations overarching priorities, specific goals, and strategic plans. The Director collaborates with colleagues, other Services/Lines of Business, and other agencies to identify methods to measure progress toward identified goals and priorities to promote safe air transportation by leading their organization in setting standards, providing certification, and conducting oversight of airmen, air operators, air agencies, and designees. The incumbent supervises two deputy directors who provide executive-level oversight on assigned program areas. The Director provides executive direction and oversight for five divisions comprised of approximately 1,380 employees and administers an annual budget of approximately $238M.
Principal Responsibilities:
- Oversees strategy development, including the vision and mission development for the organization; sets clear strategic direction and assures alignment across all organizational functions and programs; fosters commitment to the values, principles, and objectives of the organization; articulates clear organizational vision; and assures leadership strategy aligns with business strategy.
- Provides executive direction over all certification and oversight activities for aviation entities conducting operations under, or integrally related to, 14 CFR Part 121. Ensures consistency and standardization in the application of oversight activities, applies Risk-Based Decision Making for enhanced and focused utilization of certification and surveillance resources, and works across Flight Standards to ensure stakeholder and public needs are proactively and expeditiously met.
- Oversees the organizations involvement with investigations of accidents, incidents, and possible violations of 14 CFR and ensures compliance of operators’ flight procedures, operating methods, airmen qualifications and proficiency, and aircraft maintenance conducted under, or integrally related to, part 121.
- Creates and maintains a professional network by collaborating with FAA lines of business, other Department of Transportation modals and Federal agencies, Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies, State and local governments, international aviation authorities, and aviation industry representatives to address issues impacting aviation safety.
