Air Traffic Control Specialist

OAS is a rapidly expanding management consulting company with a focus on the aviation industry. OAS is an aviation-focused team, building client partnerships to integrate smart, strategic, technical, and organizational solutions. Our clients include civilian and military aviation organizations.

We are headquartered in Vienna, Virginia. OAS is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business.

Job Summary

Objective Area Solutions (OAS) is seeking a senior Air Traffic Control Specialist to support the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Air Traffic Organization, Program Management Organization. This Level V role serves as a senior operational subject matter expert, helping coordinate air traffic requirements and operational activities across FAA program offices and lines of business.

The successful candidate will bring full-performance-level controller judgment to acquisition and engineering programs by translating operational needs into system requirements, evaluating proposed automation and surveillance capabilities, and representing the operational community in technical interchange meetings, workgroups, and program reviews. Experience supporting FAA acquisition or program management organizations is required.

Key Responsibilities

Air Traffic Requirements and Operational Coordination

• Coordinate activities with air traffic requirements and operations personnel across FAA program offices and lines of business.
• Support technical interchange meetings, program reviews, and coordination with the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA).
• Coordinate workgroup activities for En Route, Oceanic, Terminal, and other assigned program offices.
• Help transform operational needs into system-level functional and performance requirements.

Systems, Requirements, and Safety Analysis

• Perform system and system/subsystem specification analyses to confirm that operational concerns and technical requirements are addressed.
• Review requirements, design documentation, concepts of operation, interface requirements documents, and interface control documents, and provide operational feedback.
• Perform airspace analysis and design or redesign in support of National Airspace System infrastructure projects, including surveillance installations, upgrades, and decommissioning.
• Support operational concept development, validation, human-in-the-loop simulation planning, and evaluation of automation, surveillance, navigation, and separation capabilities.
• Provide operational input to FAA Safety Management System and Safety Risk Management activities, including panel support.

Program Support, Briefings, and Deliverables

• Develop recommendations and solutions supporting short- and long-term program planning.
• Prepare and deliver briefings to FAA leadership, program offices, industry, labor organizations, and external stakeholders.
• Support air traffic systems training requirements and coordinate with FAA Technical Training and operations personnel.
• Classify and summarize data for recurring reports and prepare agendas, meeting minutes, white papers, status reports, and decision-support products.

Required Qualifications

• Air traffic control technical and operational experience as a domestic or oceanic controller in an En Route and Oceanic or Terminal operational environment.
• Twenty or more years of relevant experience consistent with the ATEPS II Air Traffic Controller/Specialist Level V labor category.
• An associate degree with at least 15 years of active, full-performance-level ATC experience, or 20 years of active, full-performance-level ATC experience in lieu of a degree.
• Equivalent ATC experience in a U.S. military or international control environment may be considered. A bachelor's degree may count toward five years of experience.
• Acquisition and program management experience supporting FAA program offices or similar organizations.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust determination and FAA PIV credential.
• Ability to travel up to 50%.

Demonstrated Experience

• Full-performance-level control in en route, oceanic or offshore non-radar, radar, and/or terminal environments, including TRACON or tower operations.
• Supporting FAA program offices with requirements development, system analysis, and specification review for NAS automation, surveillance, communications, or navigation capabilities.
• Airspace analysis and design or redesign, including testing, procedure development, coverage or service-volume analysis, and airspace configuration recommendations.
• Technical interchange meetings, workgroups, and program reviews involving FAA, labor, industry, or international stakeholders.
• Preparing and delivering technical briefings and written products for senior FAA leadership and external audiences.
• FAA air traffic rules, procedures, facility functions, acquisition processes, and Safety Management System practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Airspace and operational analysis supporting surveillance deployments, including radar siting, obstruction evaluation, coverage modeling, flight-check coordination, or transition planning.
• Experience with ADS-B, RVSM, reduced oceanic separation, uncrewed aircraft systems integration, or commercial space launch and recovery coordination.
• Participation in Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing or comparable safety-data analysis panels.
• Experience developing and delivering controller or FAA staff training, including national system implementations.

Location: Remote

Employment type: Full Time

Salary Range: $100,000-$150,000 yearly

Equal Employment Opportunity

At OAS, diversity fuels our innovation and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we serve. We endeavor to build a workplace that reflects the diverse communities around us and where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work. Therefore, we provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals, embracing differences in age, race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, religion, ethnicity, and all other backgrounds.