Airfield Operations Specialists
Tasks
Core Tasks Include:
- Implement airfield safety procedures to ensure a safe operating environment for personnel and aircraft operation.
- Plan and coordinate airfield construction.
- Coordinate with agencies, such as air traffic control, civil engineers, or command posts, to ensure support of airfield management activities.
- Monitor the arrival, parking, refueling, loading, and departure of all aircraft.
- Train operations staff.
- Relay departure, arrival, delay, aircraft and airfield status, and other pertinent information to upline controlling agencies.
- Coordinate communications between air traffic control and maintenance personnel.
- Perform and supervise airfield management activities, including mobile airfield management functions.
- Provide aircrews with information and services needed for airfield management and flight planning.
- Assist in responding to aircraft and medical emergencies.
- Manage wildlife on and around airport grounds.
- Inspect airfield conditions to ensure compliance with federal regulatory requirements.
- Conduct inspections of the airport property and perimeter to maintain controlled access to airfields.
- Initiate or conduct airport-wide coordination of snow removal on runways and taxiways.
Supplemental Tasks Include:
- Maintain air-to-ground and point-to-point radio contact with aircraft commanders.
- Procure, produce, and provide information on the safe operation of aircraft, such as flight planning publications, operations publications, charts and maps, or weather information.
- Receive, transmit, and control message traffic.
- Receive and post weather information and flight plan data, such as air routes or arrival and departure times.
- Maintain flight and event logs, air crew flying records, and flight operations records of incoming and outgoing flights.
- Coordinate with agencies to meet aircrew requirements for billeting, messing, refueling, ground transportation, and transient aircraft maintenance.
- Collaborate with others to plan flight schedules and air crew assignments.
- Coordinate changes to flight itineraries with appropriate Air Traffic Control (ATC) agencies.
- Anticipate aircraft equipment needs for air evacuation and cargo flights.
- Conduct departure and arrival briefings.
- Use airfield landing and navigational aids and digital data terminal communications equipment to perform duties.
- Post visual display boards and status boards.
- Check military flight plans with civilian agencies.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
