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Airfield Operations Specialists

$49.6K Median Salary 1.2K Job Openings (Annual Projection) 12.5% Job Growth

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About This Career

Ensure the safe takeoff and landing of commercial and military aircraft. Duties include coordination between air-traffic control and maintenance personnel, dispatching, using airfield landing and navigational aids, implementing airfield safety procedures, monitoring and maintaining flight records, and applying knowledge of weather information.

Reported Job Titles

Airfield Operations Specialist, Airport Operations Agent, Airport Operations Coordinator, Airport Operations Officer, Airport Operations Specialist, Flight Follower, Operations Agent, Operations Coordinator, Operations Officer, Operations Specialist

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Skills You'll Need

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Abilities

Deductive Reasoning

Problem Sensitivity

Oral Comprehension

Oral Expression

Written Comprehension

Inductive Reasoning

Speech Clarity

Far Vision

Information Ordering

Near Vision

Written Expression

Flexibility of Closure

Perceptual Speed

Selective Attention

Speech Recognition

Category Flexibility

Auditory Attention

Time Sharing

Visualization

Knowledge

Public Safety and Security

Transportation

English Language

Customer and Personal Service

Education and Training

Telecommunications

Administration and Management

Administrative

Law and Government

Computers and Electronics

Communications and Media

Mathematics

Skills

Active Listening

Monitoring

Coordination

Critical Thinking

Reading Comprehension

Speaking

Complex Problem Solving

Writing

Active Learning

Instructing

Judgment and Decision Making

Social Perceptiveness

Systems Analysis

Systems Evaluation

Time Management

Learning Strategies

Operations Monitoring

Service Orientation

Technology Skills

Data base user interface and query software

Presentation software

Operating system software

Spreadsheet software

Electronic mail software

Accounting software

Application server software

Expert system software

Graphics or photo imaging software

Enterprise resource planning ERP software

Enterprise application integration software

Office suite software

Cloud-based data access and sharing software

Word processing software

Internet protocol IP multimedia subsystem software

Calendar and scheduling software

Tools

Rescue truck

Multi function printers

Two way radios

Joint cleaning or refacing machines

Fire extinguishers

Animal control traps

Snow blowers

Safety glasses

Liquid crystal display LCD panels or monitors

Area lighting

Forklifts

Sporting traps

Articulating boom lift

Flares

Sporting shotguns

Alarm systems

Lawnmowers

All terrain vehicles tracked or wheeled

Light trucks or sport utility vehicles

Power sanders

Security or access control systems

Road sweeper

Dump trucks

Desktop computers

Abilities

Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.

Knowledge

Public Safety and Security: Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
Transportation: Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Education and Training: Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
Telecommunications: Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
Administration and Management: Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
Administrative: Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
Communications and Media: Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

Skills

Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
Operations Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.

Technology Skills

Data base user interface and query software: Blackboard software; Database software; Microsoft Access; Yardi software
Presentation software: Microsoft PowerPoint
Operating system software: Microsoft Windows
Spreadsheet software: Microsoft Excel
Electronic mail software: IBM Notes; Microsoft Exchange; Microsoft Outlook
Accounting software: Billing software; Bookkeeping software; Intuit QuickBooks; Sage 50 Accounting
Application server software: Oracle WebLogic Server
Expert system software: MASterMind
Graphics or photo imaging software: SmugMug Flickr
Enterprise resource planning ERP software: Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne; Oracle PeopleSoft; Oracle PeopleSoft Financials; SAP software
Enterprise application integration software: Electronic Data Interchange EDI systems
Office suite software: Microsoft Office software
Cloud-based data access and sharing software: Dropbox; Google Drive; Microsoft SharePoint
Word processing software: 3M Post-it App; Evernote; Google Docs; Microsoft Word
Internet protocol IP multimedia subsystem software: Voice over internet protocol VoIP system software
Calendar and scheduling software: Appointment scheduling software

Tools

Rescue truck: Fire trucks
Multi function printers: Check validation printers; Journal printers; Passbook printers
Two way radios:
Joint cleaning or refacing machines: Crack sealing equipment
Fire extinguishers:
Animal control traps: Animal traps
Snow blowers:
Safety glasses: Protective safety glasses
Liquid crystal display LCD panels or monitors: Computer monitors
Area lighting: Airfield lighting equipment
Forklifts:
Sporting traps: Culvert traps; Foot snares; Mist nets
Articulating boom lift: Cherry pickers
Flares: Pyrotechnic distress signals
Sporting shotguns: Hunting shotguns
Alarm systems: Engine room alarm systems; Ship alarm systems
Lawnmowers: Push mowers
All terrain vehicles tracked or wheeled: All terrain vehicles ATV
Light trucks or sport utility vehicles: Utility trucks
Power sanders: Power hand sanders
Security or access control systems: Access control systems; Electronic article surveillance EAS sensing devices
Road sweeper: Sweeper vehicles
Dump trucks: Rock trucks
Desktop computers: