Operations Technician

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION It is the mission of Rogers Executive Airport to safely provide convenient and efficient facilities and services that support a comprehensive range of aviation activity, enhance global access, and provide a vital conduit for commerce and economic development.
Rogers Executive Airport is one of 84 of 2,455 general aviation airports categorized as a National Airport, which is defined as: supporting the national and state system by providing communities with access to national and international markets in multiple states and throughout the United States.
Rogers Executive Airport accommodates all types of general aviation activity ranging from small propeller aircraft to the largest corporate jet types.
The Airport contributes an estimated $41.
5M in annual economic impact and has an estimated asset replacement value of over $121M.
The Airport operates with minimum staffing.
The Operations and Maintenance Technician is a mission critical position.
The position carries a wide range of responsibilities including inspecting and maintaining a broad range of facilities and equipment, operating a variety of types of heavy equipment for construction, maintenance, and snow removal operations, repairing and maintaining airfield pavements, signage and lighting, aircraft navigational aids, and electrical systems, executing maintenance plans for mowing, chemical herbicide application, maintaining fencing and electronic access control systems, identifying, managing, and controlling wildlife hazards to aircraft, maintaining and repairing air traffic control physical plant and its systems, responding to and assisting management with aircraft emergencies, as well as numerous other areas of responsibility covering the Airport's 425 acre campus.
The Operations and Maintenance Technician ensures the Airport is maintained in a safe and efficient manner in accordance with FAA standards.
Responsibilities include representing airport management frequently with customers, contractors, air traffic control personnel, and others.
The position is required to maintain heightened situational awareness at all times while working independently under general supervision and exercising independent judgement in performance of job responsibilities in a complex, dynamic, safety sensitive operating environment including work in close proximity to multi-million dollar jet aircraft.
The Operations and Maintenance Technician performs limited administrative functions, including making minor purchases and material orders and organizing and maintaining records related to maintenance activities.
The Airport operates 24/7 including all holidays.
Due to the small staff at the Rogers Executive Airport, extended overtime hours, weekends, holidays, and other non-standard work hours may be required.
Work is often performed under extreme climate conditions for extended periods of time.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 1.
Airport Condition Inspections- Airfield compliance with FAA standards and general safety and site security, including runway, taxiway, and apron pavements, lighting and signage, safety areas, wildlife hazards, security fencing and gate access control systems, stormwater conveyances, unusual conditions, etc.
This duty is performed daily.
2.
Maintenance and repair of airfield pavements, lighting, signage, aircraft navigational aids, and associated systems.
Involves working with high voltage distribution system for airfield runway/taxiway lighting and signage.
This duty is performed daily.
3.
Heavy and light equipment operation and maintenance- ranging from heavy mobile construction equipment to various mowers and small power tools.
This duty is performed daily.
4.
Routine and preventive maintenance and repair of buildings and grounds on 425 acre site, including maintenance of airfield operations area to FAA standards and maintenance and repair of the Air Traffic Control Tower.
This duty is performed daily.
5.
Conducting snow removal operations, operating variety of snow removal equipment.
Typically involves multiple days of extended hours including high frequency of overnight work typically conducted under extreme weather conditions.
Includes loading and unloading of 2,200lb deicing chemical containers with forklift/backhoe, operation of snow plows, snow broom, runway deice material spreader, dump trucks, etc.
Numerous outside manual functions such as clearing electric gates and other critical systems.
This duty is performed as needed.
6.
Emergency response for aircraft incidents and accidents, fuel spills, critical equipment and systems malfunctions/failures.
This duty is performed as needed.
7.
Coordination and oversight of numerous contractors, service providers, vendors, and suppliers.
This duty is performed weekly.
8.
Responding to special service requests and providing assistance to based customers and FAA maintenance personnel.
This duty is performed as needed.
9.
Inspecting, servicing, repairing, and programming electronic access control systems on multiple vehicle gates (all maintenance on controlled access systems performed in-house).
This duty is performed weekly.
10.
Applying herbicides for weed control, maintaining spray tanks, pumps and systems, using appropriate procedures for handling, mixing, and applying chemical herbicides.
This duty is performed as needed.
11.
Special projects- ranging from construction projects using heavy equipment, metal building maintenance and repair, building sheet metal work, storm water soil erosion repair and control, removing obstructions to aerial approaches (tree removal etc).
This duty is performed as needed.
12.
Airfield pavement maintenance projects, such as crack repair and sealing of asphalt pavement.
Typically performed at night when aircraft activity is reduced.
This duty is performed as needed.
13.
Communications with Air Traffic Control Tower using VHF radio equipment, monitoring and communicating with aircraft when ATCT is closed.
This duty is performed daily.
14.
General custodial services.
This duty is performed weekly.
15.
Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily.
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE High school or GED, plus specialized schooling and/or on the job education in a specific skill area; e.
g.
data processing, clerical/administrative, equipment operation, etc, plus 2 years related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS Ability to effectively communicate information and respond to questions in person-to-person and small group situations with customers, clients, general public and other employees of the organization.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of known variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram formats.
REQUIRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS Valid State of Arkansas DL PREFERRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS Mechanical experience(any applicable certificates/licenses) Equipment operations (any applicable certificates/licenses such as forklift safety training certificate) State of Arkansas Pesticide Applicator's License (herbicides) Airport Operations (any applicable) Airport Wildlife Hazard training (any applicable training certificates) SOFTWARE SKILLS REQUIRED Basic: Other, Spreadsheet, Word Processing/Typing INITIATIVE AND INGENUITY SUPERVISION RECEIVED Under general supervision where standard practice enables the employee to proceed alone on routine work, referring all questionable cases to supervisor.
PLANNING Considerable responsibility with regard to general assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work; may also occasionally assist in the planning of work assignments performed by others within a limited area of operation.
DECISION MAKING Performs work operations which permit frequent opportunity for decision-making of minor importance and which would not only affect the operating efficiency of the individual involved, but would also affect the work operations of other employees and/or clientele to a slight degree.
MENTAL DEMAND Very close mental demand.
Operations requiring very close and continuous attention for control of operations which require a high degree of coordination or immediate response.
Operations requiring intermittent direct thinking to determine or select the most applicable way of handling situations regarding the organization's administration and operations; also to determine or select material and equipment where highly variable sequences are involved.
ANALYTICAL ABILITY / PROBLEM SOLVING Moderately structured.
Fairly broad activities using moderately structured procedures with only generally guided supervision.
Interpolation of learned things in somewhat varied situations.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR WORK OF OTHERS Responsibility for work of others: Not indicated.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR FUNDS, PROPERTY and EQUIPMENT Regularly responsible for funds, building premises, inventory, or other property owned, controlled, or leased by the organization and, in addition, may have temporary custody and responsibility of patron property, which through carelessness, error, loss, theft, misappropriation, or similar action would result in very important monetary losses to the organization.
The total value for the above would range from $1,000,000 to $10,000,000.
ACCURACY Probable errors of internal and external scope would have a moderate effect on the operational efficiency of the organizational component concerned.
Errors might possibly go undetected for a considerable period of time, thereby creating an inaccurate picture of an existing situation.
Could cause further errors, losses, or embarrassment to the organization.
The possibility for error is always present due to requirements of the job.
ACCOUNTABILITY FREEDOM TO ACT Generally controlled.
General processes covered by established policies and standards with supervisory oversight.
ANNUAL MONETARY IMPACT The amount of annual dollars generated based on the job's essential duties / responsibilities.
Examples would include direct dollar generation, departmental budget, proper handling of organization funds, expense control, savings from new techniques or reduction in manpower.
Very small.
Job creates a monetary impact for the organization up to an annual level of $100,000.
IMPACT ON END RESULTS Modest impact.
Job has some impact on the organizations end results, but still from an indirect level.
Provides assistance and support services that facilitates decision making by others.
PUBLIC CONTACT Frequent contacts with general public, patrons, or other outside representatives, wherein the manner of handling these contacts has a bearing on the organization's position and operation.
EMPLOYEE CONTACT Contacts of considerable importance within the department or office, such as those required in coordination of effort, or frequent contacts with other departments or offices, generally in normal course of performing duties.
Requires tact in discussing problems and presenting data and making recommendations, but responsibility for action and decision reverts to others.
USE OF MACHINES, EQUIPMENT AND/OR COMPUTERS Regular use of complex machines and equipment (desktop/laptop computer and software, road and production machines and equipment, driver's license/cdl, etc.
) WORKING CONDITIONS Outside or inside working environment, wherein there are potential hazardous working conditions and life-threatening situations exist (fire, chemicals, electrical sources, heights, dangerous people, etc.
) part of the time.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS The following work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously exposed to outdoor weather conditions; regularly exposed to work in high, precarious places; frequently exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock; and occasionally exposed to vibration.
The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES The following physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations.
Moderate diversity, moderately physical.
Work activities which allow for a moderate amount of diversity in the performance of tasks which requires somewhat diversified physical demands of the employee.
While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously required to stand; regularly required to climb or balance; frequently required to walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear; and occasionally required to taste or smell.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds; frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; distance vision; color vision; peripheral vision; depth perception; and ability to adjust focus.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Not indicated.
Job Details Category All Employment Job Postings Status Open Salary Starting at $19.
02 - $21.
39, DOE Posted September 8, 2023 10:04 AM Closing Open Until Filled