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Air Traffic Control Specialist

Federal Aviation Administration
Federal Aviation Administration Salary
Chicago, IL Other
POSTED ON 4/22/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/13/2026

Serves as a Traffic Management Coordinator (TMC) in an ATC-12 level terminal facility and is responsible for ensuring that efficient and effective traffic management is maintained.

Qualifications:

Applicants must demonstrate they possess required specialized experience. Specialized experience for this position is defined as:

Must have been facility rated or area certified as a CPC/TMC/S at an ATO terminal/en route facility.

Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.

Responsibilities:

Ensures that traffic management instructions/restrictions are initiated in accordance with established procedures to maintain a safe and expeditious flow of traffic and minimize the impact of heavy flight demands. Assesses the facility's capacity and projects an acceptable level of traffic.

Issues appropriate traffic flow restrictions to adjacent facilities, to space, hold, and reroute aircraft to distribute the flow of traffic and equalize workload among positions. Follows agency policy when implementing traffic management initiatives.

Maintains awareness of the traffic flow, equipment status, airport/weather conditions, and traffic forecasts to ensure acceptable levels of traffic, mitigate delays, and avoid flights into undesirable atmospheric conditions. Maintains familiarization of all phases of facility operations and aeronautical/meteorological conditions.

Maintains currency on required positions of operation.

Works under the administrative supervision of the Supervisory Traffic Management Coordinator. Performance is evaluated upon the effectiveness with which assigned program objectives are achieved.

Salary : $172,099

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