Airfield Operations Specialists
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.
What an airfield operations specialist does
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If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good airfield operations specialist
- Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
- Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.
- Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Average hourly rate is $40 per hour with an average salary of $82,900 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $31 and $52 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $63,800 and $108,400 per year.
Airfield Operations Specialist job outlook
- There are 117 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 21 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.