Description
Support air traffic control operations by managing flight data, monitoring systems, coordinating information flow, and facilitating communications to help expedite traffic and ensure safety in accordance with FAA and facility procedures. Collaborate with controllers, traffic management, and airport operations to distribute weather, NOTAMs, equipment status, and assist with emergency coordination.
- • Prepare and update ATIS broadcasts with current weather, runway use, NOTAMs, and field conditions.
- • Monitor radar, surface movement, and data displays; alert controllers to anomalies, delays, or hazards.
- • Input, verify, and amend flight plans; coordinate changes with pilots, airlines, and adjacent facilities.
- • Compile and distribute flight progress strips or electronic flight data to appropriate positions.
- • Maintain continuous phone and interphone coordination with towers, TRACONs, ARTCCs, and airport operations.
- • Relay approved advisories and routine information to pilots as directed by controllers.
- • Initiate emergency notifications and checklists; alert ARFF, medical, and airport operations as directed.
- • Track weather, wind shear, and visibility reports; post updates and brief controllers on significant changes.
- • Manage NOTAM creation, receipt, and dissemination; update status boards and systems.
- • Coordinate runway and taxiway closures, inspections, and work areas with airport operations and post advisories.
- • Transmit and receive departure and arrival estimates, flow times, and route amendments with adjacent facilities.
- • Support traffic management initiatives by compiling demand/capacity data and preparing reroute or delay advisories.
- • Initiate information requests and coordination for overdue or missing aircraft per facility SOPs.
- • Query traffic and weather systems to support altitude, route, or speed requests; provide data to controllers.
- • Maintain and audit position logs, facility logs, traffic counts, and required regulatory records.
- • Complete daily activity, equipment status, and outage reports; archive coordination messages and recordings.
- • Conduct pre- and post-shift equipment checks for radios, recorders, displays, and lighting panels; open trouble tickets for discrepancies.
- • Assist with FICON/RCAM and runway condition reporting workflows as provided by airport operations.
- • Prepare draft clearances, reroutes, and strip markups for controller review and issuance.
- • Support pre-shift and mid-shift briefings by organizing weather charts, NOTAMs, and operational restrictions.
- • Assist with training by developing job aids, updating SOPs, and mentoring new support specialists.
- • Maintain compliance with FAA and facility procedures, security protocols, and communication standards.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
