Description
Ensure safe, efficient airfield operations and aircraft movements by coordinating with ATC, maintenance, and flight crews; dispatching; operating landing and navigational aids; enforcing safety procedures; maintaining flight records; and applying weather and NOTAM information.
- • Implement airfield safety procedures to maintain a safe operating environment.
- • Support planning and coordination of airfield construction and maintenance.
- • Coordinate with ATC, civil engineers, emergency services, and command posts to support airfield operations.
- • Monitor aircraft arrival, parking, servicing, loading, and departure.
- • Maintain air-to-ground and point-to-point radio communications with aircrews.
- • Assist in training operations personnel.
- • Relay departures, arrivals, delays, and airfield status to controlling agencies.
- • Provide flight planning resources, publications, charts, NOTAMs, and weather information.
- • Coordinate communications between air traffic control and maintenance personnel.
- • Perform airfield management activities, including mobile operations support.
- • Receive, transmit, and control message traffic.
- • Process and post weather, NOTAMs, and flight plan data.
- • Maintain flight and event logs, aircrew records, and flight operations records.
- • Coordinate aircrew billeting, messing, refueling, ground transportation, and transient maintenance.
- • Assist in planning flight schedules and crew assignments.
- • Coordinate flight itinerary changes with ATC.
- • Anticipate equipment and support needs for air evacuation and cargo missions.
- • Provide aircrews with required information and services for flight planning and airfield operations.
- • Conduct departure and arrival briefings.
- • Operate airfield lighting, landing, and navigational aids and digital communications systems.
- • Post and update visual display and status boards.
- • Verify military flight plans with civilian agencies.
- • Assist in responding to aircraft, security, and medical emergencies.
- • Monitor and mitigate wildlife hazards on and around the airfield.
- • Inspect runways, taxiways, and movement areas for regulatory compliance and FOD.
- • Inspect airport property and perimeter to maintain controlled access to the airfield.
- • Assist with airport-wide coordination of snow and ice control on runways and taxiways.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
