Description
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.
- • Implement airfield safety procedures to ensure a safe operating environment for personnel and aircraft operation.
- • Plan and coordinate airfield construction.
- • Coordinate with agencies, such as air traffic control, civil engineers, or command posts, to ensure support of airfield management activities.
- • Monitor the arrival, parking, refueling, loading, and departure of all aircraft.
- • Maintain air-to-ground and point-to-point radio contact with aircraft commanders.
- • Train operations staff.
- • Relay departure, arrival, delay, aircraft and airfield status, and other pertinent information to upline controlling agencies.
- • Procure, produce, and provide information on the safe operation of aircraft, such as flight planning publications, operations publications, charts and maps, or weather information.
- • Coordinate communications between air traffic control and maintenance personnel.
- • Perform and supervise airfield management activities, including mobile airfield management functions.
- • Receive, transmit, and control message traffic.
- • Receive and post weather information and flight plan data, such as air routes or arrival and departure times.
- • Maintain flight and event logs, air crew flying records, and flight operations records of incoming and outgoing flights.
- • Coordinate with agencies to meet aircrew requirements for billeting, messing, refueling, ground transportation, and transient aircraft maintenance.
- • Collaborate with others to plan flight schedules and air crew assignments.
- • Coordinate changes to flight itineraries with appropriate Air Traffic Control (ATC) agencies.
- • Anticipate aircraft equipment needs for air evacuation and cargo flights.
- • Provide aircrews with information and services needed for airfield management and flight planning.
- • Conduct departure and arrival briefings.
- • Use airfield landing and navigational aids and digital data terminal communications equipment to perform duties.
- • Post visual display boards and status boards.
- • Check military flight plans with civilian agencies.
- • Assist in responding to aircraft and medical emergencies.
- • Manage wildlife on and around airport grounds.
- • Inspect airfield conditions to ensure compliance with federal regulatory requirements.
- • Conduct inspections of the airport property and perimeter to maintain controlled access to airfields.
- • Initiate or conduct airport-wide coordination of snow removal on runways and taxiways.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
