FLIGHT LINE OPERATIONS TECHNICIAN 2025 - 02922

The City of Fayetteville is a vibrant and progressive municipality committed to attracting, engaging, and rewarding a dynamic multi-generational workforce. With a strong focus on serving its community, the City offers a comprehensive total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and an array of benefits plans designed to support its employees both professionally and personally. As an employer of choice, Fayetteville is dedicated to fostering a purposeful work life that encourages the growth, development, and well-being of its staff. The City values diversity, inclusivity, and ongoing professional development, ensuring that every employee has the opportunity to thrive within a supportive and collaborative environment. The City of Fayetteville is currently seeking a dedicated individual to join their team in a safety and security-sensitive role focused on airport operations. This full-time position plays a critical role in maintaining the safety, security, and efficient functioning of the airport, which is vital to the community’s connectivity and economic vitality. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing excellent customer service to both internal and external customers, ensuring positive and effective working relationships across teams, and maintaining a reliable presence that supports seamless operations. Key responsibilities for this role include monitoring access to aircraft parking areas, moving aircraft in and out of hangars using hand and motor-driven tugs, parking, fueling, and securing aircraft, and managing baggage handling. The individual will also use airport and city radio networks to communicate effectively with aircraft, the Control Tower, and Line Control, balancing administrative tasks such as processing payments and preparing reports. Fuel management tasks are integral to the role, including refilling fuel service trucks, performing fuel quality tests, completing storage inspection reports, and maintaining fuel trucks and storage tanks. Additional duties involve maintaining the parking apron free of debris, reporting maintenance issues, performing grounds and facility maintenance including custodial duties, and routine maintenance on airport vehicles and equipment. The position requires participation in an on-call rotation to respond to service calls outside normal operating hours and often serves as a backup for the Customer Service Team to provide assistance and convenience services. This role demands a high level of attention to safety, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work independently while making sound decisions. The work environment is physically demanding and involves exposure to noise, mechanical parts, chemicals, and varying weather conditions, thus requiring adherence to all safety protocols. This full-time, non-uniformed role offers 40 or more hours per week and is eligible for all City benefits for full-time employees, including paid leave accruals. The City of Fayetteville prides itself on being an equal employment opportunity employer and supports a workplace culture where each employee’s contribution is valued. For more information on City employee benefits, prospective candidates can visit the official City benefits webpage. This opportunity is ideal for someone seeking a stable career in a municipal setting where service, safety, and community welfare are prioritized.

• High school diploma or GED
• 12 months of experience operating maintenance equipment or facility maintenance experience
• valid driver’s license
• must successfully pass criminal background check including convictions, guilty pleas, or no contest pleas to violent offenses, theft offenses and offenses under A.C.A. 21-15-103 or A.C.A. 21-15-111
• ability to use mathematics involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and/or calculating ratios, rates and percents
• ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships
• ability to speak clearly and be understood on radio systems and understand communications for safety
• ability to communicate effectively with customers and provide positive service
• ability to understand and follow complex oral and written instructions
• ability to work independently and make sound decisions
• ability to detect and correct or refer operating deficiencies
• regularly required to talk and hear for safety or equipment operation
• required to stand, walk, sit, and use hands
• ability to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl
• regularly required to lift/move up to 50 pounds, occasionally up to 100 pounds
• exposure to moving mechanical parts, fumes, chemicals, weather, risk of electrical shock and vibration
• perform work from elevated positions
• high noise exposure due to jet engine noise