Opening date: 14 March 2018
Closing date: 24 March 2018
Position title: Facilities Engineer

Job Requirements:
•   Supports creation and maintenance of ZDC community and standards thereof
•   Maintains and updates sector files for all approved ATC client software, updating at least every AIRAC cycle.
•   Maintains vATIS configuration files.
•   Assists the Training Administrator in maintaining all required training files
•   Maintains POF and alias files.
•   Coordinates with adjacent ARTCCs as required, including assists in developing Letters of Agreement on behalf of the Air Traffic Manager
•   Ensures established LOAs are fully represented within sector files and other procedures.
•   Performs other facility related work as directed by the Senior Staff at ZDC
•   Supports and participates in initiatives that give back to the VATSIM community.
•   Supports the recruitment, retention and development of a diverse range of talented people.
•   Holds self and others accountable to high performance standards while providing pilots with memorable experiences.
•   Ability to listen to feedback and take constructive action.
•   Maintains an online presence on the VATSIM server and ZDC TS.
•   Attends periodic meetings to report on ARTCC activities.

Application Requirements:
•   Minimum S3 rating required
•   Must abide by the minimum required hours as dictated in the ZDC SOP; 1 controlling hour a month and bi-monthly or as otherwise needed sector file updates
•   Applicants must have a thorough working knowledge of VRC and vATIS, at least a working knowledge of Euroscope and be familiar with vSTARS and vERAM.
•   Must be an active member of the network in good standing.
•   Must have excellent written and oral communication skills.
•   Must be able to work in a team environment.
•   Must be available for regular correspondence (via the primary means of e-mail), as well as routinely checking VATUSA forums and other outlets for official notices.

Preferred Skills
•   Provides evidence of commitment and self-motivation.
•   Previous experience either as a FE or in assisting an existing FE.
•   Ability to create Tower Trainer airport and scenario files for training purposes.
•   Ability to create Euroscope scenario files


Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
In a narrative manner please show how you meet the following KSAs:
1) Sector file development
2) Writing documents of a technical manner
3) Creating training scenarios/problems

Candidates whom are not on the ZDC home roster, if accepted must transfer to ZDC to accept the position.

Applications materials must include:
Full Name, active e-mail, and VATSIM CID.
Response to KSAs

E-mail submission of application materials shall be addressed to Rick Rump and Steve Fedor at [email protected] and [email protected] (respectively) by the posted closing date (23:59 EDT). Those candidates deemed qualified will be contacted for an interview.

ZDC is pleased to welcome back Raymond Salvagnini as our Training Administrator. Ray previously served as DATM for a year before leaving us to begin his career in aviation.
Ray holds his Commercial ASEL & AMEL; Instrument Rating; CFI & CFII; and his MEI from UND from the UND Aerospace Flight Training Center in AZ. He has been a member of ZDC for numerous years and along with his experience as a pilot brings real-world instructional skills and joins us in our yearning for a sense of community in the facility.

Join the controllers of the Virtual Washington ARTCC as we host VATUSA's Friday Night Operations on a very rare occurrence. We'll be hosting an aviation ball as the wheel of democracy turns and the inauguration of the 45th president of the United States takes place in coincidence with a Friday. With his induction into office, the president will be trading one notable aircraft in the aviation community, N757AF, out for another: Air Force One. The inauguration will bring a boost in passengers to the Washington D.C. metropolitan area and so vZDC will be featuring KDCA Washington National Airport however flights into Joint Base Andrews (KADW, military and foreign dignitaries), Washington-Dulles (KIAD), or KBWI (Baltimore-Washington International) are welcome in order to fit your flight schedule and host international flights. We hope you'll join us for this rare chance to fly into KDCA in the full rush of FNO or experience the business of the restrictive and claustrophobic Potomac TRACON airspace at one of our other airports.

Pilots into KDCA should plan extra fuel and possible diversions to KIAD or KBWI.

The celebration starts at 23:59Z and ends at 04:00Z.

ZDC is seeking a highly motivated person for the position of Webmaster.

Duties:
-Implements a new back-end and front-end structure for the ZDC Website;
-Manages ZDC Teamspeak, Web Services, E-mail and Voice Server;
-Selection of assistants or helpers as needed;
-Other duties as assigned or requested by the ATM, DATM or TA;
-Reports to the ZDC DATM.

Requirements:
-An active member of ZDC or willing to transfer to ZDC if selected;
-Capable of working in a team environment;
-Proficiency in production environment and testing in: PHP, CSS, MySQL (and related interfaces in PHP), *NIX (preferably Ubuntu), AJAX, JSON and HTML5.

Application:
-Send an e-mail to atm and datm at vzdc dot org indicating skills and plans for a new site (Front and back ends). Reference Announcement Number ZDC 16-002.

Closing date: 19 October 2016.