Narrative:

Aircraft X went around short final due to wind shear two times. Both were from the weather and created a potentially dangerous situation with the departure traffic at the time. At the time; I was combined with lcw/gcw/gce/clearance delivery. There were several aircraft calling in on different frequencies and I was scanning both sides of the airport to verify compliance. On the east side; there is construction that is making every aircraft taxing a complex situation. When the aircraft went around the first time; I was talking to an east side aircraft so I was totally distracted. The facility had a runway incursion just last week over there so it is a point of focus and cannot be ignored. Even with busy traffic at the time.regional management has dictated how we are to divide the positions very specifically with the reduced staffing. The problem is that the controller in charge cannot adjust to the real time situations because we are being told specifically how to split positions from individuals outside the facility that don't understand our traffic. There has been zero input from the people actually working the positions on this. In this case; all the locals should have been combined and ground and clearance should have been combined. We should not have to be dealing with go-arounds on one side of the cab and complex taxiway/runway configurations on the other. Their knee-jerk reactions have created an unsafe environment because we can't work the traffic in a safe manner. Every controller and supervisor I have talked to has said this is not safe. We are all willing to have a conversation on how to improve workload in the tower. But there has been no conversation. Just dictates from a bureaucracy that doesn't understand our operation. Collaboration is not telling us your decision after it has already been made.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: SLC Tower Controller reported an aircraft went around twice due to windshear and also reported that the way the Tower cab positions are split up are not flexible and not safe.

Narrative: Aircraft X went around short final due to wind shear two times. Both were from the weather and created a potentially dangerous situation with the departure traffic at the time. At the time; I was combined with LCW/GCW/GCE/CD. There were several aircraft calling in on different frequencies and I was scanning both sides of the airport to verify compliance. On the east side; there is construction that is making every aircraft taxing a complex situation. When the aircraft went around the first time; I was talking to an east side aircraft so I was totally distracted. The facility had a runway incursion just last week over there so it is a point of focus and cannot be ignored. Even with busy traffic at the time.Regional management has dictated how we are to divide the positions very specifically with the reduced staffing. The problem is that the CIC cannot adjust to the real time situations because we are being told specifically how to split positions from individuals outside the facility that don't understand our traffic. There has been zero input from the people actually working the positions on this. In this case; all the locals should have been combined and ground and clearance should have been combined. We should not have to be dealing with go-arounds on one side of the cab and complex taxiway/runway configurations on the other. Their knee-jerk reactions have created an unsafe environment because we can't work the traffic in a safe manner. Every Controller and Supervisor I have talked to has said this is not safe. We are all willing to have a conversation on how to improve workload in the Tower. But there has been no conversation. Just dictates from a bureaucracy that doesn't understand our operation. Collaboration is not telling us your decision after it has already been made.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.