Flight Simulator Instructor - A320/B777
CAE
Job Summary
This role involves maintaining personal licenses and authority approvals for flight simulator instruction. Responsibilities include ensuring compliance with policies and regulations, conducting thorough simulator briefings and debriefings, and providing instruction on various aircraft types. Instructors will deliver both simulator and classroom training, support curriculum development, and may acquire examiner qualifications. The position requires meticulous record-keeping and recommending candidates for licensing checks.
Must Have
- Maintain personal licenses, ratings, and IP “currency,” including medical fitness.
- Ensure Authority approval is valid prior to conducting any training.
- Adhere to ECFT/CAE policies and procedures at the operational level.
- Comply with regulations and procedures related to Authority-approved programs.
- Conduct all simulator briefings and training sessions in a thorough and positive manner.
- Accurately document any deviations and discuss during debriefing.
- Review the client’s Training and Checking Authorization form.
- Provide simulator instruction on one or more aircraft types (four or more hours per session).
- Conduct pre- and post-flight simulator briefings in a thorough and professional manner.
- Deliver classroom instruction via Simfinity, CBT, IPT, or stand-up lectures.
- Complete miscellaneous tasks such as maintaining training records and tracking personal instructional qualifications.
- Prepare and inspect classroom facilities and equipment prior to each training day.
- Recommend candidates for licensing checks based on training performance and readiness.
Good to Have
- Support the development and certification of training curriculum and devices, including simulators, FTDs, and FMS training aids (if assigned).
- Obtain FAA/EASA ground school and simulator instructor designation within approximately 12 months (if assigned to ground school).
- Acquire the necessary qualifications to serve as an examiner and perform examiner duties.
- Act as a subject matter expert in the creation and review of curriculum and courseware (if assigned).
- Deliver MCC training for stand-alone courses and multi-pilot operations on SPHPCA types, as per instructor certification (if applicable).
Perks & Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits supporting professional and personal growth.
Job Description
About This Role
Maintaining Licenses and Ensuring Authority Approval
- Maintain personal licenses, ratings, and IP “currency,” including medical fitness (if applicable), to perform assigned duties.
- Ensure that any approval granted by an Authority is valid prior to conducting any training that requires exercising the privileges of that approval.
Compliance
- Adhere to ECFT/CAE policies and procedures at the operational level when conducting any training function, activity, or lesson plan.
- Comply with regulations and procedures related to Authority-approved programs as they apply to training functions, activities, or lesson plans.
Briefing and De-Briefing
- Conduct all simulator briefings and training sessions in a thorough and positive manner to maximize training benefits for the trainee pilot.
- Accurately document any deviations from required SOPs, procedures, or maneuvers, and discuss these with the trainee pilot during the simulator debriefing.
Training
- Review the client’s Training and Checking Authorization form prior to conducting any training.
- Provide simulator instruction on one or more aircraft types, requiring four or more hours per session in the simulator, excluding briefing and debriefing time.
- Conduct pre- and post-flight simulator briefings in a thorough and professional manner.
- Deliver classroom instruction via Simfinity, CBT, IPT, or stand-up lectures, requiring 8 to 10 hours of standing and/or sitting in the classroom.
- If assigned, support the development and certification of training curriculum and devices, including simulators, FTDs, and FMS training aids.
- If assigned to ground school, obtain FAA/EASA ground school and simulator instructor designation within approximately 12 months.
- Acquire the necessary qualifications to serve as an examiner and perform examiner duties under the relevant authority for the assigned aircraft fleet.
- Perform seat support duties as required.
- Complete miscellaneous tasks such as maintaining training records, recommending remedial training when necessary, and tracking personal instructional qualifications.
- Prepare and inspect classroom facilities and equipment prior to the start of each training day.
- Recommend candidates for licensing checks based on training performance and readiness.
- If assigned, act as a subject matter expert in the creation and review of curriculum and courseware.
- Deliver MCC training for stand-alone courses and multi-pilot operations on SPHPCA types, as per instructor certification (if applicable).
Position Type
Regular
CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.
Equal Opportunity Employer
CAE is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender indentity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, veteran status, age, or other characteristics protected by local laws.
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