Senior Technical Professional

About This Role

Summary

Provides technical leadership for the design, development, production, test and sell off of simulation training devices. Applies mature engineering knowledge and planning. Fosters the development of a common vision, provides technical direction and priorities; clarifies roles and responsibilities within the team. Acts as technical link between CAE and customer.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Responsible for arranging and directing technical activities of large scale programs, coordinates engineering activities across many disciplines.
• Ensures that company’s flight simulation product matches the aircraft, meets contractual requirements and all functional areas within engineering are compliant to the technical requirements for each assigned project
• Schedules and coordinates hardware and software integration phase
• Commands a clear understanding of Hardware and Software Integration (HSI) issues
• Implements corrective measures for all HSI issues that are not compliant to requirements
• Provides technical expertise during subjective and objective evaluations of training devices
• Manages the resolution of all acceptance faults. Participate in installations and final sell off of training devices. Coordinate and review technical/operational deliverables prior to submission to customer. Responsible for training device from requirements to final acceptance
• Authors, coordinates and leads presentations of formal reviews with customers as required by assigned project
• Provides support for Program Managers on all technical matters. Act as the focal point for all customer technical matters with hands on solutions to hardware and software problems.
• Resolves technical problems and provides technical support on sub-system designs
• Assign project team to specific tasks based on project requirement Develops overall system architecture for a project and technical directives and standards to transfer technical knowledge of product capabilities to customer
• Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) cost estimate reviews - Firm Fixed Price cost estimate reviews - Technical Specification generation and reviews - Responses to Request for Proposal (RFP) - Technical supervision and assessment of sub-contracted efforts
• Undertakes independent studies, analysis, interpretations and conclusions
• Provides guidance to junior team members.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• BS or MS Degree in engineering
• Minimum of 10 years work experience with 7 years in flight simulation
• Flight simulation experience with detailed knowledge of flight simulator hardware and software technology
• Must demonstrate the ability to create and understand technical documents related to aircraft, computers, electronics and flight simulation technology
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills Security Responsibilities
• Must comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures. Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval. All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.
• Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance

Work Environment

Work is performed in an environment where irritants such as noise from telephones, temperature, and lighting variations may exist, but there is little chance of injury, accident, or occupational health problems.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Must be able to perform normal office duties (sitting for long periods at a desk and in technical meetings)
• Must be able to travel CONUS and to International sites for extended periods Should be familiar with and be able to operate simulation training devices such as: full flight motion devices, maintenance training devices, entertainment devices and fixed base training devices.
• Should be familiar with and able to support Engineering or Operations staff on any type and sub-component of training devices.
• Must be able to climb stairs on a regular basis
• Must be willing to work overtime

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and View activities may change at any time with or without notice.

CAE USA Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any protected characteristic, including disability and protected veteran status, as defined under federal, state, or local laws.

Applicants needing reasonable accommodations should contact their recruiter at any point in the recruitment process. If you need assistance to submit your application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at hrops@caemilusa.com

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.