Rotary Wing Instructor Pilot
CAE is accepting resumes for rotary wing instructor pilots to train new student pilots enrolled in the United States Air Force Air Education and Training Commands, Introductory Flight Training - Rotary (IFT-R) program.
Essential duties and responsibilities include conducting contact flight training and instrument familiarization in support of the USAF IFT-R program, coordinating with the CAE IFT-R Chief Pilot, Director of Quality Assurance, Standardization, and the USAF, ensuring compliance with applicable standards, participating in the Quality Management System, quality procedures, and safety programs, keeping current with changes and modifications to external standards, managing the standardization, evaluation, and examiner plan, coordinating examiner activities, interfacing with appropriate members of the program, customer, and CAE USA staff, identifying and executing process improvement opportunities, conducting business in compliance with all corporate policies and procedures, and presenting metrics to measure process performance levels.
Qualifications and education requirements include being an FAA FAA-certified commercial pilot, Helicopter with an Instrument helicopter rating, FAA Certificated Flight Instructor Helicopter with Instrument Helicopter Instructor rating required, a graduate of a US DOD formal Rotary Wing Instructor Pilot training program, and having a total flight time of 1,000 hours, including 500 hours of turbine helicopter time, 100 hours of hooded instrument, flight simulator instrument, or weather pilot time, and 75 hours of night flying time. Must have 500 hours of Flight Instructor time, have taught as a Helicopter Instructor Pilot with experience in primary flight training and in a military initial flight training course or FAA 14CFR Part 61 and/or Part 141 environments, and have instructed students in instrument flight training.
Preferred skills include an Associate of Science degree, a graduate of DoD helicopter instructor pilot course, and a total flight time of 2,500 hours, including 1,000 hours of helicopter instructor and 1,500 hours of helicopter turbine.
Security responsibilities include complying with all company security and data protection/usage policies and procedures, being eligible for a DoD Personal Security Clearance.
Physical demands include the ability to lift at least 40 pounds overhead, walk and/or climb stairs and ladder into a simulator or airplane cockpit, stoop, bend, and crawl on top of or under the device, and detect odors or hear noises to detect problems or flaws in the functioning of simulators and their surrounding environment.
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.