As an Instructor Pilot at CAE, your role soars beyond training. You build confidence and skill, inspire mastery, and ensure pilots are prepared for the moments that matter. Whether leading simulator sessions or pre-flight briefings, you’ll contribute to CAE’s legacy of flight training excellence while keeping your own skills sharp. Supported by advanced training and cutting-edge technology, you’ll grow as an educator and find purpose in helping pilots excel, no matter the challenges they face.
Who We Are:
CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, and civil aviation by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness.
CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.
CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.
What We Have to Offer:
Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance
A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe
Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions
Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun!
Summary
A Test Director (TD) shall provide the testing and evaluation of Military Single or Multi-Engine Fixed-Wing aircraft for the design, development, production, test, and sell-off of simulation training devices. A Test Director builds, leads, and executes integration, test and deployment activities and plans to evaluate program requirements that have been verified and validated prior to customer acceptance.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Participate in all phases of system design, including requirements definition
Subject Matter Experts (SME) for their application
Manages Hardware & software system integration
Conducts mission environment testing
Lead all test effort; system tests, acceptance tests, configuration, scheduling, and customer interface
Write test plans, conduct tests, document results, and ensure discrepancy resolution
Manages discrepancy review boards
Monitor and control testing aspects of the program for cost, schedule and technical issues
Qualifications and Education Requirements
SECRET security clearance required
Excellent verbal and written communication skills (customer users, USAF, USN SMEs)
Good analytical skills
Experience interfacing with customers and end users
Ability to explain technical concerns to customer
Ability to lead a team of engineers
Self-motivated to address, evaluate, and if necessary, correct testing concerns
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Knowledge of aircraft systems and the associated environment
Organizational skills and integrity to run a rigorous test program while holding to the contractual requirements
Pilot experience preferably in Block 40,50 F-16 (current Guard or Reserve experience a plus)
Ability to work weekends and off-shifts as required
Ability to travel to site for installs and upgrades
6+ years of related experience
Pilot experience preferably in Block 40,50 F-16 (current Guard or Reserve experience a plus)
Ability to work weekends and off-shifts as required
Ability to travel to site for installs and upgrades
6+ years of related experience
Preferred Skills
TS/SCI clearance a plus
Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business, Computer Science, or Engineering degree
Weapons School or Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor experience a plus
Prefer 6+ years of aviation industry experience
Experience in use of simulation training devices and products
Test experience
Demonstrated experience developing long-term business relationships with…