Role and Responsibilities
Join our team of experienced Simulator Instructors at RAF Benson across the Merlin, Chinook, and Puma platforms. You’ll be responsible for training from aircraft type conversion of students of varying levels of experience to teaching and mentoring crews across the full spectrum of the aircraft’s capabilities. This will include techniques and tactics within immersive realistic environmental and operational scenarios, day and night.
On occasion, you may also need to operate the IOS/TCC on aircraft types for which you’re not qualified, undertake CBT/CAI instruction in the ground school to support. You may also qualify as an instrument rating examiner in order to conduct tests within the simulator environment.
We’re looking for experienced QHIs join our team, along with good communication, leadership, and teamwork skills. CAE can offer the necessary training, re-training, and recertification to get you fully integrated with our team. We’re ideally looking for full time employees, but we may be able to consider part time opportunities in some cases. We’re also interested in talking to you even if it’s for future career moves.
What are we looking for?
+ Qualified Helicopter Instructor (QHI): B1, A1, or A2
+ Ideally experienced on one of the platforms CAE supports (Chinook, Merlin, Puma), but we’re considering people with experience on other platforms with a willingness to undergo training
+ Excellent leadership, teaching, and communication skills
Location:
RAF Benson, Oxfordshire
CAE Offers:
+ Attractive salary package
+ Generous holiday entitlement with flexibility to increase number of annual leave dates
+ Private health insurance
+ Share purchase scheme
+ Cycle to work scheme
+ Electric car scheme
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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.
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At CAE, we equip people in critical roles with the expertise and solutions to create a safer world. As a technology company, we digitalize the physical world, deploying simulation training and critical operations support solutions. Above all else, we empower pilots, airlines, defence and security forces, and healthcare practitioners to perform at their best every day and when the stakes are the highest. Around the globe, we’re everywhere customers need us to be with more than 13,000 employees in more than 200 sites and training locations in over 40 countries. CAE represents 75 years of industry firsts—the highest-fidelity flight and mission simulators, surgical manikins, and personalized training programs powered by artificial intelligence. We’re investing our time and resources into building the next generation of cutting-edge, digitally immersive training and critical operations solutions while keeping positive environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact at the core of our mission. Today and tomorrow, we’ll make sure our customers are ready for the moments that matter.