09 July 2025

Flight Safety International | First Officer

Houston, TX, Canada

Simulator Second in Command (SIC)

About FlightSafety International

FlightSafety International is the world’s premier professional aviation training company and a leading supplier of flight simulators, visual systems, and displays to commercial, government, and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians, and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. FlightSafety operates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and offers award-winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom.

Job Summary

The Simulator Second in Command is responsible for maintaining currency in assigned programs to act as "Second-In-Command" for both internal and external Customer Pilots during Recurrent, Initial, or generic training courses within the established training curriculum.

Key Responsibilities

Qualifications

Minimum Education

A high school diploma or Certificate of High School Equivalency (G.E.D.) with two to three (2-3) years of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Minimum Experience

Prior to commencing SIC duties, the applicant must possess the following certificates and minimum flight hours:

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Physical Demands and Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands for manipulation, reach with hands and arms, and communicate verbally. The employee may be required to stand, walk, sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and taste or smell.

Specific physical range of body motion is required to:

  1. Reach, exert pressure, and manipulate rudder/anti-torque controls with both feet.
  2. Reach and manipulate numerous controls within the Simulator device.
  3. Enter and exit the Simulator device via the provided ramp.
  4. Exit from a malfunctioned Simulator while the device is in a severely pitched attitude.

Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts. The employee occasionally works in high, precarious places and in outside weather conditions and may be exposed to wet/humid conditions, fumes, airborne particles, toxic/caustic chemicals, extreme cold/heat, risk of electrical shock/radiation, and vibration.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

FlightSafety is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disabled. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.

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