Loadmaster Instructor
A Secret Clearance, or the ability to obtain one, is required for this position.
Overview
The Loadmaster Instructor plays a vital role in delivering expert training across diverse environments, including classrooms, simulators, and aircraft. This position focuses on instructing Loadmasters in the precise procedures for loading, securing, and escorting cargo and passengers. Responsibilities extend to managing curriculum and the training process, encompassing student counseling, detailed recordkeeping, ensuring safety and equipment maintenance, driving process improvements, and delivering specific certified training courses.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide comprehensive Loadmaster instruction within aircraft, classroom, simulator, and other relevant platforms.
- Demonstrate thorough proficiency in evaluating, diagnosing, and critically assessing student performance. Identify learning difficulties, recognize objectives not met, and prescribe and conduct effective remedial instruction.
- Deliver mandatory Crew Resource Management (CRM) training.
- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the development of new curriculum for new course types as needed.
- Act as a Lesson Subject Matter Expert for reviewing and providing input on existing lessons or proposed changes.
- Contribute suggestions for enhancing and updating training policies and procedures.
- Promote a positive learning environment that encourages embracing new technologies and tasks.
- Conduct ground training for other crewmembers, including diagnosing and remediating student issues.
- Assist with project and development tasks as assigned.
- Perform essential administrative duties, such as scheduling, maintaining records, monitoring student progress, providing counseling, ensuring quality assurance, managing safety and security, and maintaining training programs and equipment.
- Maintain requisite proficiency in the operation of essential Aircrew Training Devices.
- Fulfill and maintain requirements for CCAF currency.
- Acquire and sustain proficiency in cargo load training, aircraft servicing, and the operation of aircraft systems and equipment.
- Must be physically capable of entering the simulator, experiencing simulator motion, and ensuring the safety of attendees while on board.
- Must be able to stand and conduct academic instruction in simulators and classrooms for extended periods (up to eight hours daily) and operate the console as required for training delivery.
- Recognize that aviation instruction is a highly specialized function demanding prior aircraft operating experience to establish credibility and effectively engage customer attendees.
- Perform observation flights biennially in MEP status aboard aircraft as required.
- Ensure strict compliance with AETCI 36-2909 standards.
- Perform other duties as assigned to support training operations.
Qualifications
- Must have previously qualified as an Instructor Loadmaster with a minimum of 200 flight hours, or possess a minimum of two years of C-5 Instructor Loadmaster experience.
- Possess a minimum of an Associate's degree from a regionally accredited college, as outlined in AFI 36-2304.