QinetiQ | Instructor

Location: Boscombe Down, England, GB

Company: QinetiQ

Overall Purpose of the Job:

To deliver training to students on ETPS courses.

Key Accountabilities:

• Required to work within a strong team environment to deliver world class training to students on ETPS courses.
• Deliver lessons and tutorials on various subjects to aspiring and practicing flight test professionals including Test Pilot, FTE and Evaluator Aircrew students.
• Deliver and grade a range of practical assessments including instructional sorties to both test pilot and flight test engineer students.
• Advise and assist in the preparation and conduct of test flying demonstrations and exercises for students.
• Supervise, guide and assess students throughout their courses.
• Draft progress reports for students.
• Carry out course development as required for both existing and new courses.
• Assist in development of future ETPS and QinetiQ facilities for trainng flight test professionals.

Successful outcomes of this role:

• Graduation of trained ETPS students.
• Delivery of short courses.
• Timely and appropriate development and delivery of assigned course content.

Challenges:

• Teaching all aspects of flight test theory and practical techniques to experienced multi-national pilots and engineers.
• Clarifying subject material that is inherently complex so that students of all nationalities can understand and then apply the associated principles.
• Contributing to the continuing high standards of aviation safety inherent in ETPS flying operations.

Person Specification

Essential Education, Qualifications and Training:

• Engineering or Science degree.
• Medically fit to gain an EASA Class 2 Medical category.

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required:

• Completed at least 3 years actively contributing to a range of significant flight test programmes.
• Experience of integrated systems test and evaluation

Essential Personal Qualities and Behavioural Requirements:

• Ability to motivate and inspire
• Team player with good interpersonal skills
• Patient and with a good sense of humour
• Adaptable and approachable
• Required to work in a strong team environment.
• Confident in delivery to a knowledgeable audience.
• Required to apply independent thinking to solve problems.
• Must be willing to travel in both the UK and overseas to participate in course activities as required.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience in at least one of the following fields:
• Experience of evaluating high order fly by wire aircraft control systems
• Experience of rotary wing test and evaluation
• Experience of using simulation in flight test programmes
• Experience leading complex flight test activities
• Teaching/instructional qualification or experience
• Experience of the UK MoD’s Defence Systems Approach to Training (DSAT)
• Graduated from one of the 4 MoD-recognised Test Pilot Schools (ETPS, USNTPS, USAFTPS or EPNER)
• At least 5 years experience within a practical flight test environment
• Be a Chartered Engineer
• Excellent organisational and administrative skills
• Skilled with MS Office, particularly Excel and Powerpoint

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in an diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.