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Lead Simulator Flight Instructor

Mumbai, Maharashtra Job ID JR2025450259 Category Engineering Post Date Apr. 07, 2025
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Job Description

Overview

As a leading global aerospace company, Boeing develops, manufactures and services commercial airplanes, defense products and space systems for customers in more than 150 countries. As a top U.S. exporter, the company leverages the talents of a global supplier base to advance economic opportunity, sustainability and community impact. Boeing’s team is committed to innovating for the future, leading with sustainability, and cultivating a culture based on the company’s core values of safety, quality and integrity.

Technology for today and tomorrow

The Boeing India Engineering & Technology Center (BIETC) is a 5500+ engineering workforce that contributes to global aerospace growth. Our engineers deliver cutting-edge R&D, innovation, and high-quality engineering work in global markets, and leverage new-age technologies such as AI/ML, IIoT, Cloud, Model-Based Engineering, and Additive Manufacturing, shaping the future of aerospace.

People-driven culture

At Boeing, we believe creativity and innovation thrives when every employee is trusted, empowered, and has the flexibility to choose, grow, learn, and explore. We offer variable arrangements depending upon business and customer needs, and professional pursuits that offer greater flexibility in the way our people work. We also believe that collaboration, frequent team engagements, and face-to-face meetings bring together different  perspectives and thoughts – enabling every voice to be heard and every perspective to be respected.  No matter where or how our teammates work, we are committed to positively shaping people’s careers and being thoughtful about employee wellbeing.

With us, you can create and contribute to what matters most in your career, community, country, and world. Join us in powering the progress of global aerospace.

We are looking for a Lead Simulator Flight Instructor to join our team in India (Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad). You will be responsible for the conduct of the highest quality ground and full-flight simulator based instruction for customer flight crews receiving initial, transition, differences and/or recurrent training in accordance with Boeing standards, regulatory guidelines and the approved syllabus. The individual will train, to a high standard, customer flight crews in the safe and efficient operation of large commercial airplanes or other aerospace products or systems by providing accurate technical information through the use of state-of-the-art procedures, training equipment and methods.  The individual may also conduct, as tutor, training of new flight instructors. The individual may also partake in course development and trial tasks as directed by Head of Training.

Responsibilities:

  • Conduct flight crew training of customer pilots during the full flight simulator phase of training at both local and remote, including international, locations.
  • The ability to perform all of the duties required of a Flight Training Instructor, including procedures training and technical instruction.
  • Conduct thorough briefings prior to each training session, as well as debriefings at the end of each training session, to ensure that the customer is fully aware of the training profile, associated pilot competencies, required standards, and his/her performance. Provide a brief outline of the training events for future sessions.
  • Evaluate and accurately document training session performance and progress in the relevant records and reports.
  • Report any customer training problems or conflicts to Flight Training management
  • Conduct, as tutor, training of new flight instructors both in the classroom and in the simulator
  • Perform non-instructional duties as directed by Head of Training, including course development and trial tasks, customer liaison, audits and revisions of existing training programs.
  • Communicate with the simulator maintenance technicians to report any simulator problems or malfunctions
  • Under the direction of Head of Training, Chief Flight Instructor and Chief Theoretical Knowledge Instructor, uphold Boeing instructional standards, including the conduct of Standardisation Checks on other Boeing and contract instructors.
  • In addition Examiner's would conduct regulatory examinations (License Skill Tests, License Proficiency Checks and, where appropriate, Assessments of Competence) of customer and Boeing flight crew and instructors at local and remote, including international, sites.

Basic Qualification(Required Qualifications):

As a general guideline, initial hiring qualifications for a Full Flight Simulator (FFS) Instructor should include:

  • Bachelor degree is required
  • Candidates must hold, be eligible to hold, or have held (this does not apply to a license that has been revoked), an ATP Certificate, License, or Rating (endorsement) from a recognized ICAO signatory country, with a type rating for the airplane on which flight training will be conducted. Candidates who are otherwise highly qualified but not type rated on the appropriate aircraft may become type rated, or the equivalent of type rated, while successfully completing the appropriate course as a student. (Boeing Flight Services may provide rating/endorsement training.)
  • Five years’ experience with a scheduled/non-scheduled jet transport carrier, corporate jet operator or military aviation organization; with a minimum of 2000 hours as PIC.
  • Three years instructional and/or evaluating experience on transport category aircraft with suitable experience as a simulator instructor within the past five years
  • English language fluency - reading, writing, conversational ICAO Level 6 (required).
  • Capable of international travel.
  • Relevant work experiences demonstrating the ability to prepare a lesson plan, interpret and present technical material, and independently teach an airplane model.

Work Environment:

  • Regularly required to work in a confined space of a flight simulator, with a noise level that is usually moderate.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth vision and the ability to focus.
  • Requires a range of body motion to perform the following:

1) reach, exert pressure and manipulate the rudder controls/brakes with both feet;

2) reach and manipulate numerous controls while on the flight deck;

3) fully operate the Instructor Operating Station controls and be able to visually and aurally monitor pilots under training in a flight simulator environment;

4) enter and exit the flight deck of the simulator, including using emergency egress equipment in the event of an emergency.

  • Occasional requirement to travel internationally to conduct duties on behalf of Boeing.

Relocation:

This position does offer relocation based on candidate eligibility within India.


Applications for this position will be accepted until Apr. 15, 2025


Export Control Requirements: This is not an Export Control position.

Relocation

Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.

Visa Sponsorship

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Shift

Not a Shift Worker (India)


Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not accept unlawful discrimination in our recruitment or employment practices on any grounds including but not limited to; race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military and veteran status, or other characteristics covered by applicable law.

We have teams in more than 65 countries, and each person plays a role in helping us become one of the world’s most innovative, diverse and inclusive companies. We are proud members of the Valuable 500 and welcome applications from candidates with disabilities. Applicants are encouraged to share with our recruitment team any accommodations required during the recruitment process. Accommodations may include but are not limited to: conducting interviews in accessible locations that accommodate mobility needs, encouraging candidates to bring and use any existing assistive technology such as screen readers and offering flexible interview formats such as virtual or phone interviews.

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  • Industry-leading tuition assistance program pays your institution directly.
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