F'A 18 Instructor Pilot Job in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma US
F'A 18 Instructor Pilot
Location Oklahoma City, OK;Sungai Buloh, Malaysia Security Clearance Required? Ability to Obtain Interim Clearance (Pre-Start) and Final Clearance (Post Start) - US Citizenship Required about security clearance definitions Position Description This position is located in Malaysia and provides Contractor Instructor Services to the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) as part of a Foreign Military Sales contract. Provides academic, simulator, and flight instruction to RMAF pilots and Weapons Systems Operators in the RMAF F/A-18 aircraft. Conducts familiarization, qualification, upgrade, standardization, flight, and ground instruction in support of RMAF courses ranging from CAT I to advanced training, including air-to-air gunnery, day/night in-flight refueling, and day/night low level training. Maintains aircrew training materials and courseware. Assists the RMAF operations and training staff in development of aircrew instruction philosophy, evaluation criteria, and approach for standardizing training materials. Establishes qualifications and training standards. Primary training site is at Butterworth AB in Malaysia. Deploys to other sites in and out of Malaysia at RMAF discretion to support training operations. Accompanies senior RMAF representatives to international F/A-18 related conferences at RMAF discretion. International travel required to attend NATOPs and safety related conferences on behalf of the RMAF. Job requires completion of appropriate RMAF F/A-18 requalification training if not current in the aircraft, and graduation from the RMAF Instructor Under Training syllabus. Job requires compliance with NATOPs 3710.7U standards including recurring water swim physiology and hypoxia training. Competencies General + Adaptability Understands changes in own and others work and situations; may be asked to explain the logic or basis for change to less experienced employees; actively seeks information about changes affecting own and fellow employees jobs. Treats changes and new situations as opportunities for learning or growth; focuses on the beneficial aspects of change; speaks positively about the change to fellow interorganizational employees and occasionally to external customers. Quickly modifies behavior to deal effectively with changes in the work environment; readily tries new approaches appropriate for new or changed situations; does not persist with ineffective behaviors. + Coaching/Teaching Clarifies expected behaviors, knowledge, and level of proficiency by seeking and giving information and checking for understanding. Provides instruction, positive modeling, and opportunities for observation in order to help fellow work group members, internal employees and occasionally external customers develop skills; encourages questions to ensure understanding. Gives timely, appropriate feedback on performance; reinforces efforts and progress. Establishes good interpersonal relationships by helping fellow work group members, internal employees and occasionally external customers, feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions. + Communication Clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence. Keeps the audience engaged through use of techniques such as analogies, illustrations, humor, an appealing style, body language, and voice inflection. Frames the message in line with audience experience, background, and expectations; uses terms, examples, and analogies that are meaningful to the audience. Seeks input from audience; checks understanding; presents message in different ways to enhance understanding. Uses syntax, pace, volume, diction, and mechanics appropriate to the media being used. Accurately interprets messages from others and responds appropriately. + Customer Focus Makes customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions; develops and sustains productive customer relationships; uses information to understand customers circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs; periodically becomes involved in sharing information with customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities; considers how actions or plans will affect customers; responds quickly to meet customer needs and resolve problems; assists higher graded employees and/or project team leaders in implementing ways to monitor and evaluate customer concerns, issues, and satisfaction and to anticipate customer needs. + Decision Making Recognizes a wide range of potentially difficult issues, problems, or opportunities in own work group, across the organization and occasionally with external customers; determines whether action is needed. Identifies the need for and collects information to better understand difficult issues, problems, and opportunities. Integrates information from a wide variety of sources; detects trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships; creates relevant options for addressing difficult problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes. Formulates and/or makes recommendations for decision criteria based on issue complexity; evaluates options by considering implications and consequences; chooses an effective option. Implements decisions or initiates action within a reasonable time. Includes fellow work group members, employees across the organization, and occasionally external customers in the decision-making process as warranted to obtain good information, make the most appropriate decisions, and ensure buy-in and understanding of the resulting decisions. + Planning And Organizing Identifies more critical and less critical activities and assignments; adjusts priorities when appropriate. Determines project or assignment requirements by breaking them down into tasks and identifying types of equipment, materials, and people needed. Allocates appropriate amounts of time for completing own work; avoids scheduling conflicts. Takes advantage of available resources (individuals, processes, departments, and tools) to complete work efficiently; coordinates with internal and external partners. Uses time effectively and prevents irrelevant issues or distractions from interfering with work completion. Technical + Aircraft Knowledge Complete knowledge of airplane components, systems and terminology at a GenFam level. + Aircraft Operations Complete knowledge and ability to use standard crew resource management, weight and balance calculations, navigation procedures, airspace, meteorology, aircraft performance data, communication operations, flight planning, industry regulations and pilot aviation skills to perform aircraft operations. + Flight Instruction Techniques Intermediate knowledge of flight instruction techniques (e.g., analysis of student errors, planning of instructional periods, assessment of progress, laws of learning) for aircraft. The ability to comprehend and communicate program related operational requirements. + Flight Safety Complete knowledge of company and industry safety initiatives and strategies to reduce the world aircraft accident rate. Knowledge of operational flight safety, including industry-wide current safety topics (e.g., approach and landing, upset, Controlled Flight into Terrain CFIT ). Basic Qualifications For Consideration Do you have experience as a U.S. Navy or USMC F/A-18 NATOPS pilot? Do you have experience with F/A-18 NATOPS/ OPNAVINST 3710.7U (section 8.3.2.18) Anthropometric Requirements for duty in an ejection seat aircraft? Do you have experience flying F/A-18 aircraft within the last 2 years? Are you willing to relocate to Malaysia? Do you have at least 1000 hours in the F/A-18 and do you have experience as a Division Lead? Typical Education/Experience Technical bachelor's degree and typically 5 or more years related work experience or a Master's degree with typically 3 or more years or a PhD degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience. A technical degree is defined as any four year degree, or greater, in a mathematic, scientific or information