NewsBot
Administrator
Boeing Company Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base, KWT, International:
Location Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base, KWT;Lemoore, CA
Security Clearance Required? Current Secret - US Citizenship Required
about security clearance definitions
Position Description
This position is located in Kuwait and provides Contractor Instructor Services to the Kuwait Air Force (KAF) as part of a Foreign Military Sales contract. Provides academic, simulator, and flight instruction to KAF pilots in KAF F/A-18 aircraft. Conducts familiarization, qualification, upgrade, standardization, flight, and ground instruction in support of KAF 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 KAF operations and training staff in development of aircrew instruction philosophy and syllabi, evaluation criteria, and approaches for standardizing training materials, delivery, and training standards. Establishes qualifications and training standards. Primary training site is at Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base in Kuwait. Deploys to other sites in and out of Kuwait at KAF discretion to support training operations. Accompanies senior KAF representatives to international F/A-18 related conferences at KAF discretion. International travel may be required to attend NATOPs and safety related conferences on behalf of the KAF. Job requires completion of appropriate KAF F/A-18 requalification training if not current in the aircraft, and graduation from the KAF Instructor Under Training syllabus. Job requires compliance with NATOPs 3710.7U standards including recurring swim physiology and hypoxia training. Positions are contingent on contract award.
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.
[ + ] Contributing To Team Success
Makes procedural or process suggestions to work group members, other internal employees, and occasionally external customers for achieving team goals or performing team functions; provides necessary resources or helps to remove obstacles to help the team accomplish its goals; listens to and fully involves others in team decisions and actions; values and uses individual differences and talents; shares important or relevant information with the team; adheres to the team’s expectations and guidelines; fulfills team responsibilities; demonstrates personal commitment to the team.
[ + ] 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.
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 flying F/A-18 aircraft within the last 2 years?
Do you have at least 1000 hours in the F/A-18 and do you have experience as a Division Lead?
Do you meet F/A-18 NATOPS/ OPNAVINST 3710.7U (section 8.3.2.18) Anthropometric Requirements for duty in an ejection seat aircraft?
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 technology field of study.
Other Job related information
This position requires previous experience as a US Navy or US Marine Corps F/A-18 pilot; applicants without F/A-18 experience will not be considered. F/A-18 Fleet Replacement Squadron Instructor Pilot preferred. Must have experience flying F/A-18 aircraft within the last 2 years, at least 1000 hours in the F/A-18, and have experience as a Division Lead. Advanced schools, Top Gun, Weapons and Tactics Instructor, Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System Instructor preferred. F/A-18 E/F experience preferred. Previous military supervisory experience preferred. SECRET clearance required. TOP SECRET clearance preferred. Positions are contingent on contract award.
Closing Date: 07/08/2014about closing dates
Continue reading...
Location Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base, KWT;Lemoore, CA
Security Clearance Required? Current Secret - US Citizenship Required
about security clearance definitions
Position Description
This position is located in Kuwait and provides Contractor Instructor Services to the Kuwait Air Force (KAF) as part of a Foreign Military Sales contract. Provides academic, simulator, and flight instruction to KAF pilots in KAF F/A-18 aircraft. Conducts familiarization, qualification, upgrade, standardization, flight, and ground instruction in support of KAF 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 KAF operations and training staff in development of aircrew instruction philosophy and syllabi, evaluation criteria, and approaches for standardizing training materials, delivery, and training standards. Establishes qualifications and training standards. Primary training site is at Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base in Kuwait. Deploys to other sites in and out of Kuwait at KAF discretion to support training operations. Accompanies senior KAF representatives to international F/A-18 related conferences at KAF discretion. International travel may be required to attend NATOPs and safety related conferences on behalf of the KAF. Job requires completion of appropriate KAF F/A-18 requalification training if not current in the aircraft, and graduation from the KAF Instructor Under Training syllabus. Job requires compliance with NATOPs 3710.7U standards including recurring swim physiology and hypoxia training. Positions are contingent on contract award.
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.
[ + ] Contributing To Team Success
Makes procedural or process suggestions to work group members, other internal employees, and occasionally external customers for achieving team goals or performing team functions; provides necessary resources or helps to remove obstacles to help the team accomplish its goals; listens to and fully involves others in team decisions and actions; values and uses individual differences and talents; shares important or relevant information with the team; adheres to the team’s expectations and guidelines; fulfills team responsibilities; demonstrates personal commitment to the team.
[ + ] 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.
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 flying F/A-18 aircraft within the last 2 years?
Do you have at least 1000 hours in the F/A-18 and do you have experience as a Division Lead?
Do you meet F/A-18 NATOPS/ OPNAVINST 3710.7U (section 8.3.2.18) Anthropometric Requirements for duty in an ejection seat aircraft?
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 technology field of study.
Other Job related information
This position requires previous experience as a US Navy or US Marine Corps F/A-18 pilot; applicants without F/A-18 experience will not be considered. F/A-18 Fleet Replacement Squadron Instructor Pilot preferred. Must have experience flying F/A-18 aircraft within the last 2 years, at least 1000 hours in the F/A-18, and have experience as a Division Lead. Advanced schools, Top Gun, Weapons and Tactics Instructor, Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System Instructor preferred. F/A-18 E/F experience preferred. Previous military supervisory experience preferred. SECRET clearance required. TOP SECRET clearance preferred. Positions are contingent on contract award.
- Business Unit Defense, Space&Security
- Division Global Services & Support
- Program Tsgs
- Job Type Non-Management
- Experience Level Career/Experienced
- US Person Status Required? Yes
Closing Date: 07/08/2014about closing dates
Continue reading...
