Technical Instructor

Acron Aviation; Crawley; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Pension 7% employer contribution

Life Assurance 4x salary

Group income protection

Flexible opt-in extras

Employee assistance program

Subsidised staff restaurant

Staff car park with EV charging

Job summary

Acron Aviation in Crawley seeks a Technical Instructor to design and deliver maintenance training for customers worldwide, using baseline material and customer-specific content. You will validate materials before delivery and adapt courseware to match options.

Working with minimal supervision, you will manage outputs within budget and timescales, report risks, and assist with EDF content creation when not delivering trainings. International travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Qualified civilian or military instructor with at least 2 years' delivery experience.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Degree or equivalent in maths, science or engineering, or 4 years' industry experience.
• At least 2 years' technical experience in the relevant domain.
• Computing knowledge including Windows/Linux operating systems.
• Willingness to work shifts and travel UK/overseas as needed.

Responsibilities

• Be a presentational expert in delivering innovative, customer focused training.
• Analyze aircraft, equipment and wiring drawings.
• Be a valued member of the instructional team, sharing technical expertise within the group.
• Cooperate in the defining of departmental and company processes.
• Have the initiative to work autonomously and plan and direct their work to meet the output.
• Technical authority for a particular system or subject matter.
• Maintain comprehensive lesson plan diaries documenting events on training courses.

Skills

Instruction delivery

Communication skills

Hardware/OS knowledge

Problem solving

Education

Degree in maths/science/engineering or equivalent

Job description

About Acron Aviation

Acron Aviation is an agile commercial aviation partner with a long heritage of providing established, industry-certified solutions, as well as future-focused, data-driven innovations. With customers across the globe our employees are committed to the company mission of innovating to create safer skies. For more information visit acronaviation.com

Primary Purpose Of The Role

The Technical Instructor is responsible to the Head of Customer Support for designing and delivering Maintenance Training to customers from a wide variety of cultures and ethnic backgrounds that will allow them to understand and maintain our delivered simulator devices. This training may be delivered in-house or at the Customer facility and at a time that allows sufficient access to the simulation devices. They are to use the latest baseline material supported by eLearning to ensure that it matches the customer options and deviations before submitting the customer specific material for validation in advance of the delivery.

The Technical Instructor is expected to work efficiently and with the minimal amount of supervision, to produce the necessary output within the allocated budget and timescales. If the Instructor comes across any unforeseen technical problem, then they are to ensure that these are highlighted and resolved in line with local department and company procedures. They are to be proactive in highlighting issues with resources, risks to schedules or costs would be raised with the Department Manager well in advance of the issue becoming a criticality.

When not designing and delivering courseware, the Technical Instructor is to assist with the creation, publication and validation of the technical content of the Electronic Documentation Facility (EDF). This customer facing information describes the tasks needed to support the corrective and preventive maintenance of the simulation devices. If there is the opportunity, the creation of the Course and EDF content should be completed in parallel sharing as many of the drawings/ pictures as possible.

Our Benefits Include

• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support
• Subsidised staff restaurant
• Staff car park incl. electric vehicle charging stations

Key Responsibilities and Tasks

• Be a presentational expert in delivering innovative, customer focused training.
• Be able to analyse aircraft, equipment and wiring drawings
• Be a valued member of the instructional team, sharing technical expertise within the group.
• Cooperate in the defining of the departmental and company processes
• Have the initiative to work autonomously and plan and direct their work to meet the output.
• Technical authority for a particular system or subject matter
• Maintain comprehensive lesson plan diaries documenting events occurring on the training course, including technical, behavioural and cultural

Demonstrate the company values:

• Customer First
• Own It
• Move Fast
• Speak with Candour

Essential Skills and Experience Required

• A qualified civilian or military instructor with at least 2 years’ experience and be able to demonstrate effective delivery of technical instruction.
• Be able to demonstrate excellent communication and inter-personal skills
• A suitable degree or equivalent experience (with maths, science or engineering content) or a minimum 4 years appropriate experience in industry.
• Typically, at least 2 years technical experience in the skill, discipline and/or domain associated with the functional area
• Will have demonstrated technical expertise including problem solving skills
• Ideally will have computing knowledge and experience including hardware and Windows/ Linux operating systems
• Willingness to work shift/ unsociable hours both in the UK and overseas to prepare and deliver high-quality training.

Please note: All candidates who wish to be considered for this vacancy must have the right to work in the UK.