Aviation Instructor - 50% Travel - San Antonio, TX

About the role

Join our team to do meaningful work and support high-impact government missions. GP Strategies Government Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation, helps every public sector team unlock its full potential through people performance solutions. Our work directly supports mission-critical government agencies, including the Department of Defense, Department of Health & Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, and more.

Responsibilities

• Confer with management/client to understand work situation.
• Perform needs, job, and task analysis to determine training required for trainees.
• Recommend an implementation plan for development of instructional methods and delivery of individual training, group instruction, lectures, demonstrations, conferences, meetings, and workshops.
• Select or develop teaching aids such as training handbooks, demonstration models, multimedia visual aids, computer tutorials, and reference works.
• Deliver training sessions covering specified areas of technical specialty.
• Design and develop exams to measure progress and evaluate effectiveness of recommended training.
• Evaluate training programs and report on trainee progress.
• Maintain training programs and materials.
• Travel to client sites as needed.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years education, training, and/or prior experience in electrical, mechanical, or structural systems.
• 2-5 years prior teaching/instructor classroom delivery experience.
• Ability to travel up to 50% to various client locations throughout the U.S. and Internationally.
• Background/experience in one or more of the noted platforms: C-17, 747, or KC46.
• Desired skills: Engineering Drawings/Interpretation Experience, NACES School Ejection Seat Experience, Flight Controls – Rigging, Engineering - Time Compliance Technical Orders (TCTO), Flight Controls/Avionics (APU, avionics, breaks, propulsions/engine runs, hydraulics, jacking, landing gear, and doors).

Requirements

• Possess general physical requirements needed to perform the essential functions of this job, which may vary based on location of assignment.
• Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Fingering (typing), communicating, repetitive motions. Close visual acuity to prepare and analyze data, view computer monitors and read. May need to view presentation screens and other visual aids in a virtual setting.
• Inside environmental conditions with protection from outside elements.

Background/Experience

Background/Experience in one or more of the noted platforms: F-18, F-15, or F-22.