Aircraft/Aviation Instructor (Experience with Helicopters Required) - 50% Travel - Ridley Park, PA

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

Come make an impact in the Public Sector! Join our team to do meaningful work and support high-impact government missions.

GP Strategies Government Solutions, Inc. Government Training Solutions | GP Strategies, a wholly owned subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation, focuses on helping every public sector team unlock its full potential through people performance solutions.

Our work directly supports mission critical government agencies, including:

• Air Force
• Army
• Department of Defense (DoD)
• Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)
• Department of Homeland Security
• NASA
• National Highway Institute (NHI) | Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
• State & Local Governments

Our Mission is meaningful and powerful: to deliver innovative people performance through off the shelf and custom learning, mission specialists, and technology solutions, building deep partnerships with customers to help them achieve measurable mission and company performance improvements.

GP Strategies Corporation, the corporate parent of GP Strategies Government Solutions, is a global leader in talent transformation, dedicated to empowering organizations to unlock their full potential. We help businesses enhance workforce performance and achieve strategic goals through innovative, technology-enabled learning solutions. For over 50 years, with a proven track record of supporting over 6,000 global organizations worldwide, we combine human expertise with AI-driven insights to deliver customized strategies that upskill talent, drive technology adoption, and optimize critical processes.

GP Strategies has an opening for an Aviation Instructor to support a large aerospace client in Ridley Park, PA. We are seeking candidates who are able to conduct training covering a broad range of Aircraft electrical, mechanical, structural and systems subject matter including, but not limited to, shield terminations, crimping, bond & ground, soldering, seal, hole drilling, fastener installation/removal, and more. This is a full-time, benefitted position and will involve 50% travel Internationally and throughout the U.S. Background/Experience with heavy aircraft is required.

Job Summary:

• Confers with management/client to understand work situation. Performs needs, job and task analysis to determine training required for trainees to better understand changes in policies, procedures, regulations and technologies.
• Recommends an implementation plan for development of instructional methods and delivery of individual training, group instruction, lectures, demonstrations, conferences, meetings and workshops.
• Designs and develops teaching outlines and specific training to address the client needs by incorporating methods and requirements of instructional systems such as Instructional Systems Development (ISD), Systematic Approach to Training (SAT) or Training Systems Development (TSD) process.
• Selects or develops teaching aids such as training handbooks, demonstration models, multimedia visual aids, computer tutorials and reference works.
• Delivers training sessions covering specified areas of technical specialty.
• Designs and develops exams to measure progress and to evaluate effectiveness of recommended training.
• Evaluates training programs and reports on trainee progress.
• Maintains training programs and materials.
• Travels to client sites as needed.
• This role may require work on multiple shifts.

Qualifications:

• Education, training and/or prior experience in electrical, mechanical, or structures systems
• 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 preferred: C-17, 747 or KC46

Desired Skills:

• Engineering Drawings/Interpretation Experience (B/P, Drawings, Specifications, Repair Manuals)
• 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)
• Background/Experience in one or more of the noted platforms: F-18, F-15, or F-22

Requirements:

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

General physical requirements needed to perform the essential functions of this job may vary based on location of assignment.

Assignment Location – Ridley Park, PA

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.

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.

At GP Strategies Government Solutions culture focuses on performance and revolves around respect, fairness, and working collaboratively to achieve our goals. We support our People, no matter who they are or where they are from, because we all have valuable and unique perspectives and approaches. That's how great ideas are born, which enable us to work smarter.

GP Strategies Government Solutions is committed and proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other federally protected class.

GP Government Solutions is a subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation, a global workforce-transformation company with over 50 plus years of experience. To find out more, please visit us as

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