About This Role
ATR, the world's leading regional turboprop manufacturer (a joint venture of Airbus and Leonardo), is recruiting an experienced ATR Flight Instructor/Examiner (TRI/TRE) for its Training & Flight Operations Directorate (ATR Training Centre). The role is based in Blagnac, near Toulouse, France, and involves delivering classroom, simulator and flight training to ATR customers worldwide, with regular international travel to ATR training centres in Asia and the Americas and to customer sites.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Conduct and deliver comprehensive classroom, simulator and flight training for all ATR customers worldwide, including type rating, difference courses, instructor courses, command upgrade, tailored recurrent training, and line/base training.
- Report any abnormal trainee performance to the Head of Training.
- Develop new training courses and modules.
- Support the ATR Flight Operations department (query management, operational visits).
- Perform subjective fly-outs on qualified FSTDs and support simulator technicians in maintaining simulator approvals.
- Take part in the Safety Management System (SMS) and support the ATR Safety department with event, incident or accident analysis.
- Maintain and upgrade competences in line with qualifications and regulatory/aircraft platform evolutions.
- Work transversally with ATR teams to bring operational/training expertise, support office activities on demand, and travel regularly to support ATR activities worldwide (training centres in Asia/Americas, in-situ customer support for aircraft entry into service, fleet ramp-up or tailored missions).
What We Offer
Permanent contract within a human-size company offering attractive advantages, with Airbus supporting flexible working arrangements wherever possible.
Requirements
- Candidates must hold an EASA licence qualified on the ATR (the ATR type rating must appear on the licence) and be a Captain on the aircraft, holding a valid and current ATR TRI/TRE instructor/examiner rating.
- Significant flight experience as a commercial pilot, including ATR experience and recent command (Captain) experience on type, is required.
- An FAA CPL or previous TCI experience is a plus.
- Candidates need an excellent understanding of aeronautical training activities, FSTD teaching tools and authority expectations (EASA, FAA), the functioning of an aviation training centre and its applicable requirements, and up-to-date knowledge of training regulation changes via EASA regulatory monitoring.
- Experience in developing training programmes (ideally as Chief/Deputy Training Captain or TRI/TRE), good knowledge of Safety Management Systems (SMS), and an appropriate level of experience auditing/evaluating records and systems are needed, together with the ability to create and deliver presentations to customers and authorities.
- Candidates must be customer-oriented, able to build strong relationships with customers, authorities and colleagues, work outside normal business hours when required, work well under pressure, multi-task and meet deadlines.
- Fluent English with the ability to write reports and business correspondence in English is required.