About This Role
Boeing Aerospace Operations is seeking a senior F/A-18 instructor pilot to provide flight, simulator, and academic instruction to Kuwait Air Force pilots at Ahmed Al-Jaber Air Base, Kuwait. The long-term assignment may last up to five years and supports F/A-18E/F Block III Super Hornet training, including qualification, upgrade, standardization, air-to-air gunnery, air-to-ground strike, in-flight refueling, and low-level operations. The role also supports courseware development, training standards, scheduling, liaison activities, and monthly sortie and qualification reporting.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Provides flight, simulator, and academic instruction to Kuwait Air Force pilots in customer-owned F/A-18E/F Block III Super Hornet aircraft. Conducts familiarization, qualification, upgrade, standardization, flight, and ground instruction for courses ranging from CAT I through advanced training, including air-to-air gunnery, air-to-ground strike, day and night in-flight refueling, and day and night low-level training. Maintains training materials and courseware
- helps develop instructional philosophy, syllabi, evaluation criteria, and standardized training approaches
- serves as a subject-matter expert for courseware maintenance
- supports aircraft, employment, and weapons briefings
- establishes qualifications and training standards
- liaises between Boeing and subcontractor personnel on residency, immigration, and base-access matters
- coordinates with the Kuwait Air Force on pilot and ground-training specialist scheduling and availability
- communicates time-sensitive information across the in-country instructional team
- and provides monthly sortie, simulator completion, and qualification-status metrics to the site manager. The position is 100% onsite, with possible U.S.-based training before relocation to Kuwait and travel for NATOPS and safety-related conferences.
What We Offer
Relocation and assignment benefits for the international Kuwait assignment will be provided.Boeing offers a Total Rewards package that may include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities, health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, and paid and unpaid time away from work.Specific programs vary based on eligibility, location, hire date, and applicable collective bargaining agreements.The posting also states that relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.
Requirements
- Required qualifications include 750 hours or more of Pilot-In-Command and/or Instructor Pilot time in the F/A-18 or an equivalent fighter aircraft
- current F/A-18 NATOPS or equivalent qualification
- compliance with CNAF-M 3710.7 standards, including recurrent swim physiology and hypoxia training
- F/A-18 anthropometric requirements for ejection-seat aircraft
- and completion of appropriate KAF F/A-18 Block III differences training or transition in the aircraft. The position requires an active U.S. Secret Security Clearance and U.S. citizenship. Candidates must be able to obtain a work visa, meet applicable cultural requirements, satisfy all labor and immigration formalities, and pass the Company’s Conflict of Interest process. Employment is contingent upon immigration quota availability from the Kuwait Ministry of the Interior, and Boeing will not sponsor employment visas. Preferred qualifications include combined F/A-18C and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet experience, Fleet Replacement Squadron Instructor Pilot or F/A-18 Division Lead experience, Top Gun Weapons and Tactics Instructor experience, and Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System Instructor experience. Post-offer drug and alcohol testing may apply under Boeing policy.