Simulator Fleet Manager - Flight Training Facilities

Job Purpose

Emirates Flight Training Facilities offer an advanced facility with full-flight simulators for Emirates' Airbus and Boeing fleet. It is a modern training facility for its flight deck crew. The Flight Training Facilities provide a range of world-class training and development programs for its workforce and other aviation professionals. In Dubai, these include the Emirates Flight Training Academy for cadets, Emirates Aviation University, the Emirates Cabin Crew Training Centre, and numerous programs specially created for different segments of its employees.

Technical management of a team of Senior Engineers and control of configurations and updates of the flight simulator fleet and associated training devices, ensuring simulators meet the internal quality and training objectives and external regulatory requirements. You will ensure optimisation of the simulator fleet fidelity & evaluate fleet safety updates and flight training evolutions and their relevance to the simulator fleet.

In This Role, You Will

• Monitor and control the status of the simulators in the fleet and report to Manager Flight Training Facilities-MFTF on device availability, reliability and issues of operational concern across the fleet. Update flight training to ensure optimum rostering for devices.
• You will manage a team of Senior Engineers, setting objectives and identifying technical and developmental training needs. The job holder must apply specialist technical knowledge and must priorities issues with operational or regulatory impact as well as continue to provide direction ensuring consistency across the fleet.
• Maintain and manage the modification status of the training devices across the fleet in accordance with international regulatory requirements. Monitor aircraft fleet developments to assess Flight Training impact and recommend an appropriate plan for training device modification or update. The job will involve technical interaction with EK Engineering, Flight Training, Flight Operations Performance and Engineering and external airframe and avionic suppliers.
• Identify device technical specifications and scope of updates. Device updates may be complex and involve external interaction with agencies and suppliers. Analyse budgetary requirements for device updates and report and recommend to MFTF. You will manage the project lifecycle.
• To ensure technical documentation for training devices is appropriately updated and published for devices within fleet; and ensure common training functionality across devices to maximise device utilisation.
• Ensure that device status reports for local and international regulatory authority are completed for the certification of the training devices within the fleet. Present the training devices to international regulatory authorities for certification in conjunction with the Manager Quality Assurance and Audit-MQA&A.
• Manage and plan activities in order to ensure allocated tasks and projects are completed within the required cost and time scales to maintain or meet operational requirements.
• Develop and maintain close technical and support links with industry training equipment and avionics suppliers. Monitor training device supplier released service bulletins for applicability to fleet and take appropriate action.
• Maintain technical specifications for future training device procurements in cooperation with the FTF Projects Manager. Continuously update with technology and regulatory advances to ensure that device specifications meet current and future industry training philosophy.
  
  

Qualification

To be considered for the role, you must meet the below requirements:

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent).
• Minimum of 8 years solid experience in Engineering Flight Simulator.
• Professional experience within the simulation and training equipment industry, with strong flight simulation technical background.
• Track record of managing medium to large technical projects with experience of justifying, planning and implementing new solutions.
• Must be able to promote and gain acceptance of new technical solutions with FTF Management and Engineers.
• Experiential knowledge will also be a significant factor in assessing situations and planning resolution of problems encountered.
  
  

Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That’s on top of transport benefits, life insurance and more. Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www.emirates.com/careers

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