Group Leader Technical Services I

Who We Are:  

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, civil aviation, and healthcare by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness.  

• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.  

• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.  

What We Have to Offer:  

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance  

• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe  

• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions  

• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun!  

Summary  

Applies comprehensive knowledge and experience to solve complex or system problems:  those typically solved solely by reference to maintenance manuals or similar documents. Maintains to the highest level all training equipment in the Training Center. Supervisor may review work for general compliance with accepted practices.  May also provide technical guidance and instruction to less proficient technicians.  As regulatory coordinator: provide direct coordination with regulatory authority (FAA) to ensure the simulator meets federal requirements. Oversee simulator Quality Management System, software compliance and safety management system.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

• Coordinate with regulatory authority to ensure simulator compliance. Manage waivers requests and communication with federal authority.   

• Oversee Quality Management System to meet FAA requirements.  

• Oversee Simulator Safety Management System (SQMS) in conjunction with reginal safety management systems.  

• Ensure all software/hardware upgrades meet local, regional, and federal compliance.  

• Perform corrective maintenance as required to maintain a minimum simulator availability of 98%.  

• Perform corrective maintenance as required to maintain the multi-media classrooms in full working order.  

• Perform scheduled preventive maintenance per the appropriate procedures for a particular training device.  

• Provide technical assistance in identifying, evaluating, and developing processes to improve reliability and maintainability of the training devices.  

• Perform operational daily tests (preflight) as required on the flight training devices.  

• Support Instructors and crews in operation of training devices and multi-media classrooms.  

• Assist in execution of FAA or equivalent certification tests.  

• Applies comprehensive technical knowledge to solve complex problems, those typically solved by properly interpreting maintenance manuals or similar documents.  

• Monitors the work of and provides technical guidance to less proficient technicians.    

• Capable of interpreting and working with computer systems utilizing various operating systems.    

• Maintains required documentation of maintenance activities.    

• Monitors and tracks the repair status of inoperative equipment and documents maintenance activities utilizing the logistics management data base system.   

• Diagnoses malfunctions of computers and associated equipment and performs operability/readiness tests and repair.