Employer: ITPS Canada Ltd.
Position: Flight Test Pilot & Instructor
Terms of Employment: Full-time / Permanent
Location: London, Ontario
Employment Address: 2410 Blair Blvd, London, Ontario N5V 3Z9
Hours of Work: 40 hours/week
Language: English
Benefits:
- Eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or salary increases in accordance with company policy.
- Company contributory medical top-up scheme and five weeks paid vacation annually.
- Eligible for Employment Assistance Program
- Eligible for basic life insurance
- Eligible for extended healthcare, prescription drugs, paramedical, vision and dental insurance
- Eligible for travel insurance
Salary: $142,000 - $175,000 CAD per annum
Contact: Contact: Please send resumes to [email protected] and include “Flight Test Pilot & Instructor” in the email subject line
About Us:
ITPS has been operating in London, Ontario since 2001. Our company is one of nine internationally recognized and highly specialized Test Pilot Schools in the world. ITPS specializes in flight test training and consulting services. We offer a range of training courses for Test Pilots and Flight Test Engineers. ITPS has an established track record of providing cost-effective flight test training to air forces and civilian industries around the world. This training reflects lessons learned during many years of flight-testing airplanes and helicopters for manufacturers, as well as military and civilian institutions. Our clients include air forces and aeronautical institutions from around the world. For more on ITPS, our products and services, refer to our company's website at www.itpscanada.com.
Duties:
- Acting as Course Manager and actively managing and co-ordinating the flying program and generally ensuring the successful execution, schedule compliance, student welfare and satisfaction for courses assigned by Head of Training from time to time;
- Ensuring that students are correctly briefed and prepared for flying exercises;
- Ensuring that risk assessments are completed;
- Authorizing flights within his or her powers of authorization;
- Ensuring that the students receive proper flight exercise demonstrations, and that students have the opportunity to practice flight test techniques and data-gathering techniques;
- Ensuring that course flights are properly debriefed and that a Sortie Report Assessment is generated to monitor student progress;
- Ensuring that students prepare and submit reports for exercises managed by the FTI as required by the syllabus and acting as first marker of such reports;
- Monitoring the progress of individual students and briefing this on a regular basis to the appropriate Chief Flight Instructor (CFI) and Head of Training (HoT);
- In the case of concerns about student progress, reporting to the CFI or HoT as soon as possible;
- Performing duties as an experimental test pilot on company projects as required from time to time in Canada and occasionally abroad;
- Any other special projects that he/she is qualified to perform and requested by his/her manager which may require travel abroad; and
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
- Completion of secondary school and graduation from a certified flying or aviation school are required.
- An Air Transport Pilot License (ATPL) or Commercial Pilot's License (CPL)
- Transport Canada ratings and endorsements to provide instruction on different types of aircraft are required:
- Instrument Rating (IR) Group 1 (all aeroplanes) is preferred and Flight Test Instructor (FTI)/ Type Rating Instructor (FTI) or equivalent International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) license and recognized TP qualification qualifications to qualify as a FTI.
- A FTI may hold a Group 2 (multi-engine centre line thrust and single engine) only type rating: in these circumstances, instruction shall be limited to Category 2 courses only.
- A FTI who holds a Transport Canada or validated ICAO license AND a recognized TP qualification qualification AND has undergone ITPS standardization may give instruction in flight test techniques to ITPS Students who are not seeking an EASA TP rating; in this case FCL.900 approval is not required.
- Previous experience as a Test Pilot
- 5+ years of experience in the military and/or civil industry.
- Experience in spin testing is an asset.
- Experience as an instructor at a test pilot school is an asset.
- Meet the requirements of EASA ATP with CAT-1 Rating and be eligible for a Flight Test Instructor rating.
* Training Bonds are available to employees who require some upgrading to achieve type ratings we require