Proposal Chief Engineer

The Proposal Chief Engineer is part of a small team of senior training development experts responsible for the design of complete endtoend solutions for training systems used by defense forces and military organizations around the world. This design leverages CAEs core simulation technologies along with bestinclass learning methodologies and tools.

The ISL ensures that the comprehensive integrated training solution delivers stateoftheart costeffective training that is optimized to meet customer requirements throughout the entire life cycle of the training program. These solutions integrate the fullspectrum of the training continuum from academic and simulationbased synthetic training up to a full livevirtualconstructive (LVC) environment that can support complex immersive mission rehearsal scenarios.

Leads efforts to analyze design and evaluate program training deliverables in accordance with Department of Defense (DoD) MILHDBK 29612 DoD Guidance and applicable U.S. Naval Education and Training (NAVEDTRA) directives. Analyzes and designs integrated training solutions for Combat Aviation and Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) programs with Subject Matter Expert (SME) input based on customer stated and derived training requirements. Develops Job/Duty Task Lists Objective Hierarchies Media Analyses and Syllabi in collaboration with SMEs for U.S.

Department of Defense customers. Validates training task traceability between program requirements tasks and associated learning objectives and syllabus training events. Conducts ongoing evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of active training systems with targeted recommendations to continually improve program performance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

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

• Analyze and design training system requirements as well as evaluate training system effectiveness for new and existing training programs

• Analyze mission job tasks training tasks learning objective and objective hierarchy training method and media and course syllabi requirements as well as gaps or inefficiencies within existing training systems

• Develop/update Master Tasks Lists (MTLs) Master Training Tasks Lists (MTTL) learning objective hierarchies training method and media reports and course syllabi

• Develop and deliver formal Training System Requirements Analysis (TSRA) Frontend Analysis (FEA) Training Needs Analysis (TNA) and training gap analysis reports to customers

• Develop and review proposal and program learning materials including but not limited to: selection of appropriate instructional methods development of instructionally sound course objectives design and development of realistic scenarios and case studies and design and development of valid assessment tools

• Attend ISLrelated customer interface meetings and generate any necessary materials or slides for required presentations

• Coordinate with management to prioritize business and program needs

• Leverage company technologies standard products and subcontractor capabilities in the design of a cohesive and optimal integrated training solution that align with program requirements

• Identify potential execution and deliverable issues concerns and risks associated to the overall training solution design deployment and delivery phases

• Interface with customers and endusers to present and review integrated training solutions

• Identify training data source inputs needed to evaluate training system effectiveness

• Ensure all requirements in proposal submissions are compliant with customer specifications

• Ensure traceability is maintained on all baseline and changed documentation on active training programs starting with contract startup and continuing to the end of the contract

• Develop and maintain data visualization using application like Cameo DOMO Power BI and Microsoft Azure

• Identify analyze and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets

• Generate technical reports describing prevailing trends within and between training programs with targeted recommendations to continually improve training

• Accomplish work in accordance with company policies processes procedures and work instructions

• Develop prioritize and meet deliverable budget schedule and scope milestones

• Conducts peer reviews to verify production in accordance with established quality standards

• Employ industry standard software and format technical documents to a specific standard

• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelors in Aerospace Engineering Learning Sciences or Education/Instructional Systems Design or related field and 8 years of experience in field or a combination of education and related experience.

• Minimum of (8) eight years professional experience in systematic approaches to aircrew training analysis design development and/or operationalization for U.S. Navy

• Experience conducting data analytics measuring training system effectiveness

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite of applications including developing macros and applying formulae for Microsoft Excel

• Ability to quickly learn understand and breakdown complex hightech systems

• Ability to prioritize work requirements with minimal supervision

• Resultsoriented approach to performing work

• Strong organizational skills and business acumen

• Must be a U.S. citizen

Communication Skills

• Must demonstrate excellent written communication (including technical writing) verbal communication (including presentations) and interpersonal skills.

• Must demonstrate excellent decisionmaking skills

Mathematical Skills

• Must be able to interpret and analyze data and statistics and to apply concepts of basic calculations

Reasoning Ability

• Must be able to define problems collect data establish facts and draw valid conclusions

• Must be able to identify and differentiate between Type I and Type II statistical errors

• Must demonstrate the ability to interpret complex customer requirements and attitudes from verbal nonverbal and written communication

• Must demonstrate the ability to apply principles of logical scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems

• Must be able to calculate figures and amounts identify positive/negative trends and correlation coefficients determine statistical significance and to model and interpret graphical data sets

Preferred Skills

• Prior naval aviation experience highly desired

• Prior JDTA FEA and/or TSRA experience highly desired

• Prior experience with Cameo ModelBased Systems Engineering (MBSE) software desired

• Domo or Power BI data visualization software desired

• Prior relational database experience desired

• Prior experience developing web enabled lesson content desired

• Prior experience with SQL Python or R programming languages desired

Security Responsibilities

Must complywith all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures. Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials in any form. Shall not divulge any information or afford access to other employees not having a needtoknow. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval. All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.

• Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers phones photocopiers filing cabinets and fax machines.

• This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers phones photocopiers filing cabinets and fax machines.

• Must be able to access actual aircraft environment or synthetic training devices on occasion.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Must have the ability to travel (up to 50 percent) and work overtime as necessary.

• Must be able to sit and operate a personal computer for long periods

OTHER DUTIES

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

CAE USA Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any protected characteristic including disability and protected veteran status as defined under federal state or local laws.

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