Instructional Designer

Flight Safety International is the world’s premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. Flight Safety operates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full‑flight simulators and award‑winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.

The Pilot Instructional Designer () (Pilot and Mx) is responsible for providing instructional design strategies and templates related to designing, developing, implementing and evaluating both the Pilot curriculum and the Maintenance (Mx) curriculum, to ensure Learning Center personnel are provided with the optimal courseware to meet the needs of Flight Safety International Customers, by performing the following duties:

• Define, model and maintain enterprise‑wide instructional templates, strategies and philosophy of instructional design as it relates to curriculum/learning products.
• Define requirements for Pilot curriculum/learning products materials/programs/templates, including appearance requirements, behavioural objectives, testing and teaching strategies, test items, evaluation plans, and course design products that outline course content (i.e., syllabi, lesson specifications, course maps, training day flows, course footprints, training device specification reports, etc.).
• Design, develop and apply instructional strategies, templates, learning theories, and human factors to product designs based on quality instructional design techniques for use by Center Production Team, Program Revisions Manager(s) (PRMs), and other related resources.
• Perform usability testing and create new or revise existing CWS standards for courseware design and development, as required.
• Research and maintain the current regulatory requirements, OEM requirements, and Customer requirements, as well as Flight Safety International standards to ensure that curriculum/learning products meets the minimum standard of excellence, consistency and instructional integrity.
• Adhere to established specifications and product development standards for instructional products as approved by Flight Safety International.
• Research developments in instructional design, specifically in areas related to learning technologies, software applications, media, presentation methodologies and Internet technologies; report findings to Development Support Manager, as appropriate.

• Consult and work with other Courseware Support (CWS) teammates, the Learning Center Production Team, PRM(s), vendors, designers and developers, to create prototypes of instructional strategies and features within and across all products.
• Work with appropriate Product Development Support teammates to identify media‑related objectives and functionality requirements, as well as to identify the materials and resources necessary to design/build systems that meet program requirements.
• Work with the Creative Director Supervisor to define appearance requirements for templates, product designs and product prototypes.
• Collaborate with Flight Safety International Training Operations when creating or revising current standards for Instructional Systems Design (ISD) strategies, product templates and product prototypes, as required.
• Consult with Training Operations, and/or other Flight Safety International teammates, to ensure all designs meet regulatory standards and Flight Safety International requirements.
• Interact with the Research and Development (R and
  
  D) Functional Group to maintain knowledge of current instructional strategies, learning theories and human factors used in the development of instructional templates and products.
• Interact with Learning Center teammates regarding the use of instructional design strategies and templates, as necessary.

• Maintain Flight Safety International's commitment to customer satisfaction…