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SCSTC OS "A" School Technical Instructor

GDIT Great Lakes, IL On-site senior full-time

Salary

$63,312 - $85,658 per year

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Description

As a Training Specialist for GDIT, you will make meaningful contributions that fuel critical outcomes for some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects. Your role as a SCSTC OS "A" School Technical Instructor involves training Operations Specialists who advise on shipboard warfare operations and navigation.

Responsibilities include:

  • Identifying basic watch standing, merchant and military ships
  • Operating radar, compass, and NAVTEX equipment
  • Computing bearing formulas and defining rules of the road for ship navigation
  • Plotting current position on a nautical chart and preparing the plot of a ship's intended movement
  • Applying set and drift calculations and operating GPS equipment
  • Maintaining ship logs and recalling inland and international rules of the road
  • Utilizing traffic separation schemes and identifying charts and symbols

Requirements:

  • Three years of instructor experience
  • NEC 9502/805A
  • Security clearance level: Secret
  • US citizenship required

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master Training Specialist
  • NAVEDTRA 131/132 curriculum development

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
  • 401K with company match
  • Competitive pay and paid time off
  • Full flex work weeks where possible
  • Paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave
  • Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance

Skills

Required

  • Navigation
  • Training Needs Assessment
  • Training Techniques

Nice to have

  • Master Training Specialist
  • NAVEDTRA 131/132 curriculum development
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