# F/A-18 Senior Instructor Pilot

**Company**: Boeing Aerospace Operations
**Location**: USA - NAS JRB New Orleans, LA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $239,700- $324,300
**Category**: Defence & Intelligence
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

The Boeing Company is seeking a F/A-18 Senior Instructor Pilot to support Boeing Global Services in Ahmed Al-Jaber Air Base, Kuwait. This role will provide Contractor Instructor Services to the Kuwait Air Force (KAF) as part of a Foreign Military Sales contract.

The Primary training site is at Ahmed Al-Jaber Air Base, Kuwait, while travel may be required to include, but not limited to, attending NATOPS and safety-related conferences on behalf of the customer.

This is a Long-Term Assignment to Ahmed Al-Jaber Air Base, Kuwait for up to 5 years. Relocation/assignment benefits to the international location will be provided.

**Position Responsibilities:**

- Provides flight, simulator, and academic instruction to KAF pilots in customer-owned F/A-18E/F Block III Super Hornet aircraft

- Conducts familiarization, qualification, upgrade, standardization, flight, and ground instruction in support of customer courses ranging from CAT I to advanced training, including air-to-air gunnery, air-to-ground strike, day/night in-flight refueling, and day/night low-level training

- Maintains aircrew training materials and courseware

- Assists the customer operations and training staff in development of aircrew instructional philosophy, syllabi, evaluation criteria, and approaches for standardizing training materials, delivery, and training standards

- Performs as Subject Matter Expert for courseware maintenance support

- Assists the KAF in building aircraft, employment, and weapons briefings to support KAF continuation training

- Establishes qualifications and training standards

- Job requires completion of appropriate KAF F/A-18 Block III differences training or transition in the aircraft

- Act as a liaison between Boeing and Boeing subcontractor personnel on administrative matters related to tasks ranging from residency and immigration actions to Base access

- Interface with the end customer (Kuwait Air Force) on pilot and ground training specialist scheduling and availability and communicate time-sensitive information across the in-country F-18 Contractor Instructional Services team

- Provide the site manager with sortie and simulator completion metrics and status of qualifications on a monthly basis

**Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):**

- 750 hours+ Pilot-In-Command and/or Instructor Pilot time in the F/A-18 aircraft or equivalent fighter aircraft

- Current F/A-18 NATOPS or equivalent qualification

- Compliance with CNAF-M 3710.7 standards, including required recurrent swim physiology and hypoxia training, and meeting F/A-18 anthropometric requirements for ejection-seat aircraft

**Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):**

- A combination of F/A-18C and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet experience or equivalent

- F/A-18 Fleet Replacement Squadron Instructor Pilot or equivalent

- F/A-18 Division Lead or equivalent

- Top Gun Weapons and Tactics Instructor or equivalent

- Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System Instructor

**Pay & Benefits:**

- Summary Pay Range: $239,700- $324,300

- At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

- The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

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## Skills

### Required
- F/A-18
- NATOPS
- CNAF-M 3710.7
- Pilot-In-Command
- Instructor Pilot

### Nice to have
- F/A-18C
- F/A-18E/F
- Fleet Replacement Squadron Instructor Pilot
- Division Lead
- Top Gun Weapons and Tactics Instructor

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