Integrated Solution Leader - FFLIT

About This Role

All for delivering trust with every solution

Our team is at the forefront of CAE’s commitment to excellence, consistently striving to delight our customers. Here, you’ll manage key relationships, lead proactive solutions, and elevate our client experience. Working alongside a dynamic team with a shared purpose, you’ll make a tangible difference in every interaction. By joining us, you will not only advance your career but also play a crucial role in CAE’s mission to enhance safety and readiness on a global scale. Together, we can achieve remarkable outcomes and set new standards in customer service and client satisfaction.

Position Overview

The Training System Integrated Solution Leader (ISL) is part of a small team of senior training development experts responsible to design complete end-to-end solutions for training systems used by defense forces and para-military organizations around the world, leveraging CAE’s core simulation technologies along with best-in-class teaching methodologies and tools. The targeted end-user base includes the air, naval and land forces domains.

In close collaboration with CAE’s worldwide network of domain experts and industry partners, the ISL leads the definition of training solutions at the very early stages of customer needs definition, helping to shape and influence requirements for complete training programs that can include individual, team and collective training. The ISL is also responsible to ensure that the comprehensive integrated training solution delivers state-of-the-art and cost-effective training that is optimized to meet customer requirements throughout the entire life cycle of the training program. These solutions integrate the full-spectrum of the training continuum, from academic and simulation-based synthetic training up to a full live-virtual-constructive (LVC) environment that can support complex immersive mission rehearsal scenarios

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead the definition of fully integrated Training Solutions from the early stages of customer interactions (pre-RFP), through the Capture and Proposal phases, all the way to contract award

• Act as the main focal point and Design Authority on training solutions for all internal and external stakeholders, including customers and the end-user community

• Participate in training product R&D road map definitions to outline strategies to meet today’s and future customers training needs through best-in-class learning methodologies and tools, while reducing training development and delivery costs.

• Provide leadership to the Capture Teams on large training system integration (TSI) opportunities to develop various aspects of the proposed solution, including: Direct initial Training Task, Training Needs and Training Media Analysis and Training Curriculum Design in partnership with the technical leads, learning specialists, domain experts (SMEs) and customer authorities

• Leverage CAE technologies, standard products and Sub-Contractor capabilities in the design of a cohesive and optimal integrated training solution

• Leverage modern tools and multi-disciplinary teams to perform Training Solution design within the applicable training development processes

• Work with System Architects to ensure training requirements are well defined and are clearly derived into engineering and courseware requirements, with their associated objective verification and validation criteria

• In collaboration with Program Management, define a winning execution strategy for major opportunities including make-buy analysis, strategic partner selection and workshare definition, considering any in-country/offset requirements

• Prepare and deliver comprehensive Solution Reviews to all stakeholders to clearly communicate the winning strategies and end-to-end technical, programmatic and commercial solutions

• Facilitate, consolidate and validate the cost estimating and risk analysis from the different stakeholders

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

• Interface with customers and end-users to present and review training solutions, primarily during the pre-contract award business capture phases

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years of related experience in industry and/or military service, with 10 years focused on the development and/or delivery of training programs in an operational and/or maintenance capacity for the defense sector

• Canadian Forces aircrew experience mandatory 

• Knowledge of Canadian Forces defense procurement process and experience is considered an asset.

• Relevant experience leading large training development, training integration or engineering projects

• Knowledgeable of training development processes desirable

• • • System Approach to Training (SAT & DSAT) and Instructional Systems Design

    • Science of learning, adult learning, and e-learning

Knowledge of the following is highly desirable:

• RCAF weapons ranges such as the Cold Lake Air Weapons Ranges, Bagotville Air weapons Range and Goose Bay Air Weapons Range including operation and security.

• EW Threats and Target Replication.

• Military Operationalization training and Air-to-Air Range Infrastructure.

• Fighter aircraft operations including F-35 knowledge.

• Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation and other podded systems.

• Excellent oral & written communication and presentation skills

• Good ability to develop capture strategies and proposal storyboards, leveraging winning themes and discriminators

• Good business acumen and political savvy

• Knowledge of systems engineering development processes

• Experience in large project management is considered an asset

• Knowledge of CAE's training solutions approach and of CAE’s modeling and simulation systems is considered an asset

• Availability to travel internationally up to 10% of the time

• Must be able to obtain and retain Canadian and NATO Secret Security Clearances

CAE offers: 

• An environment where your initiatives will be recognized and valued  

• The opportunity to work on a variety of projects on a multidisciplinary team  

• The possibility to work from home occasionally  

• Flexible schedules  

• Attractive employee benefits 

About CAE

At CAE, we equip people in critical roles with the expertise and solutions to create a safer world. As a technology company, we digitalize the physical world, deploying software-based simulation training and critical operations support solutions. Above all else, we empower pilots, cabin crew, airlines, and defence and security forces to perform at their best every day and when the stakes are the highest. Around the globe, we’re everywhere customers need us to be with more than 13,000 employees in approximately 250 sites and training locations in over 40 countries. CAE represents more than 75 years of industry firsts—the highest-fidelity flight and mission simulators as well as training programs powered by digital technologies. We embed sustainability in everything we do. Today and tomorrow, we’ll make sure our customers are ready for the moments that matter.

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CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.

CAE is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender indentity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, veteran status, age, or other characteristics protected by local laws.

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