Contract AW189 Simulator Test Pilot [redacted] is a leader in aviation simulation and training, preparing our customers with true-to-life experiences. Driven by innovation and safety, our products help pilots and maintainers achieve daily success in aviation. We are proudly backed by our parent company, Textron, Inc. (NYSE: TXT), a Fortune 500 company known worldwide for aviation and defense brands including Bell Helicopter, Cessna, Beechcraft, Hawker and Textron Systems. Why launch a career with the TRU Family? Transform the industry standard: We are an innovative team supporting products ranging from aircraft maintenance training devices to full motion flight simulators, for both commercial and defense customers. We take the next step to provide hands-on pilot and maintenance training to ensure flight readiness. Driven by people: We empower people to make the impossible, possible. By joining our diverse team, you will experience new challenges and opportunities to best fit your career goals. Global growing company: With locations spanning across the U.S, we are also rapidly expanding internationally to continue to support our global customers. TRU is seeking a Contract AW189 Simulator Test Pilot to support engineering during the development and test phases of an AgustaWestland AW189 full-flight simulator. Candidate will be considered a subject matter expert on the real aircraft, providing subjective and objective feedback to Engineering teams on the technical details to hardware, aircraft systems, avionics, and flight performance of the simulated device. Duties will include providing thorough, subjective feedback towards a certifiable flight dynamics model and control loading model, inputs to technical gaps within aircraft systems and avionics, and verification of solutions. Deliverables, while working alongside TRU Engineering, will be in-plant and offsite consulting with technical inputs via teleconferencing, editing of a customized package of quality support documentation to be used in final acceptance testing of the device, and onsite testing of the simulator against the test documentation. Candidate must be available to start in early 2019, have a willingness to participate in satellite teleconferencing and be able to travel to site for face to face consultation and device testing. Job will require onsite work for up to two-week durations at TRUs Tampa, Florida office, with additional pre-planned occurrences. This role is needed intermittently through 2019, with opportunity for extension. Job Responsibilities: Pilot must have access to, or be able to access, objective evidence (technical documentation, images, video, etc) of related feedback as needed in the process. Pilot must be able to demonstrate familiarity and details to user interface (hardware and systems) with some or all of the following configurations and options: Standard Configuration and Layout of the market Cockpit including system operation and functionality (such as engines, hydraulics, electrical, radios, communications, etc.) Rockwell Collins Helisure Avionics Display and Radio Equip. settings and detailed Rockwell Collins HF-9000 radio equipment Flight Management System (FMS) Air Conditioning Systems Forward and Auxiliary Fuel Tanks Category A Operations Offshore Operations Search and Rescue Automatic Search Mode Operations VFR and IFR, Night Vision Goggle (NVG) Operations MAX VIZ EVS-1500 IR Camera Operation Engine Mode Training Operations Ditching Configuration Cargo Hook External Rescue Hoist Search Light Trakkabeam Limited Ice Protection Systems Cobham Tetra Controls and DU Weather Radar RTA-4112 (WxR) and SAR Radar Traffic Advisory System II (TCAS II) HTAWS Emergency Floatation System Crash Position Indicator with Deployable ELT Digital Map System Synthetic Vision System Heated Windshield System Extended Range and Weights Qualifications Qualifications: Candidate must have flight experience on AW189, maintenance experience, and/or aircraft access is a plus. Description of Pilot Flight hours and type ratings must be provided in application. Basic Work Processing, technical reading and comprehension skills to support discussions and editing of documentation such as Acceptance Test Procedures (ATPs) Very good communication skills; written and verbal. Fluent in English US work authorization required