Integrated Solution Lead

All for a safer, smarter world.

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 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 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 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 todays 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 Skills & 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 experience highly desirable

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

Knowledgeable of training development processes

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

Science of learning, adult learning, e-learning, etc.

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 5% 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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