Senior Training and Instructional Designer (Remote) job

Collins Aerospace Avionics Engineering Tools (AET) organization is seeking a Senior Training and Instructional Designer with a passion for providing service to others and satisfying customers through the delivery of improvements to the engineering ecosystem that provide compelling gains to the consistency, efficiency, and productivity of product development efforts across the enterprise. This position is performed with minimal supervision and requires a candidate with highly-effective communication skills, a strong bias for action, and the ability to prioritize and advance multiple objectives.

AET is at the forefront of providing state-of-the-art solutions that dramatically increases Collins Aerospace Avionics Engineering productivity and effectivity. Our recognized success has been based on the friendly, informal, and highly-cooperative team environment we’ve put in place, as well as across-the-board depth of talent. Employing some of the most talented, dedicated people on the planet is not by chance. People from all over the globe choose Collins Aerospace as the place to build a rewarding career, while helping create and deliver communications, integration, and engineering solutions that our global customers demand so that our world keeps moving and stays connected. It’s an exciting time to become a part of our team. Join us and discover how high your career can soar at Collins Aerospace.

This is a remote position that will require some travel.

Role Summary

The Senior Training and Instructional Designer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining curricula and programs used to train employees in a variety of functions by conducting needs assessments, selection of relevant instructional approach, and design of instructional content. The scope of responsibilities also includes curation of materials in consultation with subject matter experts (SME) for standard to moderately complex software applications used by our engineering community to develop aerospace product deliverables.

Responsibilities include:

• Establish learning plans for areas such as DevSecOps, software config management, and other internally developed applications and services
• Curate content and teach experts how to generate and share content by collaborating with peers, and SMEs to design and build learning initiatives
• Facilitate, deliver, and provide training to support learning projects including “train the trainer”
• Design and develop in-person and eLearning courses, instructor-led training programs, and video learning
• Update training plans, course maintenance, and process documentation for existing curricula
• Manage status of projects, milestones, and tasks in the team project tracking tool
• Ensure instructional programs are effectively implemented, evaluates content, and adjusts as required
• Maintain a facilitative approach, listening for both passive and active feedback and iterating based on that feedback for continuous improvement

Qualifications/Experience Needed:

• U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, refugee or asylee) or eligible to obtain necessary export authorizations required. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-120/subpart-C/section-120.62
• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience
• A design mindset that can produce a clean-sheet product
• Experience engaging with a technical audience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in learning technologies, design, and facilitating in a virtual environment
• Experience working with a Learning Management Systems
• Capability working in Microsoft O365 including SharePoint
• Ability to translate solutions into viable action plans and content
• Understanding of Individual and Organizational Change Management
• Ability to travel up to 10% within the United States

Preferred qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in software product training
• Proficient with eLearning development software such as Storyline 360 or Camtasia
• Experience working within an ALM tool suite such as Confluence and JIRA
• Knowledge of the software development life cycle, DevOps, and cloud native technologies
• Curriculum development experience using a well-defined instructional design system (e.g. ADDIE or SAM)

Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

Our Avionics team advances flight deck solutions, airborne communications, vision systems, sensors and fire protection for commercial and military customers around the world. That means we’re helping people reach their destination safely and keeping pilots, passengers, flight crews, airlines, airports and military personnel connected and informed. And we’re providing industry-leading fire protection and safety systems that our customers can count on when it matters most. Are you ready to learn from the most knowledgeable experts in the industry, develop the technologies of tomorrow and reach new heights in your career? Join our Avionics team today.

Collins Aerospace Diversity & Inclusion Statement:

Diversity drives innovation; inclusion drives success. We believe a multitude of approaches and ideas enable us to deliver the best results for our workforce, workplace, and customers. We are committed to fostering a culture where all employees can share their passions and ideas so we can tackle the toughest challenges in our industry and pave new paths to limitless possibility.

WE ARE REDEFINING AEROSPACE.

• Please consider the following role type definitions as you apply for this role.

Remote: Employees who are working in Remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home). An employee may be expected to travel to the site location as needed.

Regardless of your role type, collaboration and innovation are critical to our business and all employees will have access to digital tools so they can work with colleagues around the world – and access to Collins sites when their work requires in-person meetings.

Some of our competitive benefits package includes:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy: pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
• Adoption Assistance
• Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
• And more!

Nothing matters more to Collins Aerospace than our strong ethical and safety commitments. As such, all U.S. positions require a background check, which may include a drug screen.

Note:

• Background check and drug screen required (every external new hire in the U.S.)
• Drug Screen only performed on re-hires who have been gone for more than 1 year

At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form – with our customers and with each other – propel us all higher, again and again.

Apply now and be part of the team that’s redefining aerospace, every day.

The salary range for this role is 75,000 USD – 161,000 USD; however, Raytheon Technologies considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills. Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.