Vacancies

This is an exciting entry role into the discipline of Commercial and Contract Management. As part of the commercial team you will be working to understand how we do business and be given responsibility for monitoring and reporting Ascent and supplier performance ensuring delivery of key products, maintaining stakeholder relations, contract administration and information management, ensuring compliance against contract obligations.

The Training Performance Manager acts as a primary point of contact between the training delivery sites and the training support hub and also between Ascent and Authority stakeholders on matters of training performance and delivery.

Ascent is currently recruiting for Qualified Observer Instructors for its Rear Crew Stage 1 training facility at RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall, UK. The training course is for ab-initio Royal Navy Observers immediately prior to entry to an operational conversion unit onto front-line aircraft type.

The purpose of this role is to provide comprehensive HR & recruitment administration to the Ascent HR department to ensure the overall team can provide an effective and efficient HR service to the business.

The Qualified Flying Instructor within the Elementary Flying Training Programme will play a key role in the service delvery of this programme at RAF Cranwell and RAF Barkston Heath, as part of the overall UKMTS Programme.

King Air 350ER Pilot for Ascent’s Rear Crew training facility at RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall, UK. The facility is for rear crew training and assessment prior to further training courses or entry to Operational Conversion Units. The primary purpose of the unit is to teach navigation techniques and airmanship behaviours, including maritime tactical sortie profiles, on the Beechcraft King Air 350 and a tactical mission training simulator.

As an SDSR Commercial Officer you will be instrumental in the delivery of commercial and legal services in a timely manner to support the SDSR programme. Specifically this will involve the procurement and implementation of Fixed Wing and Rotary Wing contract amendments, and protection of Ascent’s interests by ensuring that legal and contractual obligations are met, whilst also enforcing legal and contractual rights.

This role is responsible for establishing a credible and deliverable RPAS Sensor Operator Training System Design that meets the customer requirements and for the instructional design and development effort required to produce the UKMFTS RPAS Sensor Operator curriculum.

Reporting to the Deputy MD, this position develops and maintains accurate programme schedules with programme and project managers across the business including facilitating a collaborative process with our customer across the UKMFTS Ascent programmes.

This position is to implement suitable systems and processes to manage and mitigate current company business risks, to manage, mitigate and de-risk programme risk inherent in current and future programmes.

To deliver airborne and synthetic Rotary Wing Training as part of the UKMTS program. Responsible for the delivery of live and synthetic instruction to future helicopter pilots

To deliver ground based Phase IV Fast Jet Training as part of the UKMTS program. Responsible for the delivery of classroom and simulator instruction to future fast jet pilots.