Simulator Maintenance Engineer in Crawley

Job Location: UK – Crawley – West Sussex

Hours: Full-time shift work (2 Days, 2 Nights, 4 off, shift pattern)

About Acron Aviation

Acron Aviation is a global leader in commercial aviation solutions, providing advanced avionics, flight data intelligence, pilot training, and simulation technologies to aircraft operators and airframe manufacturers worldwide. The company combines decades of aviation heritage with modern innovation to enhance flight safety, operational efficiency, and training excellence.

Why join Acron Aviation?

Acron Aviation is defined by a customer-first mindset, a strong culture of innovation, and a mission to create safer, smarter skies. As the company continues to modernize aviation technology and training, employees have the opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking work across avionics engineering, data analytics, simulation technology, and operational training.

Benefits

• Acron Aviation Incentive plan (Profit sharing)
• Flexible, condensed or reduced working hours considered and hybrid working where possible
• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support

About The Role

You will be a team member responsible for the maintenance and support of a range of Full Flight Simulators and lower-level training devices (FSTD’s). Act as a point of contact to the user/customer community for both technical and logistics issues. Undertake all duties as a member of the maintenance team providing a turnkey service. Perform any tasks related to maintaining the simulator qualification standard.

Responsibilities

• Conducting scheduled preventative and corrective maintenance.
• Troubleshooting and resolving electrical, software, and hardware faults to minimize downtime.
• Installing software and hardware updates, including executing and documenting all required post-update testing.
• Maintaining accurate maintenance, defect and configuration records.
• Supporting annual simulator re-certification activities and recurrent testing.
• Preparing systems for training operations, including pre-flight checks and readiness assessments.
• Managing tooling and spare parts inventory.
• Coordinating outsourced repairs to ensure continuous operational capability.
• Mentoring less-experienced team members to support capability development within the engineering team.
• Operating ("flying") simulators for system tests, customer demonstrations, and approved evaluation sessions.
• Providing comprehensive advice and assistance across all aspects of simulator maintenance to ensure maximum training availability.
• Liaising with simulator OEMs and pilot SMEs to support technical investigations and resolve outstanding issues.
• Working closely with in-house engineering, and test teams to progress defect investigations and contribute to product improvements.
• Implementing and validating software changes, including building and testing new software loads.
• Delivering safety briefings to new instructors to ensure safe and effective use of the training environment.
• Engaging regularly with customers, Training Services leadership teams, and industry regulators to support operations and uphold compliance standards.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong technical understanding of electrical, mechanical, and computer systems.
• Ability to read technical drawings, schematics, and engineering documentation.
• Proficiency in diagnostic troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Familiarity with aircraft systems, avionics concepts, and flight controls.
• Comfortable working in a highly regulated environment with strong emphasis on safety and precision.
• Effective communication skills for interaction with pilots, instructors, and engineering teams.
• Ability to work shifts in a 24/7 training operation.

Education / Qualifications

• Educated to a minimum BTEC/HTEC, HND/HNC level or equivalent relevant qualification
• Minimum of 5 years’ aviation industry or equivalent experience

What else could be helpful to be successful in this role

• Flight or aircraft maintenance experience (or equivalent technical industries)
• Previous FSTD experience (or equivalent automation industries)
• Customer service experience
• A good standard of IT skills

Please note: All candidates who wish to be considered for this vacancy must have the right to work in the UK.