Head of Training and Checking

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Group Overview

Metrea is actively building its presence in Australia as part of a deliberate, globally coordinated expansion into the Asia-Pacific region. Our Asia-Pacific Market Group, headquartered in Brisbane with an additional office in Perth, is the enterprise's dedicated regional interface — connecting Australia's national security community with Metrea's full suite of capabilities across three core domains: Aerospace, Electromagnetic & Cyber, and Digital & Synthetic. Metrea is now bringing that same depth of mission expertise and proven operating model to Australia.
 
Underpinning these capabilities is a global network of Support Groups spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement — ensuring that as we grow in Australia, we do so with the full weight of an established global enterprise behind us.
 
Metrea's solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving — enabling our partners to scale capacity and achieve asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats. 

Position Summary

Reporting to the Head of Special Missions – Australia, the Head of Training and Checking (HOTC) is responsible for the development, recruitment, selection, qualification, standardisation, and continuous improvement of the organisation's flight crew training system in accordance with the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations (CASR), CASA Part 138 requirements, the Operations Manual, and the Safety Management System (SMS). The HOTC ensures that all flight crew members, aircrew, check and training personnel maintain the competency, qualifications, and operational proficiency necessary to safely conduct aerial work operations.

Reporting directly to the Accountable Manager and working closely with the Head of Flying Operations (HOFO), Head of Safety, and other operational leaders, the HOTC provides strategic and operational leadership for training standards, competency assessment, flight crew development, regulatory compliance, and operational readiness.

The HOTC is responsible for ensuring that all training, checking, recency, and proficiency programs are conducted to the highest professional standards, supporting a culture of safety, standardization, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across the organization.

What You'll Do

• Develop, implement, and maintain the organization's approved training and checking system ensuring ongoing compliance with CASA regulations, Part 138 requirements, operator authorisations, and internal procedures.
• Design and oversee initial, recurrent, conversion, upgrade, and remedial training programs tailored to the specific nature of the missions and operating areas
• Manage the conduct of flight crew proficiency checks, line checks, competency assessments, and operator proficiency requirements
• Monitor and evaluate training effectiveness through quality assurance, auditing, data analysis, and safety performance indicators
• Provide leadership, supervision, and standardization of aviation instructional personnel
• Coordinate with the Safety Manager for specific events and trend analysis to identify training requirements arising from incidents, audits, risk assessments, and safety investigations
• Ensure operational standardization across fleets, bases, and mission profiles
• Liaise with CASA and other regulatory stakeholders on matters relating to training, checking, competency, and operational approvals
• Promote a positive safety culture and professional development environment throughout the organization

What You Bring

• Extensive operational experience in aerial work, special mission, or commercial aviation operations
• Demonstrated experience in flight crew training, checking, competency management, and instructional leadership
• CASA ATPL(A)/CPL(A) and Multi-Engine Command Instrument Rating with appropriate aircraft type ratings, qualifications and experience to support Beechcraft King Air and Bombardier Jet operations
• Strong understanding of CASR Part 138, associated MOS requirements, SMS principles, and aviation safety regulations
• Practical experience applying aviation safety standards, Safety Management Systems (SMS), and operational risk management principles
• Strong leadership, organisational, strategic thinking, communication, stakeholder management and workforce development skills
• Current Australian Passport and ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Security Clearance
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Learning Management Systems (LMS), and training management software
• Ability to periodically deploy in support of operational training, standardisation, evaluations, and test activities

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Training syllabus development and execution particularly in the Special Mission environment
• Demonstrated experience in the establishment of Part-138 AWC, Part 121 AOCs or equivalent
• Previous experience in the HOTAC or similar role

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• Generous annual leave
• Annual incentive plan
• Paid parental leave
• Life and TPD Insurance
• Income Protection Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Novated Car Leasing

Work Authorisation / Security Clearance

Ability to obtain and maintain an AGSVA Security Clearance.

Inclusion Statement

We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and make hiring decisions based on capability, potential and alignment with our values. If you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please let us know.  

Our Firmware

At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.

Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.