I have not previously come across a requirement for the SFE to have completed an OPC for a specific company. Some SFEs would spend all their time sitting OPC's and never doing any training / testing if that was a requirement.
However, have a think about what you are doing.
If you are going to get SFE's at "a well known simulator providor" to conduct your company's OPC's then they need to know your SOPs etc and you will need to satisfy yourself that they do.
The sim provider will have told you how they maintain standards among their staff.
The biggest complaint about sim training / testing when outsourced is that the SFI / SFE does not know the specific company SOP. This usually means that while the LPC elements will be conducted to the required standard, often the OPC elements are not so well covered due to a lack of knowledge of specific company SOPs. This gets worse when you have very specific procedures for places like say Innsbruck. Do you really want your crews being trained by someone whp has seen your escape procedure for the first time just before they fire up the sim?
What you need to do is have something appropriate in your part D and clear agreement on what SOPs etc will be taught and examined in the sim.
Sit back and wait for reports from several line trainers telling you that the sdim provider is not pushing the required SOPs in the sim and make sure you get a report from the candidates on every course so that you have evidence of what is being done.
It is a royal pain in the proverbials and if you ever get them doing everything exactly as per your SOPs then you will have done something that very few operators have acheived without using their own SFI / SFEs.
If I have missed something and anyone can give a reference to the SFI/SFE needing to have a company specific OPC every 6 months then I would love to have it and how they apply it to Authority examiners.
