FlightSafety International stands as the world’s premier professional aviation training company and a leading supplier of flight simulators, visual systems, and displays to commercial, government, and military organizations globally. The company is dedicated to providing exceptional training for pilots, technicians, and other aviation professionals hailing from 167 countries and independent territories. FlightSafety proudly operates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and delivers award-winning maintenance training across its esteemed Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom.
As a Flight Instructor, the successful candidate will be responsible for delivering exceptional ground and simulator flight instruction. This role demands strict adherence to all applicable aviation regulations and the rigorous FlightSafety Training principles, ensuring the highest standards of safety and educational quality.
While no specific educational degree is mandated for this position, candidates must meet the experience and certification requirements outlined below.
The Flight Instructor position necessitates a degree of physical agility, including regular use of hands for manipulating controls, reaching with hands and arms, and utilizing fine motor skills. Physical demands encompass the ability to stand, walk, sit, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and occasionally taste or smell. Specifically, the instructor must possess the physical range of motion to manipulate rudder controls and/or anti-torque with both feet, reach and manipulate numerous controls within the simulator device from the instructor’s chair, and safely enter and exit the simulator device via the provided ramp. The ability to move efficiently between the instructor station, screen, and podium while instructing in the classroom, and to exit a malfunctioned simulator while the device is in a severely pitched attitude, is essential. Comprehensive vision abilities, including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus, are required. Candidates must be capable of regularly lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds, and frequently lifting and/or moving up to 25 pounds.
The work environment frequently involves proximity to moving mechanical parts. Occasional exposure may occur in high, precarious places, outside weather conditions, wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme cold, extreme heat, risk of electrical shock, risk of radiation, and vibration.
FlightSafety is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disabled. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.