FlightSafety International stands as the world’s premier professional aviation training company, recognized globally as a leading supplier of advanced flight simulators, visual systems, and displays to commercial, government, and military organizations. The company is dedicated to providing unparalleled training for pilots, technicians, and other aviation professionals 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 at its state-of-the-art Learning Centers and training locations across the United States, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom.
The Flight Instructor is a pivotal role responsible for delivering exceptional ground and simulator flight instruction. This position ensures that all training is conducted in strict accordance with applicable aviation regulations and FlightSafety’s rigorous training principles, thereby preparing aviation professionals to achieve their full potential.
Formal educational background is not specifically required for this role.
The role requires the employee to regularly use hands for manipulating objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and communicate effectively through speech or hearing. The employee may also be required to stand, walk, sit, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and discern taste or smell.
Essential physical capabilities include possessing the range of body motion to reach, exert pressure, and manipulate rudder controls and/or anti-torque with both feet. The instructor must be able to reach and manipulate numerous controls within the simulator device from the instructor’s chair, and safely enter and exit the simulator via the provided ramp. Movement between the instructor station, screen, and podium while instructing in the classroom is also necessary. The ability to exit a malfunctioned simulator while the device is in a severely pitched attitude is required. Specific vision abilities critical for this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
The employee must regularly lift and/or move items weighing up to 10 pounds, and frequently lift and/or move items weighing up to 25 pounds.
The work environment frequently involves proximity to moving mechanical parts. Employees may occasionally work in high, precarious places and in outside weather conditions. Furthermore, there is occasional exposure to 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 International 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.