Salary Range: $92,575 – $157,550
Compensation for this role is determined by various factors, including a candidate's qualifications, education, skills, and experience, as well as prevailing market demands.
Benefits: FlightSafety International offers a comprehensive total rewards package, encompassing vacation, sick leave, a 401(k) matching program, comprehensive healthcare coverage, and a broad spectrum of additional benefits.
FlightSafety International stands as the world's premier professional aviation training company and a leading supplier of advanced flight simulators, visual systems, and displays to commercial, government, and military organizations worldwide. The company is dedicated to providing unparalleled training for pilots, technicians, and other aviation professionals representing 167 countries and independent territories. FlightSafety operates the world's largest fleet of state-of-the-art full-flight simulators and delivers award-winning maintenance training at its Learning Centers and training locations across the United States, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom.
The Flight Instructor is responsible for delivering exceptional ground and simulator flight instruction. This role ensures all training is conducted in strict accordance with relevant aviation regulations and FlightSafety International's rigorous training principles, preparing clients for successful qualification.
While performing the duties of this job, the Flight Instructor is regularly required to utilize hands for fingering, handling, or feeling objects, tools, or controls; to reach with hands and arms; and to communicate verbally. The role may occasionally require standing, walking, sitting, climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, and tasting or smelling.
Candidates must possess the physical range of body motion necessary to perform specific tasks, including: reaching, exerting pressure, and manipulating rudder and/or anti-torque controls with both feet; reaching and manipulating numerous controls within the simulator device from the instructor's chair; entering and exiting the simulator device via the provided ramp; moving between the instructor station, screen, and podium while instructing in a classroom setting; and exiting a malfunctioned simulator while the device is in a severely pitched attitude. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
The role regularly involves 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. Instructors may occasionally work in high, precarious places and under various outside weather conditions. There is also 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.