About This Role
The Assistant Chief Flight Instructor provides safe, effective, and efficient FAA Part 141 flight-instruction operations for Spartan College's IAA Flight campus in West Chicago, IL. Directs daily FAA-compliance operations, makes hiring recommendations, develops Training Course Outlines and Manuals, monitors pilot/instructor proficiency and currency, and certifies student training records and stage/end-of-course checks. Full-time, salary $75,000.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Directs daily operations to ensure compliance with FAA regulations.
- Makes hiring recommendations, trains staff, and evaluates performance.
- Develops Training Course Outlines, Training Manuals and Procedures.
- Monitors pilot proficiency and currency.
- Monitor FAA 141 required 80% pass rate.
- Certifying each student's training record, stage check and end-of-course test reports, and recommendation for course completion, unless the duties are delegated by the chief instructor to an assistant chief instructor or recommending instructor.
- Ensuring that each certificated flight instructor, certificated ground instructor, passes an initial proficiency check prior to that instructor being assigned instructing duties in the school's approved training course, and thereafter that the instructor passes a recurrent proficiency check every twelve calendar months after the month in which the initial test was accomplished.
- Ensuring that each student accomplishes the required stage checks and end-of-course tests in accordance with the school's approved training course.
- Maintaining training techniques, procedures, and standards for the school that are acceptable to the Administrator.
- Ensures FAA Part 141 Instructor records are accurate and up to date.
- Audits flight training records regularly.
- Supervisory Responsibilities: Assigned Flight Instructors.
What We Offer
401(k) and Employer Match.Medical insurance.HSA/FSA.Dental insurance.Vision insurance.Life insurance.Paid time off.Employee Assistance Program.Tuition Reimbursement/Employee Scholarship.Sick Paid time off.
Requirements
- High School diploma or GED required.
- Active pursuit of undergraduate degree highly sought.
- Hold a Commercial Pilot Certificate or Airline Transport Pilot Certificate and a current Flight Instructor Certificate with appropriate category, class, and instrument ratings applicable to the school's approved training courses.
- Minimum 500 hours Pilot-in-Command (PIC) time, 1000 hours Pilot-in-Command (PIC) time preferred.
- Minimum 50 hours of actual or simulated instrument flight time.
- Flight instructor experience meeting one of the following: at least 1 year of flight instruction experience and 250 hours of flight instruction given, or 500 hours of flight instruction given.
- Instrument instructor experience acquired as a CFII meeting one of the following: at least 1 year of instrument flight instruction experience and 125 hours of instrument flight instruction given, or 200 hours of instrument flight instruction given.
- To be eligible for designation as an assistant chief instructor for a ground school course, a person must have six (6) months of experience as a ground school instructor at a certificated pilot school.
- CFI required.
- CFII required.
- MEI required.
- FAA Class II Medical preferred.
- FAA Class III Medical required.