About This Role
TransMedics is seeking a Certified Flight Instructor who resides in Montana to provide classroom and flight training, evaluate student proficiency, and report on student progress. The instructor will teach risk management, aircraft systems, operating procedures, emergency handling, problem analysis, navigation, radio operation, and aerodynamics while reinforcing Summit Aviation’s policies and safety procedures. The role also includes student scheduling, records management, training standardization, aircraft-condition monitoring, curriculum improvement, safety reporting, and participation in instructor development activities.
Duties & Responsibilities
- The instructor will answer inquiries from prospective students, schedule student flights, conduct facility tours, and explain Summit Aviation, Inc. policies, procedures, and flight-training courses. Duties include providing flight instruction authorized by the Federal Aviation Regulations under the approved Training Course Outline
- teaching risk management, aircraft systems, operating procedures, emergency procedures, problem analysis, navigation, radio operation, and aerodynamics
- evaluating proficiency and reporting progress
- maintaining instructor qualifications
- and accurately maintaining student training records, logbooks, computer records, and required course paperwork. The instructor will regularly schedule assigned students, ensure course standards, requirements, and objectives are met, initiate stage-check requests, support timely course completion, monitor the maintenance condition of training aircraft, report questionable items to maintenance personnel, recommend curriculum and courseware improvements, develop materials when assigned, file incident reports for safety violations or flight-safety concerns, and attend administrative, standardization, in-service training, and instructor-development meetings.
Requirements
- Applicants must reside in Montana and hold a high school diploma or equivalent, an FAA Certificated Flight Instructor (CFI) credential, and a current FAA Medical Certificate.
- An MEI or CFII is preferred but not required.
- The instructor must maintain the qualifications required by applicable regulations and perform training in accordance with the approved Training Course Outline.