Flight Training Quality Specialist
- Employer
- Cirrus Aircraft
- Location
- Knoxville, Tennessee, US
- Salary
- Join our team!
Job Details
Essential Duties:
- Evaluate the flight skills, knowledge and instructional proficiency of the members of the Cirrus flight training network.
- Extensive travel is required - 50% total travel time, 80% within USA, 20% internationally.
- Manage own schedule as required to meet the audit goals as defined by the Manager of Flight Training.
- Provide flight and ground instruction per standards defined in Cirrus policy and procedure documents.
- Conduct presentations, seminars, and large ground school sessions as required.
- Operate Cirrus aircraft in accordance with applicable regulations and Cirrus company policies.
- Make timely and accurate decisions regarding safety of flight.
- Manage travel expenses in accordance with Cirrus company policies.
- Provide excellent and professional customer service.
- Act as pilot in command of Cirrus aircraft while performing corporate flight missions, ferry flights, internal training flights, and demonstration flights.
- As required, assist the domestic and international sales team in the selling process, including supporting tradeshows and other Cirrus sales events.
- Process and maintain a deep level of aircraft knowledge and be a model aviator, flight instructor, and Cirrus representative.
- Perform normal pre flight and post flight inspections as well as clean, fuel, add oil and de-ice fluid, update chart subscriptions, etc.
- Process and maintain a deep level of aircraft knowledge and be a model aviator, flight instructor, and Cirrus representative
- Other duties as assigned.
Education and/or Experience:
- Current and active FAA certified Flight Instructors only
- 1500 hours of total flight time preferred
- 1000 hours acting as instructor preferred
- 500 hours Cirrus instruction and CSIP preferred
- Experience managing or working in a flight school environment preferred
- IFR in congested airspace, mountain flying, extensive IMC, and night experience preferred
Additional Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities:
- Strong customer service and interpersonal skills required
- Courseware development experience is preferred
- Presentation and speaking skills
- Ability to work independently and accurately
- Ability to create and manage own schedule while meeting goals and obligations.
Certificate or Licensures:
- FAA Certified Flight Instructor w/ Instrument (CFII) required
- FAA 1st or 2nd class medical required
Cirrus is dedicated to a drug free work environment promoting equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, national origin, color, age, disability, religion, pregnancy, veteran status, marital and family status, sexual orientation, receipt of public assistance, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Company
Since day one in 1984, Cirrus Aircraft has been committed to the future of aviation through smart safety, ease of operation and most adamantly, continuous innovation. Along the way, every turn has meant challenges and opportunities to grow general aviation–improving the flying experience as a whole.
Our goal is to utilize technology to drive enhanced safety, performance, sophistication and comfort. We are proud that today, after 30 years of dedication, the Cirrus brand is associated with these accolades and hallmarks that mean so much to us. Our line of all-composite personal aircraft-–the SR20, SR22 and turbocharged SR22T–lives up to this by incorporating advanced electronic and standard safety technologies including Cirrus Perspective by Garmin avionics and the unique Cirrus Airframe Parachute System® (CAPS®).
Our latest aircraft, the Vision Jet, raises the bar even higher as it ushers in a new era in personal transportation and introduces the world to “the personal jet.”
We’ve traveled far, but in many ways, we’re only just taking off. Join our team and become a part of the future today.
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