About This Role
This role involves the overall administration of flight training, focusing on safety, quality, and student service within the Daytona Beach Flight Training Department. The Assistant Chief Flight Instructor manages all aspects of flight training for 25 Instructor Pilots and is responsible for the welfare of approximately 250 flight students.
Responsibilities
- Provide management of assets and job functions of all assigned personnel
- Ensure the appropriate workload of assigned instructor pilots is maintained
- Assign students
- Track student training progress
- Conduct weekly meetings with teams to coordinate flight operations and enhance Flight Department effectiveness
- Communicate changes in policy and procedures
- Schedule student and instructor training events
- Provide quality flight training and ensure normal progress of assigned students while promoting the initiatives of the university's safety culture, through mentoring and management techniques
- Review, modify, and assist in the completion of required paperwork for progress checks, course completes, withdrawals, extra training, and performance evaluations
- Promote the Embry-Riddle Student Care and Customer Satisfaction programs by counseling students and instructor pilots as needed
- Regularly communicate with students about training progress
- Develop and implement a plan of action if needed
- Monitor student progress to ensure minimum standards are met
- Conduct Fall orientation
- Ensure compliance with University Policy and FAA Regulations
- Verify compliance with Part 141 and Part 142 regulations and Training Course Outlines
- Notify the Chief Flight Instructor on any deviations to Training Course Outlines prior to any deviation
- Verify instructor pilots are conducting training during assigned days and times
- Ensure timely completion of required paperwork
- Ensure the quality of training is maintained by administering assigned phase checks and conducting performance evaluations for FT IPs
- Communicate with the appropriate personnel
- Prepare weekly reports
- Attend weekly meetings
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Supervise assistant training manager(s), flight instructors, student assistants, and flight students assigned to the Assistant Chief Flight Instructor's team
Benefits
- Up to 18 days of paid leave in your first year, including 3 days granted upon hire and 15 days accrued throughout the year
- 9+ paid holidays, including the day after Thanksgiving and the week between Christmas Eve
About the Company
For over 100 years, Embry-Riddle has been the world's leading aviation and aerospace university, educating more than 30,000 students across residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona, as well as through a global network of Worldwide locations and online programs. With more than 165,000 alumni around the world, its impact reaches every corner of the aerospace, aviation, defense and technology industries. Its faculty, researchers and professional staff are advancing innovation across aviation, space, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, autonomous systems and next-generation engineering, solving real-world challenges and shaping the technologies that will define tomorrow.
