Lead Flight Instructor

# Lead Flight Instructor Vantage Aviation Duluth, MN, USA4 days agoJob description

About Vantage Aviation:

Vantage is a fully integrated, multi-vertical business aviation firm that specializes in all things’ private aviation. Hangar leasing, fuel and ground handling support, aircraft management and charter services, flight training schools, and turbine maintenance services are all within our scope of capability and expertise. Vantage Aviation is a private equity backed, fully integrated business aviation firm pursuing FBO, MRO, and 135 charter acquisitions and development opportunities throughout North America.

We seek opportunities where airport sponsors and their aviation stakeholders can benefit from our highly integrated, full-service offering. Our menus of services meet the highest Minimum Standards of Service within the industry, allowing us to provide a better service for all those who enjoy the benefits of general and business aviation.

Position Summary:

The Lead Flight Instructor is a senior, working Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) at the DLH location whose primary function is delivering flight and ground instruction and promoting instructional standardization among DLH instructors. The Lead Flight Instructor fulfills all requirements of the CFI position, maintains an active roster of flight school students, and serves as an instructional resource for DLH Certified Flight Instructors by offering guidance on effective training delivery, student progress, and instructional best practices.

On a limited part-time basis, the Lead Flight Instructor performs defined coordination tasks under procedures set and approved by Vantage's Chief Flight Instructor.

Working under the direction of Vantage's Chief Flight Instructor, who oversees all Vantage Flight School locations, the Lead Flight Instructor helps maintain a high standard of training, safety, and customer service at the DLH location and provides input to the Chief Flight Instructor on instructor and aircraft schedule conflicts. This position has no responsibilities at other Vantage locations.

Requirements Essential Responsibilities & Duties:
• Perform all Essential Responsibilities & Duties of a Certified Flight Instructor, maintaining an active student roster to foster onsite relationships with both students and other Certified Flight Instructors.
• Foster and uphold a strong culture of safety, ensuring that safety remains the highest priority in all flight school operations.
• Report aircraft discrepancies and schedule routine maintenance appointments under a plan approved in advance by the Chief Flight Instructor, who retains authority over all maintenance and leaseback decisions.
• Assign Discovery Flights and new students to qualified flight instructors through an equitable and rotating assignment process as outlined and implemented by the Chief Flight Instructor.
• Monitor instructor enrollment activity and periodically review student records to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with school procedures.
• Serve as the first-line on-site contact for routine student and parent questions, resolving routine issues in a timely, professional, and customer-focused manner and escalating complaints, account, enrollment, and policy matters to the Chief Flight Instructor.
• Distribute new student inquiries among flight instructors on a rotating basis to ensure fair access to instructional opportunities.
• Serve as the on-site point of contact for reporting aircraft-related concerns to the Chief Flight Instructor and following up on corrective actions approved by the Chief Flight Instructor.
• Collaborate closely with the FBO front desk staff to support aircraft renters, students, and instructors while promoting efficient daily…