Manager, Standardization Instructor Pilots - Flight School ; Ozark, AL

Manager, Standardization Instructor Pilots - Flight School Next (Ozark, AL) (342706)

Location:

Ozark, AL

• Lead and supervise the Standardization Instructor Pilots, ensuring safe operation, high-quality instruction, instruction standardization, and alignment with Bell values.
• Oversee all instructor training and evaluation activities, including teaching techniques, CRM/human factors, standardization processes, initial evaluations, stage checkrides, and instructor proficiency checks, ensuring compliance with Flight School Next, FAA, and U.S. Army requirements.
• Assign and schedule instructors for all training and evaluation events, balancing qualifications, workload distribution, operational demand, and coordination with scheduling and operations teams.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on the Bell 505 and Flight School Next training systems, supporting Ozark and additional training sites with guidance on instructional, standardization, and evaluation practices.
• Ensure full regulatory compliance by managing instructor qualifications, records, documentation, and updates to SOPs, training syllabi, courseware, and Aircrew Training Manuals.
• Track, analyze, and report instructor performance metrics, quality indicators, evaluation trends, and student outcomes, recommending corrective actions to strengthen consistency and training effectiveness.
• Ensure PMP goals and objectives for all direct reports are coordinated and integrated with the Director of Flight Operations and aligned with Flight School Next’s annual objectives.

• 10 years Flight Instruction experience
• 3000 hours of helicopter flight experience
• 2500 hours as a Flight Instructor
• Supervisory experience
• Helicopter ATP
• CFI/CFII rating
• Organizational, communications, leadership, interpersonal, and customer relationship skills
• Current Class II Physical
• Preferred:
  • NVG Training Experience, Primary Flight Training Experience, Pilot ground training experience

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