A&P Instructor – Site Lead

Thrust Flight LLC; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Thrust Flight LLC, via the TIM campus in Fort Worth, seeks a Site Lead who is a certificated A&P mechanic and instructor to own the maintenance-training program at the location. This on-site senior role drives academic quality and compliant operations.

You will lead the instructional team, manage scheduling, ensure student outcomes, and uphold FAA Part 147 standards while coordinating with governance and facilities to optimize throughput and training delivery.

Qualifications

• FAA Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) certificate and Part 147 instructor eligibility.
• First-line leadership experience—scheduling, coaching, and maintaining standards.
• Inspection Authorization (IA) preferred.
• Subject-matter depth in avionics, powerplant, or structures preferred.
• Experience ensuring regulatory compliance and audit readiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead instructional team and ensure academic quality and student outcomes.
• Schedule instructors, conduct teaching evaluations, and coach staff.
• Maintain FAA Part 147 compliance and audit readiness with proper records.
• Oversee site capacity, throughput, and enrollment targets.
• Collaborate with Site Coordinator on facilities, tooling, and equipment uptime.
• Develop instructors and build bench depth for TIM career paths.

Skills

Leadership

Instructor scheduling

Teaching evaluations

FAA Part 147 compliance

Student outcomes

Curriculum ownership

Coaching

Throughput management

Facility coordination

Job description

Description

The Site Lead is the senior on-site leader of a Thrust Institute of Maintenance (TIM) campus: a certificated A&P mechanic and instructor who owns the delivery of a measurable, repeatable, and compliant maintenance-training program at their location. As the first-line leader for the site's instructional team, the Site Lead is accountable for academic quality and student outcomes, FAA Part 147 operational compliance, and delivery capacity.

This is the entry point of TIM's operational leadership track. Advancement is driven by instructional-track achievement plus demonstrated mentoring, curriculum ownership, and cross-campus coordination - growing academic leadership entirely within TIM.

Instructional Leadership & Academic Quality

• Serve as first-line leader for the site's instructional team; own instructor scheduling, teaching evaluations, coaching, and day-to-day academic quality.
• Deliver assigned course sections and labs to standard, modeling the teaching quality expected across the site.
• Maintain consistent, on-target student pass rates and learning outcomes across the site's programs.

FAA Part 147 & Regulatory Compliance

• Own the site's operational compliance with FAA Part 147
• Maintain continuous audit readiness - records accuracy and documentation kept to a zero-critical-finding standard.
• Ensure Tools & Equipment and training-aid requirements are met and maintained.

Delivery Capacity & Throughput

• Manage instructor scheduling and site capacity to meet enrollment and completion targets without compromising quality.
• Monitor time-to-completion and throughput; identify and clear bottlenecks in the training pipeline.
• Partner with the Site Coordinator on reservations, facilities, tooling, and equipment uptime.

People & Talent Development

• Hire, onboard, evaluate, and develop instructors; build bench depth against the TIM instructor career-pathing model.
• Coach Instructor I and II staff toward Senior Instructor and Lead-track readiness; own retention at the site.

Requirements

• FAA Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) certificate
• Meets FAA Part 147 instructor eligibility requirements.
• First-line leadership experience (formal or informal) - scheduling, coaching, and holding a team to standard.
• Inspection Authorization (IA) preferred
• Subject-matter depth in avionics, powerplant, or structures preferred