Feb 22, 2012
Want to work in a fast-paced, fun-based environment? Advance your skydiving career at Skydive Spaceland, one of the world’s largest skydiving operations! We are open 7 days per week, year-round just south of Houston, Texas, on our 140-acre private airpark built from the ground up exclusively for skydiving. We value safety, professionalism, and courteousness in all of our staff, whether full- or part-time.
We have a number of world record holders and highly competitive skydivers in various disciplines here at Skydive Spaceland who can help you further improve your skydiving skill set. Quite simply, we want you to work for us and we want to help you grow into the very best instructor, rigger, manifestor, or whatever it is in skydiving that you want to be! We also have examiners from The Ratings Center that call Spaceland home, and can train you for any additional ratings you don’t yet hold.
Projected DZ Customer volume for 2013
- 13,000+ tandems
- 3,000+ AFF (STP)
- 9,000 tandem videos
Workload
- Summer months will average 125 + work jumps per month (some do over 200) subject to multiple qualifications
- Winter months will average as few as 50 up to 100 work jumps per month subject to winter weather
- Work days are scheduled in advance and usually 5 days per week, but staff are welcome to work all days
Housing
Local towns with apartment housing
- Pearland, TX (about 18 miles away) most preferred
- Angleton, TX (about 13 miles away)
- Alvin, TX (about 14 miles away)
DZ accommodations
- DZ RV slots are available with full hook-ups for $300-$500 per month
- DZ owned RVs available for rent in addition to the slot rent
- New bunkhouse with full showers, laundry, and restrooms
Hours of Operation
- DZ is open for business every day except Christmas Day
- Monday-Friday open at 8:00 a.m. till sunset
- Weekends open at 7:30 a.m. till sunset
Swoop Park
- Yes- a very large swoop park (Host of Swoop Nationals 3 years running)
- Swoop Park is always open and very near the facility for ease of use
Facilities
- 3,000 square feet of indoor climate controlled packing space
- 4 Super Twin Otters, 1 Super-Caravan (900 HP), 2 Sky Vans, 1 Caravan, C-172 (for staff with pilot certificate)
- Air Conditioned Office work space for staff available
- 30 new Sigma Tandem Rigs
- 36 new Sun Path Student Javelins
- Two complete HD Digital editing stations with full-time video editors running Vegas
- Air-conditioned camera flyer work station
- On-site deli open all days
- 3 Separate landing areas for canopy pilot separation
- Landing area 1 – All jumpers use predictable left-hand traffic landing in predetermined landing direction defined by conditions no turns greater than 90 degrees
- Landing area 2 – Expert Canopy Pilots with no restrictions on turns, landing in predetermined landing direction defined by conditions and shortest walk
- Landing area 3 – Swoop park and all others not wishing to land in area 1 or 2
Equipment requirements for jump staff
- Tandem Instructors: Spaceland Team jumpsuit (or swoop shorts/pants), Sigma harness, 2 altimeters and goggles
- Camera Flyers: Rig, Spaceland jumpsuit, CX product line HD camera and DSLR
- AFF (STP) Instructors: Rig, Spaceland jumpsuit, Small digital camera such as Go Pro, Drift, Contour or similar
Pay & Perks (for contracted instructors and camera flyers)
- Tandem jumps: $30 (generous tips usually), no hand-cams
- AFF (STP): $45
- Video: $31
- Fun Jump slots $21 to 13,500
- Organizing is encouraged when not teaching
- Gear discounts
Our instructor rotation policy is a simple fixed rotation with a sign-in sheet for each workday. Staff that are qualified for more than one trade will be given work based on the needs of that particular load. It is quite common to make a tandem jump on one load, then shoot video on the very next.
For more questions, please feel free to email Jason Hyder at jason@skydivespaceland.com
