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 fly 5 days a week, year-round northwest of Atlanta, GA on our 60-acre private airpark. We value safety, professionalism, and courteousness in all of our staff, whether full- or part-time.
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 schedule ratings courses as needed so you can achieve any additional ratings you don’t yet hold.
Projected Annual Customer Volume
- 4,000+ tandems
- 1,000+ AFF (STP)
- 2,000 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
Housing
Space in our on-site Staff House is on a first-come basis, and there are limited RV slots on the dropzone.
Local towns with apartment housing:
- Cedartown
- Rockmart
There is also a campground nearby if you would prefer trailer living.
Hours of Operation
- Weekdays 8:00 AM to Sunset
- Weekends 7:30 AM to Sunset
- DZ is closed on Christmas Day
Swoop Park
- Yes! We have a well maintained 300′ swoop pond in our dedicated High Performance Landing Area for experienced Canopy Pilots.
Facilities
- 3,000 square feet of indoor packing space
- Standard Caravan with occasional Super Twin Otter support
- Air-conditioned office work space for staff available
- Separate landing areas for standard and high-performance approaches
- Landing area 1 – All jumpers use predictable left-hand traffic landing in predetermined landing direction set by an LDI (landing direction indicator), no turns greater than 90 degrees
- Landing area 2 – Expert Canopy Pilots with no restrictions on turns, landing in predetermined landing direction defined by LDI and shortest walk
- Air-conditioned editing workstation with VShortcut editing software
Equipment
- Sigma tandem rigs with Icarus TX2 365 Canopies
- Sun Path student Javelins for students and rentals
Equipment requirements for jump staff
- Tandem Instructors: 2 altimeters and goggles
- Camera Flyers: Rig, GoPro/similar video camera with stabilization, and a DSLR with a bite/blow switch
- AFF (STP) Instructors: Rig, Small digital camera such as GoPro, Sony Action Camera, Drift, Contour or similar
Pay & Perks (for contracted instructors and camera flyers)
- Tandem: Jumps start at $40 with additional payouts for Handcam (+$30) and students over 220 lbs (+$20-40). Tips are often generous.
- AFF (STP): $55 for lower levels, $45 for upper levels
- Tandem Video: $40-$45 depending on the video package purchased
- Quarterly bonuses are available after 90 days of employment, and are based on having multiple ratings and seniority at Spaceland (up to $7 additional per jump for all work jumps)
- Fun Jump slots $24 (reg. $28). Limited free fun jumps are available for staff subject to space on the load.
- Organizing/mentoring 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.
Spaceland also offers an annual unlimited jump package that is good from Jan. 1-Dec. 31. This package covers your hop and pop and/or full-altitude slots for as many fun jumps as you can do! Contact manifest at 770-748-2200 to purchase this package or check it out online!
For more questions, please feel free to email our manager Don Cameron at Don@SkydiveSpaceland.com.