Dive Instructor — Resort Courses & Open Water Certification

Responsibilities

• Conduct PADI Open Water Diver certification courses from classroom through checkout dives: the standard 3–4 day OWD course from pool confined water sessions through ocean certification dives at Cancún reef sites
• Lead Discover Scuba Diving resort courses for Hotel Zone guests: DSD is the most frequent daily activity in Cancún resort dive schools — the instructor may lead 3–5 DSDs on a peak day
• Guide certified diver fun dives at MUSA Underwater Museum, the Punta Nizuc reef system, and the Manchones Reef near Isla Mujeres: these sites require site-specific briefing on the MUSA sculptures (don't touch the artwork, the coral colonization process), current conditions, and marine life identification
• Conduct equipment assembly and pre-dive checks for all course participants and rental equipment customers
• Maintain dive log, student record keeping, and PADI online certification submission for completed courses
• Support the dive shop's equipment rental operation: fitting wetsuit, BCD, and mask for rental customers, explaining equipment use, and managing equipment rinse and storage after each dive

Requirements

• PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor certification
• Emergency First Response Instructor certification
• 300+ logged dives; Caribbean reef experience preferred
• English and Spanish bilingual (the Cancún Hotel Zone's diver demographic is primarily North American with domestic Mexican growing)
• Patient and encouraging personality for resort-course first-time divers

Benefits

• IMSS, aguinaldo, paid vacation + premium
• Fixed monthly + student gratuity income
• Free diving access to MUSA and Caribbean reef sites
• Dive equipment provision during shift
• PADI professional development support

Work environment

High-volume resort dive school in Cancún's Hotel Zone. Daily resort courses, certification programs, and guided reef tours in the world's second-largest coral reef system.

About the role

The Cancún resort dive instructor who runs 3 DSDs and 2 Advanced Open Water checkouts in a single day is building diving experience at a pace and frequency that very few work environments in the world provide. The MUSA underwater museum dive — leading guests through a field of 500 life-size sculptures being slowly colonized by coral — is an experience that is genuinely unlike any other dive site on the planet.