Helicopter Pilot

Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: Other trades certificate or diploma
- Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years
- **Work site environment**:

- Commercial aviation
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Bush pilot operation
- Confined spaces
- Noisy
- Search and rescue
- Aerial surveys
- Sightseeing
- Forest firefighting
- ** Work setting**:

- Various locations
- Willing to relocate
- ** Tasks**:

- Fly fixed wing aircrafts or helicopters
- Follow emergency procedures to compensate for equipment malfunction or failure
- Make in-flight repairs, such as replacing fuses and adjusting instruments
- Monitor operation of engine and aircraft systems during flight
- Perform post-flight inspections
- Record equipment malfunctions and corrective actions taken during flight
- Report required repairs to ground maintenance personnel
- Train licenced pilots for additional certification
- Co-ordinate flight activities with ground crews and air-traffic control, inform crew members of flight and test procedures and direct activities of aircraft crew during flights
- Conduct in-flight tests and monitor functioning of aircraft equipment and systems during flights
- Conduct pre-flight inspection of aircraft and check passenger and cargo distribution to ensure that weight and balance specifications are met
- Contact control towers for takeoff clearances, arrival instructions and other information
- Maintain communications with flight dispatchers and weather forecasters and respond to and report in-flight emergencies and malfunctions
- ** Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:

- Commercial Pilot Licence - rotors
- Visual Flight Rating
- ** Security and safety**:

- Medical exam
- ** Transportation/travel information**:

- Valid driver's licence
- Own transportation
- Willing to travel
- Willing to travel regularly
- ** Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Overtime required
- Sitting
- ** Personal suitability**:

- Excellent oral communication
- Organized
- Team player
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Reliability
- ** Screening questions**:

- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you available for the advertised start date?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
- ** Workplace information**:

- On the road job
- ** Health benefits**:

- Dental plan
- Health care plan