Crew Chief

**Crew Chief**

**_Permanent Full-time Opportunity_**

**_Why SkyCare:_**

SkyCare is a private family-owned and operated company with an unmatched passion for providing essential air travel that literally saves lives. Our success means we are growing as a dynamic and exciting air ambulance and air charter service. We are based in Sioux Lookout, Ontario. With additional bases in Manitoba and Southern Ontario, we provide private, corporate, and medevac flight services as far north as the Arctic Circle and as far south as the Equator. We fly when and where our passengers need to go All of us provide the highest level of safety, comfort, and care to our passengers - every flight.

**Benefits**:

- Extended health, vision, dental care, life, and long-term disability insurance
- Employee & Family Assistance Program
- Group Retirement Savings Plan
- Professional Development Support

Location: Kitchener, Ontario

**Salary**: $40.10 - $49.35 per hour. Start rate will be commensurate with education and experience. Salary progression based on merit.

**Job Summary & Responsibilities**:
The Crew Chief will be responsible to the Base Engineer and/or Production Manager and ultimately the Director of Maintenance to supervise the completion of the scheduled and unscheduled work as assigned on a daily basis.

**Skills and Qualifications**:

- Must hold a valid AME license and be in good standing with Transport Canada
- 2 years of Aircraft maintenance experience
- Previous supervisory experience an asset
- Previous experience with Westwind 1124A, Navajo Chieftain and Metro/Merlin, aircraft an asset
- Previous experience with Aircraft Maintenance Systems (AMS) an asset
- Must be able to work with mínimal supervision
- Must have strong mechanical aptitude & excellent troubleshooting skills
- Commitment to work with Company policies and procedures and support a safety culture
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Supervise the maintenance, repair, modification, overhaul and alteration of aircraft and aeronautical products
- Monitoring aircraft inspections, repair and modification processes, and the quality of shop and/or work performed by external agencies
- Report all major modifications to the Director of Maintenance
- Assist in the management of AMO staff and equipment
- Assist in ensuring that sufficient parts, materials, special tools and equipment are available to accomplish the maintenance tasks
- Ensure the condition and cleanliness of the workplace and equipment is maintained
- All pink sheets pulled from logbooks and AMS times updated
- All maintenance entries and work orders complete and in appropriate box
- All parts required entered on the requisition list and work orders created to match
- Completed work description filled out in the communication book
- Update other departments on aircraft availability
- Train & mentor Apprentice AME’s

**Closing Date: Open until filled.**

Pay: $40.10-$49.35 per hour