SkyCare Air Ambulance & Charters Job Board
Crew Chief (AME)
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada .
full-time . June 18, 2024
Description
Crew Chief (AME)
Permanent Full-time Opportunity
About SkyCare:
SkyCare is on a mission to provide life-saving and essential air travel services across North America. We’re a team of passionate individuals who take pride in providing the highest levels of safety, comfort, and care to all our passengers. 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!
SkyCare is a privately-owned and family-operated organization based in Sioux Lookout, Ontario with additional bases in Manitoba and Southern Ontario. As a premium provider of Canadian air ambulance services, we are constantly growing and looking for hard-working individuals who share our excitement for building something meaningful.
Why Join Us?
· Impactful Work: in the past 10 months, SkyCare has successfully completed over 3,000 medevac calls and delivered over 180 organs.
· Growth Opportunities: competitive career-progression programs and professional development support to help you reach your goals.
· Perks & Benefits: extended health / vision / dental care / life / long-term disability insurance, employee and family assistance program, group retirement savings plan.
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 minimal 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
What You’ll Love About Working Here:
Your work will directly contribute to saving lives, worldwide. For more information about SkyCare and the impact you can be a part of, please visit: https://www.skycare.ca
How To Apply:
Submit your application online at http://skycare.applytojobs.ca/ or by email, to resumes@skycare.ca.
We encourage all qualified candidates to apply and thank all applicants for their interest in joining SkyCare however, only those who are selected will be contacted.
Closing Date: open until filled.
We embrace each other’s unique qualities through our commitment to inclusiveness, equity, and accessibility and if you require accommodation during the selection process, please let us know.
Compensation
$40.10 - $49.35 per hour