About This Role
Contour Aviation is hiring a full-time, home-based CRJ200 Captain in Smyrna, Tennessee. The role is responsible for safe aircraft operation, diligent preflight planning, flight-plan preparation, passenger service, aircraft readiness, compliance with company procedures, and leadership in a professional airline environment.
Duties & Responsibilities
- The Captain must put safety above all other considerations
- comply with schedules and directives governing safe aircraft operation
- perform assigned duties according to company manuals, memoranda, and policies
- conduct diligent preflight planning and prepare flight plans
- provide excellent customer service to passengers
- ensure the aircraft is clean, prepared for flight, and stocked with provisions required for passenger safety and comfort
- wear the company-issued uniform and follow the uniform policy
- and perform other duties assigned by leadership.
What We Offer
Full-time employees receive health, vision, and dental insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, and voluntary life insurance effective the first day of the month following hire.The 401(k) plan begins the first day of the following month and includes company matching contributions of up to 6% of eligible compensation.Benefits also include up to 56 hours of paid sick leave annually, rollover of unused sick leave until a 480-hour sick bank is reached, vested vacation hours available the January 1 following hire, and non-revenue or space-available travel privileges on Contour upon hire with MyID Travel access after six months.Eligible leave includes medical, non-medical family care, maternity and paternity, and personal leave.Compensation includes a stated salary range of $118,000 to $153,963, possible check-pilot, AR/GUS, and in-base overrides, additional trip incentives subject to schedule thresholds, and a $10,000 retention incentive after 24 months followed by additional $10,000 incentives every 12 active months.
Requirements
- Applicants must be at least 23 years old, hold a valid driver’s license with a good driving record, possess a current passport, hold a U.S. ATP license, maintain a current first-class medical, and hold a commercial multi-engine land license with an instrument airplane rating. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States, able to travel internationally, and able to understand, read, and write English. The posting requires a 10-year work-history review, criminal-history, reference, and driving-record checks, acceptable check-ride history, DOT pre-employment and FAA/company random drug and alcohol testing, an English Proficiency Endorsement, and no previous aviation-related accidents or incidents. Candidates must demonstrate polished customer-service and interpersonal skills, leadership, organization, communication, attention to detail, self-motivation, teamwork, and the ability to work under stress and tight time constraints. The role requires flexibility for nights, weekends, holidays, and varying schedules, the ability to lift 75 pounds routinely, and residence allowing reporting within 120 minutes of a dispatch call during assigned duty periods. Flight-time thresholds are listed as Total Time: 1,500 minimum/2,000 recommended
- Pilot in Command Time: 500 minimum/1,000 recommended
- and Multi Engine: 500/1,000 recommended.