About This Role
Guardian Flight is hiring a fixed-wing pilot in Scottsbluff to operate Pilatus PC12 aircraft for medical air transportation. The role supports day and night patient trips on a 7-days-on, 7-days-off schedule and emphasizes safe, reliable, professional service within a medical aviation team.
Duties & Responsibilities
- The pilot safely transports customers to and from medical locations and facilities while working with medical experts. Duties include ensuring aircraft readiness for dispatch in accordance with applicable manuals, FARs, and company requirements
- maintaining aircraft cleanliness
- keeping accurate company and regulatory records, including shift documentation and load manifests
- communicating effectively with air and ground dispatch, flight crews, facilities, and partners
- providing complete shift-change information to the incoming pilot
- recording company change-board details according to protocol
- and maintaining required certifications through ongoing ground and flight training. The pilot is expected to be punctual, reliable, professional, and committed to high standards of safety and service. Working conditions may include outside weather, day, night, and overnight shifts, de-icing, aircraft towing, hangar maneuvering, and flight preparation.
What We Offer
The package includes an annual salary of $104,335.85-$114,769.44, a $15,000 sign-on bonus after completing training and the check ride, a $40,000 retention bonus under a three-year program after a six-month waiting period, no training contract, up to $3,000 in relocation assistance, company-paid crew housing, and company-paid ATP training if the pilot has not already completed it.The employer also directs applicants to its careers-site benefits page for additional benefit options.
Requirements
- Applicants must hold a Commercial Airplane Single Engine Land (C-ASEL) certificate and meet the stated flight-time minimums: 2,500 total flight hours, 2,000 fixed-wing hours, 1,000 PIC hours, 500 cross-country hours, 100 night hours, and 75 instrument hours including 50 hours in actual flight.
- Candidates must provide logbooks documenting flight dates, corresponding hours, and cumulative totals that substantiate their resumes.
- They must be willing and able to obtain an ATP within five years of employment, hold a valid and unexpired driver's license, and possess a current FAA First- or Second-Class Medical Certificate.
- Single-pilot IFR experience is ideal, while previous medevac or cargo experience is preferred.
- Preferred education is a high school diploma, GED equivalent, or higher.