About This Role
Intermountain Medical Transport LLC is hiring a fixed-wing Pilot in Command at Cortez Air Base to conduct safe and effective aircraft operations supporting patient transports. The role combines preflight planning, weather interpretation, operational decision-making, regulatory compliance, aircraft readiness, crew coordination, and communication with medical personnel, communication specialists, and patients and their families. Depending on assignment, the pilot may also lead satellite-base activities, evaluate and train other pilots, mentor Second-in-Command pilots, and support safety oversight, quality improvement, and education.
Duties & Responsibilities
- The Pilot in Command is accountable for safely and effectively operating aircraft in accordance with Federal Aviation Regulations, manufacturer recommendations, and Intermountain policies. Duties include applying independent critical thinking during preflight planning and aircraft operations
- maintaining detailed knowledge of aviation regulations, policies, and procedures
- communicating promptly with team members, communication specialists, and patient or family members
- coordinating operational decisions
- keeping the aircraft clean and functioning properly
- maintaining a safe environment for pilots, medical crew, and patients
- and evaluating transports against service criteria and guidelines. The pilot develops professionally, supports peer education and development, participates in selected flight reviews and team education, provides a resource for transport and flight-operation questions, and uses non-transport time for professional development. The pilot assists medical crew members by moving bags, directing and participating in patient loading and unloading, replenishing aircraft oxygen and engine oil, and completing other operational duties as needed. When designated Lead Pilot, the employee assists with administration and management of satellite-base functions and activities and takes corrective action when established rules, procedures, or policies are not followed. As an Instructor Pilot or Check Pilot, the employee evaluates pilot performance, documents results accurately and promptly, and supports ongoing training-program assessment and quality improvement. As a Mentor Pilot, the employee mentors and serves as a resource for company Second-in-Command pilots and completes the requirements of the Company Pilot Development Program. As a Safety Representative, the employee monitors safety issues, helps oversee and resolve safety-related problems, participates in Safety Committee reviews, implements best practices, and provides safety training and education within the assigned base or area.
What We Offer
Intermountain states that it provides caregivers with a generous benefits package covering a wide range of programs designed to support well-being across healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged living, and directs applicants to its comprehensive benefits package information.
Requirements
- External applicants for single-engine aircraft must hold a Commercial certificate with the appropriate category and class ratings and an instrument-airplane rating, be eligible to complete an ATP CTP course within one year of employment, and have 2,500 hours in airplanes. External applicants for multi-engine aircraft must hold an ATP rating for Multi-Engine Land Airplanes and have 3,000 hours in airplanes, including 1,000 multi-engine hours, 200 hours at night in airplanes, 300 instrument hours of which 100 are in actual instrument conditions, 500 Pilot in Command hours in a multi-engine airplane, and 500 Pilot in Command hours in a turbine airplane. Internal candidates must hold the specified Commercial certificate and instrument-airplane qualifications, complete an ATP CTP course before aircraft training, have 2,000 hours in airplanes, and have been continuously employed as a pilot at Intermountain Health for two years
- the posting also lists the same night and instrument experience requirements for internal candidates. Preferred qualifications include EMS experience, 100 hours of King Air 90/200 PIC time, 50 hours of PC-12 PIC time, and 200 hours of turbojet experience. The role requires effective verbal communication and hearing, the ability to support, push, pull, lift, and carry aviation and clinical equipment, the ability to transfer patients, and the ability to lift at least 50 pounds. Pilots may need to stand or sit for extended periods, use stairs around the aircraft, operate aviation equipment and computers, read monitors and documents, move through confined aircraft spaces on hands and knees, and bend or kneel while handling supplies and equipment.