Aitheras Aviation Group | First Officer

Aitheras Aviation Group is seeking a full-time Captain to join our team at the Rochester, MN base. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to life-saving missions, including patient transport, organ procurement, and critical care transport, with approximately 90% of trips being life-saving.

Aitheras Aviation is a premier medical transport provider, trusted by medical facilities across the US and internationally since 2005. The company upholds a rigorous culture of safety, demonstrated through comprehensive medical preparedness, training, maintenance, and post-flight evaluations. Aitheras is recognized as one of the few non-scheduled fixed-wing operators fully certified in the FAA Safety Management System, actively setting new industry safety standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Promote positive attitudes toward compliance and safety.
• Execute flight planning, aircraft preflight inspections, and aircraft preparation.
• Perform flight duties, ensuring navigation adheres to approved flight plans.
• Maintain aircraft manuals, navigation charts, and checklists.
• Comply with all applicable regulations, including recent flight experience and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Ensure all required licenses and certificates are current to meet company, ICAO, and FAA requirements.
• Assist with baggage loading/unloading and passenger needs.
• Maintain aircraft cleanliness and appearance, order catering, and ensure commissary inventory and supplies are stocked.
• Attend scheduled ground and simulator training to maintain flight proficiency and knowledge of flight operations, regulations, and aircraft systems.
• Identify and report hazards.
• Perform all other assigned duties.

Minimum Requirements:

• 1000 flight hours as Second in Command - Co-Pilot.
• 200 hours of actual instrument time.
• 250 night hours.
• Multi-engine land rating.
• ATP certificate.
• Unrestricted Passport.
• FCC Restricted Radiotelephone Operator Permit.
• Current First Class medical certificate.
• Two years of multi-crew experience.
• CE500 type rating is preferred.
• Must reside within a 45-minute radius of a company base or be willing to relocate.

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary
• Type rating in CE-500 series aircraft.
• Type ratings on CE-560 and CE-680, and Learjet 35/55.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401k plan with company contribution.
• Paid Time Off (PTO).
• Uniforms provided.
• Initial and recurrent training at Flight Safety International.
• Opportunities for additional flight compensation.
• Schedule: 14 days on / 14 days off, providing approximately six months off per year with full-year salary payout.