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Kindersley Air spray requires one qualified commercially licensed Professional Agricultural Aerial Applicators for the 2021 season to fly a 510P Thrush. Applicants must have 5 years or more experience, a minimum of 1000 hours turbine agricultural experience; Thrush 510P;Applicant must have previous experience with spruce budworm forestry applications, an excellent working knowledge of SATLOC GPS, must be acceptable to our insurance provider (accident free record); Be proficient in numeracy and reading, writing and speaking English. Applicants must be physically able to perform a physically demanding job in a fast paced environment.
Education: Commercial Pilots Licence, Saskatchewan Aerial Pesticide Licence, Turbine Transition Training.
Duties: to fly a fixed wing turbine agricultural aircraft safely and efficiently with the SATLOC GPS flight computer, to work with customers to create spray orders, to work in a professional manner with ground support crews, to perform daily checks on a turbine powered aircraft, to keep work logs in an orderly fashion, to be available to work when conditions are optimum, to keep current Commercial Pilots Licence and provincial pesticide applicators licence, and to mentor junior and first year pilots.
Wages/Salary: Paid monthly. Rate is $75.00 per hour, 40 hours per week, overtime with remuneration.
Workers Compensation coverage as required by law.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Commercial Pilot Licence - fixed wing
Type of Flying
- Forest firefighting
- Crop dusting and spraying
- Commercial aviation