Pilot

About This Role

This pilot position with the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW), Game Management Division, involves flying rotorcraft to assist Department staff with wildlife survey activities and habitat improvement projects. The role requires extensive flying over mountainous and varied terrain, often at low altitudes and sometimes with limited visibility due to weather, dust, and fires.

Responsibilities

• Perform pre-flight and post-flight activities, including scheduling routes, monitoring weather, calculating load and fuel requirements
• Conduct routine pilot inspections to ensure aircraft airworthiness
• Fuel and preheat aircraft as necessary
• Secure aircraft in hangar or cover and tie down aircraft after flight
• Pilot jet, piston, and turbine aircraft, which may include helicopters and fixed-wing single-engine and/or multi-engine aircraft
• Maintain operation and component records for agency aircraft by recording date and hours of operation and component changes
• Perform airframe and powerplant inspection of airplanes and/or helicopters at specified intervals
• Perform aircraft servicing, routine repairs, and field repairs as a result of detected problems
• Review and maintain files of information regarding Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations, aeronautical charts, factory and vendor service bulletins, airworthiness directives, and agency operating procedures
• Participate in training and recertification activities to maintain current ratings required to pilot assigned aircraft
• Perform related duties as assigned

Requirements

• Graduation from high school or equivalent education
• 3,500 hours logged, pilot-in-command total rotorcraft or fixed-wing multi- and/or single-engine aircraft flight time, as designated by the agency at the time of recruitment
• Flight experience must include 250 hours low-level flight
• 250 hours conducting external load operations
• 500 hours mountain flying above 5,000 feet mean sea level
• 100 hours of flight time within the preceding 12 months
• Maintain current certification to fly agency aircraft

About the Company

The Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW), Game Management Division, operates two Bell 407 HP helicopters.