We are committed to fostering a work environment that is open, challenging and motivating for our people. All employees will, throughout their careers with West Atlantic, have opportunities for development and training to enhance their professional and personal competencies.
In this spirit we are proud to have developed our Cadet Programme for highly motivated individuals wishing to pursue their career as pilots. Every year we sponsor few selected people, typically with almost no aviation experience, allowing them to get to know the specifics of the airline organization in its every aspect and helping them to fulfill their dreams.
Based on our experienced staff and mature culture we offer:
- A centre of learning excellence for pilots and technicians alike with complete tailored programmes for both Flight Crews and Technical staff to train for and to secure the necessary licensees and approvals for reliable and economic aircraft operations.
- Ab-initio and recurrent training, residential or web based distance learning.
We are constantly expanding and have requirements for various posts, please see job vacancies for further information.
You may find our current job vacancies in the relevant sections. In other cases and general enquiries please use careers@westatlantic.eu
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Group Recruitment Pilots
West Atlantic is Europe’s most trusted provider of safe, efficient and environmentally sound, cargo aircraft solutions to the European Express and Mail industry.
We are a fast growing, all cargo airline Group with Head Office in Göteborg, Sweden and business centres in both the U.K. and Luxembourg.
Comprised of our three established airlines of West Air Sweden, West Air Luxembourg and Atlantic Airlines including two fully capable, in-house Part 145 Maintenance providers and a Training Organisation, together our Group employs some 450 dedicated professionals.
Currently our fleet numbers around 50 aircraft and, in 2010, we performed approximately 25,000 flights, serving 47 scheduled flight points in an network supported by 4 Base Maintenance facilities located at Malmö, Oslo, Coventry, Isle of Man and a setup of 11 remotely located Line Stations.
Consisting mostly of BAe ATP, our fleet also includes ATR 72, CRJ-200, B737, B767, Lockheed Electra.
Our customer activity is divided approximately 50% by serving the Integrated Express parcel carries such as DHL, FedEx, UPS, TNT, ChronoPost and 50% in the service of National Mail organisations such as Swedish Post, Posten Norway and Royal Mail.
To support our expanding activity we require applications from high quality professionals who share a passion for excellence and are willing to go the extra mile to provide the highest levels of service delivery to our customers.
The ongoing recruitment process for ATP positions is closed until we start recruiting again.
We will keep the website updated and inform when the next recruitment process is scheduled and it is only prior to these that we will open up our online application form.
Unfortunately we are not able to answer questions over the phone .
Applications are only considered being done through our website using the therefore designed application form.
Open positions: Pilots typerated and experienced on the CRJ
For details and requirements about these positions please have a look at the advert on Aviation Job Search
http://www.aviationjobsearch.com/jobs/pilots_jobs/
and use the online application form:
http://mk.quicknet.se/124161/extra/anmalan.asp?id=6&chk=p8847M9M66
Claudia Langhard
HR Manager
West Atlantic Recruitment Board
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General information referring Pilot Positions:
We have pilot bases across continental Europe and the UK.
Applicants are requested to provide means of self-funding the type-rating cost which totals €17,500 on the BAe ATP.
The Group will sponsor the Company specific courses.
The typerating training normally takes 4-6 weeks, followed by simulator check and linetraining.
Employment date is equivalent to first day of line-training.
Technical Requirements:
Valid CPL / IR / ME
MCC & ATPL Theory
Valid Class One Medical
ICAO Level 4+ English standards
Full unrestricted Passport providing the ability to permanently live and work in the EU and travel worldwide
To meet our exceptional standards you will also need to be customer focused, possess excellent communication skills, enjoy working as a part of a team, display flexibility to support the needs of the business and significantly, to have an understanding of the challenging requirements of a successful business in todays changing and demanding aviation environment.
Recruitment process:
Those selected will be invited to an interview. Those successful at this stage will be scheduled a simulator proficiency check and psychometric testing.
Those passed will thereafter be offered a starting date for the type-rating normally scheduled to take place in our own facilities in Malmoe, Sweden, and with the simulator sessions in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Vacant position: Ground Operations Manager for the West Atlantic Group
West Atlantic is looking for a GOM responsible for the group, including the 3 airlines West Air Luxembourg, West Air Sweden and Atlantic Airlines.
Your scope of responsibilities include (but are not limited to) the below:
- Performance of functions and activities within the scope of ground handling operations, such as: cargo and mail handling, aircraft handling, load control, de-icing and fuelling
- Negotiate and prepare contracts with 3rd parties in reference to GOM’s area of responsibilities
- Keep the ground operations Manual current and distributed to all relevant parties together with the DGR documentation and is also responsible to ensure all involved personnel receive training in DGR
- Auditing contracted parties to monitor compliance with EASA OPS, AEA, IATA and ICAO standards
- Responsible for having a quality system that provides for auditing of functions within ground handling operations
- Responsible for managing all reports withing his scope of responsibilities and having a process for addressing findings resulting from audits of functions within ground handling operations
- Ensure that personnel who perform operational duties in functions within the scope of ground handling operations for the group receive necessary training, including familiarizarion courses with newly employed and contracted flight crew
- Responsible for the ground operational information being published in the Pilot Manual and publish CCS referring the same
Qualifications:
You need to have previous experience from the same function within aviation.
You must have documented administrative competence.
English being our group language you need to be fluent in English.
The position is conditioned by you being approved by the authorities.
Please send your application latest December 2nd to:
