Posted 3 days ago
Pilot - Winnipeg Base
@ STARS
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Overview
STARS is hiring a full-time pilot for its Winnipeg Base to fly critical-care air ambulance helicopters. The work involves safely piloting STARS aircraft, maintaining a Category 1 aviation medical, and keeping currency with regulations and training standards. The role requires day and night shifts supporting a 24/7/365 patient care mission, and the start date is to be determined.
Responsibilities:
- Safely and effectively pilot STARS aircraft
- Maintain a Category 1 aviation medical
- Maintain currency with aircraft, regulations, publications and training standards
- Meet licensing requirements
Requirements summary:
- Valid Commercial Rotary Wing Licence
- Minimum 500 helicopter hours, including 300 as pilot-in-command
- Minimum 25 hours night/IFR experience
- Group 4 Instrument and Helicopter Night ratings
- Valid Category 1 medical
- Airbus H145 type rating an asset
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · jazzhr
- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-03
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-04
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-04
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Transportation & driving |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Schedule | day, holidays, weekends, overnight |
| Travel | air: moderate · ground: none |
| Work setting | Vehicle, Outdoors |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical moderate · computer moderate |
| Languages | English |
| Licences & certifications | Commercial Rotary Wing Licence, Category 1 medical, Group 4 Instrument rating, Helicopter Night Rating, HATRA, Helicopter Airline Transport Licence exams |
| Perks mentioned | Transit support |
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STARS
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 7 |
Pilot
Full Time
Why STARS
At STARS, we come to work every day with a purpose…to save lives. Whether you work in the aircraft or at one of our six bases, everyone at STARS plays a vital role in helping to provide critical care, anywhere. Since flying our first mission in 1985, we have never lost sight of what is most important – our VIPS, or Very Important Patients. Each year, we fly over 3,000 missions, providing world-class critical medical care whenever and wherever we are needed, and every team member contributes to helping that VIP. We are a lifeline to the community when time and clinical expertise can make all the difference.
We are currently looking for a Pilot at our Winnipeg Base in the Aviation department.
*Please note: start date of: TBD
Being a Pilot with STARS is about so much more than flying an aircraft – it’s about being a beacon of hope when the unimaginable happens. Our Pilots undergo extensive, ongoing training each year to ensure they are at the top of their game, ready to respond no matter the conditions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Safely and effectively pilot STARS aircraft
- Maintain a category 1 aviation medical
- Maintain currency and proficiency with respect to:
- Aircraft flown
- Regulations
- Publications
- Training standards
- Licensing requirements
- A valid Commercial Rotary Wing Licence
- A minimum of 500 hours of helicopter experience, including 300 hours as pilot-in-command (PIC)
- A minimum of 25 hours of night/IFR experience
- A minimum of 10 hours of multi-engine helicopter experience
- Helicopter Airline Transport Licence exams completed (HATRA, or HARON and HAMRA)
- Group 4 Instrument rating and Helicopter Night Ratings are required
- Valid Category 1 medical
- Airbus H145 type rating will be considered an asset
- Legally eligible to work in Canada
- Ability to successfully complete the Controlled Goods Security Assessment Application for Night Vision Goggle purposes
- Ability to obtain and maintain eligibility under the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Flight Training Security Program (FTSP) for simulator training in the United States
- Ability to travel to the United States and other international locations for simulator training
- Immunization records with required vaccinations
- The position requires the applicant to work a schedule of day and night shifts to make our 24/7/365 patient care mission possible
- All STARS Pilot roles are physically demanding and require overall strength, flexibility, and cardiovascular capabilities.
- All Pilot roles have bona fide occupational requirements, e.g., physical standards, that are integral to fulfilling the role. These are detailed in the Pilot Physical Demands Analysis that is shared during the recruitment selection process.
- All Pilot roles are required to wear personal protective equipment.
At STARS, every day we come to work with a purpose, to save lives. Maybe that’s your purpose too.
We provide a strong total reward offering inclusive of a salary tailored to your education and experience, comprehensive organization-paid health and dental benefits, free parking and more. But the real reward is joining a legacy – a legacy of lives saved, of hope in the face of the unimaginable, and of pride in making a difference.
When you join STARS, you become part of a community that knows we’re stronger together. It takes a team to deliver the highest standards of care, and we need you to help us be our best.
Elevate your career. Be part of something bigger. Be part of STARS.
How to Apply / Deadline to apply:
If you are the person we are looking for and would like to make a difference with your career, please make sure to apply by closing date: November 20, 2026.
Want to learn more?
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