Aviation careers

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As a member of LifeFlight’s aviation team, you’ll spend each day helping to save lives in Australia and around the world. Each day will be unique and exciting.

You’ll fly wherever patients need help, either for emergency care at the scene of an accident with our rescue helicopters or scheduled bedside-bedside transport onboard our Air Ambulance jets.

One day you might be in Fiji bringing home a sick or injured traveler, the next you might be in the Northern Territory helping a patient from a remote hospital reach lifesaving care at a major hospital.

We underpin this fulfilling, exciting career with a working environment in which safety and employee welfare are paramount. We operate world-class equipment and maintenance programs along with flexible working arrangements that provide you with a safe and enjoyable workplace.

We recruit in the following aviation careers:

Helicopter pilots and co-pilots
Aircrew officers
Winch operators
Jet pilots and co-pilots
Tasking and logistics
Aviation engineers

See currently available positions below:

If you’d like to learn more about working for LifeFlight, check out our currently available positions.

Challenger 604 First Officer

LifeFlight Air Ambulance is a division within LifeFlight Australia that performs both rapid response and schedule medical transports 24/7 from the Brisbane, Townsville and overseas International Airports. We are currently seeking a professional CL604 First Officer to join our team full-time, working a 24 hour standby roster and flying to locations within Australia, throughout Asia, the Pacific and beyond.
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Rotary Wing Pilot Opportunities

LifeFlight Australia and LifeFlight Commercial are recruiting for a number of new and replacement Co-Pilot and Captain roles across our Queensland operational bases as we continue to grow the nation’s most innovative and experienced mission-critical aviation operation. These are genuine opportunities for you to join our team on either the AW139 or B412 platform. We offer a successful development pathway for Co-Pilots to progress to Captain within a fully integrated aviation operating environment.
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Challenger 604 Pilot Opportunities

We are currently seeking professional Challenger 604 Pilots to join our team in Singapore, working a 24 hour standby roster and flying to locations throughout Asia, the Pacific and beyond.
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Queensland is one of the most naturally beautiful places in the world. Clean air, one of the world’s longest coastlines in a single state and natural wonders everywhere you go. Queensland is Australia’s second largest state by area and third most populous. Both a commercial and mining powerhouse and a tourism mecca, Queensland has something for everyone, including thousands of square kilometres of unspoiled wonder.

Whilst Brisbane is shaping itself as a vibrant hub and world leader in attracting industry sectors that are globally scalable in the new world economy, our aeromedical bases in Toowoomba, Sunshine Coast, Bundaberg and Cairns offer a different, and wholly more satisfying pace for many of our recruits. Many of them enjoy working across bases, experiencing a little bit of everything this amazing state has to offer.

If there is nothing advertised that matches your experience and interests, please register for our careers mailing list and you will be emailed when new jobs become available.

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