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Pilot Roles

Do you want to be part of a progressive and dynamic company, with the opportunity to fly on missions to save lives and protect Australia’s borders?

At Leidos, we have opportunities for pilots to join our search and rescue and surveillance teams. Our captains and first officers conduct unique, hands-on, low-level flying to perform missions of national significance.

We regularly seek pilots who can demonstrate solid flying skills and situational awareness coupled with flexibility, adaptability, and the ability to work in a broad team environment.

All training and type ratings are conducted inhouse with extensive use of aircraft simulators. Our search and rescue operations provide unique lifestyle opportunities with only intermittent travel away from home base.

Airborne Surveillance

As a surveillance pilot, you will work collaboratively, with an integrated team of four, to conduct tasked missions safely and professionally.

You will fly a highly modified regional turboprop airliner, equipped with state-of-the-art technology and work with a highly skilled team.

This vital role attracts a generous remuneration package and will provide fantastic job satisfaction.

FIFO Flexibility Opportunities

Interested in a Dash 8 Captain role, but live in a different location to our bases? We offer FIFO (fly in fly out) flexibility opportunities for Dash 8 Captains.

What does this mean? You will have the ability to reside in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane and deploy to one of our operational bases in Cairns, Darwin or Broome.

The structure is a 14 days on / 14 days off fly in, fly out roster - the off period includes one day of paid travel out and one day of paid travel home. Our FIFO Captains will be required to do one 21 day on period each calendar year to provide equal access to peak holiday periods. There is the capacity for our FIFO Dash 8 Captains to take continuous work breaks of up to six weeks.

Our FIFO flexibility opportunities attract a generous remuneration package and can provide fantastic job satisfaction together with an enviable lifestyle. All travel, accommodation, meals and incidental costs associated with the deployments are met or paid for by the company.

Search And Rescue Pilots - Challenger 604

As a pilot with the SAR team, you will work collaboratively with and support your entire crew, working diligently and professionally, to ensure that each mission is a success.

This is not an ordinary pilot job. You will command a highly modified modern medium business jet, equipped with the most advanced technology ever to be integrated into a civil SAR platform and work with a highly skilled team.

This vital role attracts a generous remuneration package, has a family-friendly roster and will provide fantastic job satisfaction.

Career opportunities

No matter what stage you are at in your career, when you join Leidos Airborne Solutions as a pilot, there are always opportunities to progress your career to the next level, should you choose to do so.

The diagram below gives an indication of what opportunities exist for pilots who join our team.

 

Submit your expressions of interest and be part of our success story

If you are interested in a Pilot role with us, please choose from the ‘AUS  - Pilot’ option* where you are asked to nominate your preferred area of interest. 

*Please note that this option is at the bottom of the list and is separate to the Aviation/Aerospace option.

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