This is an open position with [Company] Service Company, a subsidiary of [Company] Corp.

We are a forward-thinking electric utility powered by a diverse team of employees committed to making customers’ lives brighter, the environment better and our communities stronger.

[Company] (NYSE: FE) is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and operational excellence.

Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, [Company] includes one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, more than 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, and a regulated generating fleet with a total capacity of more than 3,500 megawatts.

Responsibilities include:

• Ensuring that all flights to which they are assigned are operated in a manner consistent with [Company] goals.

• Assisting in developing aircraft checklists and standard operating procedures

• Participating in all required approved training programs for the operator’s flight crews
  Following directives and notices issued to the flight crews as required

• Ensuring that all aerodromes and routes assigned to them are operationally suitable and meet company requirements 

• Participating in the [Company] SMS System

• Maintaining a working knowledge of [Company] Operating Procedures Ensuring that the flight will not be continued beyond the nearest suitable aerodrome or heliport, when a flight crewmember’s capacity to perform functions is significantly reduced by impairment of faculties from causes such as fatigue, sickness or lack of oxygen

• Responsibility for operational control

• Responsibility for the security of the aircraft during its operation

• Checking and assessing weather and all applicable NOTAMs where available

• Determining fuel, oil and oxygen requirements

• Determining the aircraft weight/mass and balance limits

• Ensuring that all flight planning requirements have been met

• Ensuring that the aircraft is airworthy, duly registered and that the documentation and operational information specified are onboard the aircraft

• Completing an aircraft pre-flight inspection as per the aircraft flight manual, before each departure
  Briefing the passengers in accordance with the requirements specified

• Operating the aircraft in accordance with procedures and aircraft limitations
  Completing all post flight duties as specified in the company operations manual, recording flight times and aircraft effects

Qualifications Include: 

• High School Diploma or GED required; Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related discipline preferred

• 100 hours of utility, military or medical helicopter operations experience is required
  Minimum 2 years relevant work experience is required. Relevant work experience will include aviation experience within a wire environment (utility, military, helicopter air ambulance operations) along with the ability to think strategically.

• Holds an FAA Commercial Helicopter License with an instrument rating

• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

• Able to understand the business criticality of their roles, the impact to each of the [Company] stakeholders, and develop business cases for strategic initiatives

• Innovative thinking to forge new concepts and facilitates unique creative solutions to risks. Ability to align utility aviation asset risk management with other business unit leader’s individual strategic goals

• Superior written and verbal communication skills

• Project management, risk management, or continuous improvement program experience is desired

• Able to work with multiple business entities and individuals at all levels across the organization

• Understanding of the power industry, to include grid layout, transmission, patrol operations, vegetation control, and storm response are desired, but not required

• Focus on risk management goal development is highly desired
  Requires extensive travel