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Aircraft Maintenance Engineers – FWSAR Program
Trenton, ON
Contractor Field Officer (CFO) Lead
Trenton, ON

About the Program

Join a Critical Program. Save Lives.

About Us

PAL Aerospace is a Canadian‑owned global aerospace and defence company, part of the Exchange Income Corporation (TSX: EIF) family.

Why Join

Benefits of working at PAL Aerospace

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Global Travel Privileges

Love to travel? Full-time PAL Aerospace employees get travel privileges with international airlines.
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Stay in Quinte West

No posting message, no IRP, no house hunt. Remain in Quinte West.
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PAL Scholarship Program

Junior and Post-Secondary awards for employee dependents.
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Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Allowing employees to share in the success of the company.
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Lifestyle Discounts

Including car rentals, select hotels, gym memberships, mobile communication packages, insurance, and more.
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Dental, Health & Vision Plans

Including services like massage therapy, psychology, and physiotherapy.
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Service Recognition Program

In recognition of long-standing employees.
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PAL Pension Program

Where employee and employer both contribute to assist you in saving for the future.
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Parental Top-Up Benefits

Enhance parental leave, offering peace of mind during this important life transition.
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A career path that goes somewhere.

Lead Hand, Crew Chief, Tech Lead, Quality, Production Control, Training, Engineering Liaison.
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Reservist friendly

If you're staying in the PRes or transferring to the Sup Res, we will work with your unit's training calendar.
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Employee Tuition Assistance Program

Offering financial support for further education.

In the News

The missions that matter.

First operational parachute rescue. Three weeks after going into service.

May 21, 2025 – Mount Kinney, B.C.
The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Victoria picked up a spot beacon from a single‑passenger aircraft that had crashed roughly 130 kilometres northeast of Prince George. A Kingfisher crew launched, located the wreck, and SAR Techs parachuted in approximately 10 kilometres south of the crash site to set up a temporary care site. The injured civilian pilot was stabilized, then transferred by Cormorant to hospital in Prince George. The aircraft had been in operational service for three weeks. The pilot in command called the modernization on the Kingfisher “night and day compared to what we used to fly previously.”

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300 kilometres off the Oregon coast. Joint with the U.S. Coast Guard.

July 24, 2025 – Pacific Ocean, ~300 km off Astoria, OR.
A Canadian mariner aboard a fishing vessel needed a medical evacuation, far enough offshore that the rescue required two countries working in lockstep. The Kingfisher flew top cover, kept eyes on the boat and the responding U.S. Coast Guard MH‑60 Jayhawk, talked the fishing crew through clearing the deck, and stood ready to back up the helicopter the entire way. The mariner was flown directly to a U.S. hospital and recovered. “The interoperability between us and the U.S. Coast Guard was excellent,” the Kingfisher’s aircraft commander said. “The rescue went off without a hitch.”

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Greenwood Kingfisher makes first active Northern SAR

December 10–11, 2025 – Canadian North, out of 14 Wing Greenwood.
Within weeks of standing up the Kingfisher at Greenwood, 413 Squadron put the aircraft to work on its first operational SAR mission in Canada’s North. A proud milestone for the fleet and a proof point of how quickly the Kingfisher comes online at each new base.

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John Wayne
FWSAR _______
PAL Aerospace is currently seeking Aviation Systems Technician (AvnTech) and Avionics Systems Technician (AVS Tech) roles. Both trades work directly alongside RCAF maintainers and AirPro colleagues on a shared flight line. This is more than a maintenance program, it is mission assurance with a growing critical team.

Testimonials

Real experiences from our technicians

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Sally Smith
Aviation Systems Technician (Former RCAF AvnTech), Trenton
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John Smith
Avionics Systems Technician (Former RCAF AVS Tech), FWSAR Program
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Sally Smith
Crew Chief, CC295 Program
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A man with a beard and short hair, wearing a flight suit with PAL Aerospace patches and a nametag reading G. Lalonde, stands in front of an aircraft in a black-and-white photo.
A man with a beard and short hair, wearing a flight suit with PAL Aerospace patches and a nametag reading G. Lalonde, stands in front of an aircraft in a black-and-white photo.

"I walked out of the hangar on my last day in uniform and walked back in two weeks later. Same aircraft, same job, just a better balance for my family. I didn’t have to start over."

Aircraft Maintenance Engineers – FWSAR Program
Trenton, ON
Contractor Field Officer (CFO) Lead
Trenton, ON