Superior Airways..a different approach to job posting

[Pat Richard]

Date:25 November 2010
Position:AME M1
Company Name:Superior Airways Ltd
Contact Person:Chad Bruce
Street Address:PO Box 1448
City:Red Lake
State/Province:Ontario
Country:Canada
Web address: http://www.superiorairways.com
Email address: superiorairways@hotmail.com
Send Resume By: Email
Aircraft Types:C206, PA31, C208B

Job Description:
Superior Airways is looking for an AME to join our 5 person maintenance department. Working from our new 12,000 sq ft hangar, you will be responsible for routine maintenance, inspections, supervision and instruction of apprentices. A rotation schedule and shared housing is also available. Schedule is flexible. We offer an assortment of new tooling to ensure you can be productive and proud of your work. Salary range from $25 to $35 per hour depending on experience. We are a small but rapidbly growing company and we're looking for strong team players with a sense of humour and ability to share our vision. We can be very flexible to accomodate any requests on scheduling and will keep all enquiries confidential.

Salary:see job description
Closing Date:30 December 2010

This probably is the first ad I've seen looking for an AME which actually hits most of the right points with me.

Besides the usage of the overused/cheesy "teamplayer" "vision" terms, and my personal preference of wanting to see $40ish an hour offered, they've actually spent a good portion of their ad describing what they will offer/do for you, where every other ad just lists long lists of what they want. How refreshing.

I never worked for Superior, nor have I have I even heard of them before, so I'm not endorsing them, but if I was in the market, and I didn't hate Navajos, I would probably send in a resume just based on their ad.


Sweet Jeebus...... did I just say something mostly positive with regards to this biz..???

[lupin]

Up to 35$/hour seems pretty good for a small outfit flying navajos.

I agree the posting is very well done, whoever posted it seems to have a good idea on how to attract good candidates, maybe a company with an HR department?

[longjon]

I agree its a well written add. Not by some over educated university graduate HR person who has never worked a real job in their lives.

[Big Pistons Forever]

I bet the add was written by the DOM. It's the adds written by some wannabe MBA weinie in HR that are full of the management psycobabble.

[Cat19]

I agree with longjon and BPF, seems like the ad was written by a person who has actually worn the coveralls and had their hands dirty.

[. ._]

We're sorry you don't sound like task-oriented, self-starting team players. I don't believe our organization could come forward with any synergies with you. We'll have to vet some more human resources.

Kindest regards,
-istp B.A., Dip. Av. Tech, full of B.S.

[Big Pistons Forever]

We're sorry you don't sound like task-oriented, self-starting team players. I don't believe our organization could come forward with any synergies with you. We'll have to vet some more human resources.

Kindest regards,
-istp B.A., Dip. Av. Tech, full of B.S.

Damn ! And I was sure my praoctive approach to maximizing the enterprise value while embracing the corporate vision going forward made me the ideal candidate to augment a right sized profit centre.

[Pat Richard]

We're sorry you don't sound like task-oriented, self-starting team players. I don't believe our organization could come forward with any synergies with you. We'll have to vet some more human resources.

Kindest regards,
-istp B.A., Dip. Av. Tech, full of B.S.

Damn ! And I was sure my praoctive approach to maximizing the enterprise value while embracing the corporate vision going forward made me the ideal candidate to augment a right sized profit centre.

Exactly where I was coming from, but put forth much more eloquently,

Up to 35$/hour seems pretty good for a small outfit flying navajos.

I agree, it is, but Im greedy.

[. ._]

We're sorry you don't sound like task-oriented, self-starting team players. I don't believe our organization could come forward with any synergies with you. We'll have to vet some more human resources.

Kindest regards,
-istp B.A., Dip. Av. Tech, full of B.S.

Damn ! And I was sure my praoctive approach to maximizing the enterprise value while embracing the corporate vision going forward made me the ideal candidate to augment a right sized profit centre.

[flyinggreasemonkey]

You want $40\hr for a non-management position with a company flying 4 aircraft? That is the second most greedy statement regarding AME wages next to the guy who wanted half a million to be crew chief for the OPP, which operates only 3 planes.

[Pat Richard]

Are you saying one must be in management with at least 4+ a/c to earn $40 a/hr?
I have made/make that much doing light automotive repairs in my home shop. I already admitted that's($35) an ok wage, but I wouldn't do it for less, which is quite likely what they will offer. Fair enough, but not enough, at least for me and most likely others.
Still, a good ad, and the effort to emphasize what they are willing to do to accommodate the right person is admirable. Im betting they will be successful in their search if they honor their offers.

I also am one to agree that the $80Gish for the OPP posting is low for what they are demanding, regardless of how great the pension plan is.
Job security? Maybe, but it's not like the government never makes cutbacks, so the scenario potentially exists where you could quite possibly inherit more workload from a position(s) that have been dissolved, with no pay increase. That happens all the time in government.

That position should be minimum $100G to start for a qualified, competent individual. The current offer is good for a quality AME.

I have to say, judging by your comments, you sound like the type who would be/is comfortable at $50Gish a/year, ACA'd, and are in possession of a limited sense of hah-hah.

Did you really think my "greedy" and the other "500-600G" comment were dead serious??

Oh...you did, didn't you?....