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Kenn Borek Air

Two things could happen. option 1 You can rotate and travel with the company, get payed terribly, be forced to do some questionable things to the aircraft because theres barley any logistics to help you and be extended up to 9 weeks because there's no one to replace you because everyone is realizing how terrible this company is and when your sending emails to ask when your coming home your emails will get screened and ignored. Option 2.  You can work Monday to Friday in a hangar full of negativity and toxicity from the majority of its employees. Plus get the luxury to work under managers that micro manage and lead hands that get hard ons watching you fail. 
The pay is way below industry standard. Im talking 20's an hour as an ACA. Only come to kenn borek to get your license or maybe a chance to go to Antarctica. DO NOT HOPE FOR AN END CAREER IN THIS COMPANY AND DO NOT STAY LONGER THEN YOU SHOULD. You will only find dissappointment in the end.

I was a pilot for them out of Resolute Bay and Iqualiut.  I was a captain there and was hired as a direct entry captain.   The pilots were fun to hang out with and we did a lot together when we living up north.  It was a good culture.   The management though is a joke, they have no idea what they are doing, the training pilot was an idiot who could barely fly and knew nothing of ride standards.  They were way beyond backwards and they try to bully you into doing dumb things, sometimes dangerous, sometimes because they don't know what they are doing.    I was very happy leave there and go to a real airline and fly proper planes.   One of the planes we flew was always having problems, they never did anything about it, they never took it serious and something very serious happened to it after i left for another airline.  What a horrible waste.

Got up early to to go to work I enjoy working with my co-workers.
Learned a lot every day it was a challenge and there was something different to do on a day to day including travel to other places, Float changes could be hard to do sometimes. The hardest part was probably organizing rescue missions like watching C-GSJB sink tru ice and not be able to do anything. Also lots of engine changes, hot sections wings removal/installation rigging, MLG change rigging, The most enjoyable where trips to Costa Rica and Panama looking after a float Plane from Golfito to Juares.

This was a toxic work environment characterized by constant micromanagement, excessive pressure, and a lack of appreciation. Employees were made to feel incompetent despite consistently delivering results.

Leadership needs to seriously rethink how they treat and support their teams. Without changes in culture and management approach, employee morale and retention will continue to suffer.

I was given very little training or support for my role.  I reached out to all forms of management for feedback on a regular basis.  For the entirety  of my employment I was told by management "not to give up on the company", "you've got this", "you're being too hard on yourself", "you are doing a fabulous job".  Only to be relieved of my position with no reason.  I am still trying to get answers regarding my final payout.

You have to pretend to be busy even you do have nothing to do. For twin otters there are not too much work to do during the maintenance slot. Sometimes as an AME apprentice you need to drive pilots or AMEs to crew house or airport using your own car. What good is benefits are pretty good and you have the chance to travel to other bases to work on DC3, King air or twin otters. 

Very fast paced environment, long work days with a great team and support from the whole team including upper management. Working in such a fast paced environment has taught me that you need to have great commination skills and a great team working together to get the task at hand completed and within a minimal time frame.

Kenn Borek has a relaxed atmosphere that understands the need for balance between work life and home life. with a large amount of aircraft the company has been stable for years. One of the more exciting aspects of the job is the availability to travel with the aircraft on one of many contracts.

started with checking the aircrafts that come down from up north and fix them then continue with installing new equipment on other aircrafts. The managment at Kenn Borek Air Ltd. was very out of touch with the work being down.  At Kenn Borek Air Ltd. I learned at lot more about how to troubleshoot systems.

Lots of hands on here even as an apprentice. Unfortunately most of the talent has left the company so it’s mostly a lot of apprentices with no proper guidance. Good place to see the world but don’t ever expect to have a set schedule 

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