EMB ERJ 145 ER/LR
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Flight Crew Returned To Departure Airport; Flight Crew Returned To Gate; General Flight Cancelled / Delayed; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft
Climbing through approximately 4;000 ft. after takeoff from Runway XXL in ZZZ; we got a PTRIM MAIN INOP warning message. I called out the warning and asked the Pilot Flying how the trim felt. We verified both main pitch trims did not work and then used the backup pitch trim to alleviate the pitch forces on the yoke. As soon as I verified the Pilot Flying was good flying the aircraft; I started to run the QRH. ZZZ departure gave us a further climb to which I responded that we were needing to work out an issue and asked to level off and get a vector as we were most likely going to return to ZZZ. They had us level off and then shortly after descend back to 8;000 ft. and told us to continue on our present heading. Following the QRH we never engaged the autopilot and hand flew the aircraft using the backup pitch trim. After contacting Dispatch we decided to return to ZZZ but needed to burn excess fuel down to below our max landing weight as we were approximately 2;000 lbs. over. Coordinated with Dispatch and ATC to burn the fuel and then came in to land in ZZZ uneventfully and taxied to the gate.PTRIM MAIN INOP warning message. After warning message popped up; Pilot Flying said trim seemed slow to respond right before failure.
ERJ Captain reported that a pitch trim failure during climb resulted in a return to the departure airport.