Uav/ Drone Pilot

Make a career out of your hobby for an essential service provider
- Join a company that heavily invests in sustainable cutting-edge technology
- Work with one of the top 3 best places to work in NZ

**_Contribute to Ventia’s exciting tech-based opportunity for a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) Drone Pilot to join our Power team_**

**What’s in it for me?**
- Work with a tight-knit young team with a passion for technology and introducing smarter ways to work
- Enjoy opportunities for growth as we win more contracts
- Join an exciting role with lots of variety supporting NZ essential services
- Enjoy a long-term contract with stable work and opportunities for career progression
- There’s nothing more important to us than keeping our people and the public safe.
- We look after each other and foster our people’s well-being.

This role provides you the opportunity to excel and build a career from your hobby while enjoying great compensation with allowances and a competitive rate for your hard work. This is an excellent opportunity for you to further develop your knowledge and competencies within an essential industry.

**About the Role**
Due to increased workload from consistent new projects, these are fixed-term roles with the potential to become permanent. We prefer experienced and qualified UAV/ Drone Pilots but are also open to hobbyists that want to make a career out of it The primary responsibilities will include:

- Creating flight plans and submitting them for approval to the chief pilot
- Flying a variety of UAVs, single rotors and multi-copter
- Creating statistical models of client’s assets
- Post processing data collected during any missions.

You will be working with a variety of stakeholders including working with the CAA and the Civil Aviation Act.

It is expected that you will ensure all missions run safely and smoothly utilizing risk assessments to identify any safety measures to put in place This is the only position like it Join this unique and exciting opportunity

**About You**
Ideally, this role will be based in Auckland as most of the team is situated there, but we are open to anyone outside Auckland as well. To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Previous experience in flying UAVs/ drones and working with GIS is an advantage
- CAA certificate in Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems is beneficial
- Advanced data analysis with Mission Planner, Visual Studio, R, or python exposure is a plus
- Excellent communication and IT skills
- Ability to work within a team and be flexible and adaptable in a complex environment
- Be willing to be upskilled
- Have a valid class 1 driver’s license - lots of opportunities for Travel (with allowance)

You will get training, portable skills, and career opportunities that will set you up for life APPLY NOW

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