Drone Pilot

Arcadis•Newark, NJ

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. Digital Asset Management are driving benefits to our clients through embedding our philosophy that ‘data is an asset’ across the lifecycle and breadth of digital assets. To enable this, Digital Asset Management group provide strategic, tactical, and technical services to our clients – guiding and supporting the implementation of asset management best-practice, tailored to meet their organisational needs. DAM are taking bolder steps in pursuing new clients, expanding our technical reach, and winning work as a collective. Therefore, successful candidates will play a pivotal role in Digital Asset Management, replenishing our team to provide business development and project support. Role Description This role is based in our Newark office and within our Digital Asset Management practice supporting the Data Services team to provide data in support of transportation infrastructure service providers in the UK and abroad such as National Highways and their contractors. There is also a focus on supporting structural inspection for various internal and external clients. We are seeking to engage an inquisitive, proactive, and agile thinking Drone Pilot to complement our team of data professionals. The role offers an opportunity to develop expertise covering in-depth technical knowledge of drone surveying, data, surveying, and asset management principles, and build into managing the implementation of solutions. The candidate will be capable and motivated at adapting to new challenges, demonstrating initiative to research and consult with others to find the best solution. Projects will be diverse in nature, from working on large scale surveying work via frameworks, to small, highly specialised drone tasks where new technologies will be tested prior to work commencing.

Requirements

Excellent drone flying experience, especially over or near infrastructure
Minimum 150 hours across multiple sizes of Drones, sub 250g – 9kg
Excellent understanding of health and safety compliance and CAA regulations
Experience of processing imagery and LiDAR flights to provide our clients with the best possible outputs
Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage in business development with clients internally and externally to help grow the drone practice
The flexibility to travel nationally, we operate all over the UK

Responsibilities

Drone based data capture using a variety of platforms and sensors
Planning of all flights, including risk mitigation and health and safety files
Testing of new equipment and technology to provide solutions for our clients needs
Business development and costing/bidding for opportunities
Engaging with the CAA wherever required including PDRA01 renewal and SORA applications
Maintenance of all logs pertaining to drone flights and pilots
Overseeing the competence of our additional pilots
Maintenance of all drone equipment
Perform supplier engagement and invoicing
Vehicle based data capture with a second surveyor/driver