Drone Pilot Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Current FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate, with recurrent training maintained throughout employment.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• At least 2 years of commercial drone operations experience.
• Self-motivated and able to work well with multidisciplinary teams in a deadline-driven environment.

Nice To Haves

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Surveying, Geomatics, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience on large commercial, industrial, or mission-critical construction sites.
• Hands-on experience with Skydio drones, such as Skydio X10 or Skydio Dock, and Skydio Cloud.
• Familiarity with photogrammetry and reality-capture software such as DroneDeploy, Pix4D, or Autodesk ReCap.
• Familiarity with construction management platforms such as Procore or Autodesk Construction Cloud.
• Experience obtaining LAANC authorizations and working under FAA waivers, such as BVLOS or operations over people.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute daily drone flights using Skydio drones, including autonomous and scheduled missions, to capture site progress, aerial photography, video, and reality-capture data.
• Complete scheduled flights, track them against the flight plan, and promptly communicate and reschedule missed or weather-delayed missions.
• Upload, process, and organize captured data daily to Skydio Cloud and designated project platforms; verify data integrity, completeness, file naming, and folder structure.
• Develop and maintain repeatable flight paths and capture locations to produce consistent, comparable progress imagery.
• Perform pre-flight and post-flight inspections; maintain flight logs; manage batteries, firmware updates, docking stations, and routine equipment maintenance.
• Monitor weather, airspace, NOTAMs, and site conditions; obtain LAANC authorizations or other FAA authorizations and waivers as required.
• Coordinate flights with superintendents, the site safety team, crane operators, and other trades to avoid conflicts with lifts, overhead work, and personnel on the ground.
• Follow owner and client site-security, confidentiality, and imagery-handling requirements, capturing, storing, and sharing sensitive areas only as authorized.
• Provide progress imagery and data for schedule updates, earned-value reporting, monthly owner reports, and progress meetings.
• Assist the VDC/BIM team with photogrammetry, orthomosaics, point clouds, and as-built comparisons against design models as required.
• Support quality control, safety, and site logistics with on-demand flights for inspections, incident documentation, stockpile and earthwork tracking, and roof and envelope reviews.
• Maintain an organized flight-data archive and produce periodic flight activity and data-delivery reports for project leadership.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Prescription safety glasses
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Dependent daycare FSA
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(k)
• Roth 401(k)
• After-Tax Roth In-Plan Conversion
• Paid vacation
• Paid sick time
• Paid holidays
• Tuition reimbursement
• Tickets at Work
• Paid identity theft protection with family coverage