About the role
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- Understanding of Hybrid-VTOL UAVs Flight envelope.
- Fixed wing and Multirotor manual flying experience
- Understanding of Pixhawk and arducopter/PX4 firmware.
- Understanding of Flight Planning and Ground Control Stations along with planning for alternate landing and other safety related operations.
- Some experience with hands on troubleshooting UAVs Electro-mechanical systems.
WHAT YOUR ROLE WILL BE
- To plan, co-ordinate, execute and document flight test activities,
- Testing different subsystems with the drone delivery aspect in mind.
- Setup and test new hardware and software.
- Work closely with the engineering design and certification teams to ensure all planned flight test activity meets requirements and company timescales.
- Coordinate with the flight test instrumentation section to ensure all instrumentation, data recording and retrieval devices are available for test flights.
- Maintain documentation and data management for all flight test activity.
- Review supporting safety assessments, flight test documentation, operating procedures and limitations.
- Participate in the development of aircraft flight manuals, check lists and related publications.
- Oversee coordination from design stage, creation of all maintenance/technical publications for aircraft and system programs;
- Undertake Quality Checks, correlation with design, certification agencies;
- Undertake ground training classes for the ground crew/engineers on specific areas such as handling, procedures, performance etc;
- Design a Flight Test program by working with the team to identify requirements
- Produce post-flight reports, including analyzing flight logs and crunching numbers
- Write flight ops related documentation
WHAT YOU'LL BRING
- Ability to Identify, Evaluate and Record Risks and implement the new findings.
- Excitement to improve upon Drone Operations procedures and brainstorm new ideas.
- Good consistent communication to ensure the team is focused on realizing the Safety Standards.
- Excellence in operational safety.
- Incredible management skills.
- A highly motivated and goal-oriented team.
- An opportunity to deploy and test Next-Generation of Drone delivery vehicles.
- The chance to have a positive impact through your work.