Drone Test Pilot
Passionate about Reinventing Forestry!
Does your passion lie in the great outdoors, aviation and cutting-edge technology? Imagine combining these to revolutionize how we manage and take care of our forests. Are you ready to explore new horizons and take to the skies in a role contributing to Reinventing Forestry?
What we do isn’t easy - but we’re doing it! By moving forestry above the tree tops, we tend to all values of the forests. We provide a non-invasive land management operation with our lightweight and high-capacity electric drones. As a Drone Test Pilot at AirForestry, you are more than a pilot - you are part of something truly groundbreaking. You play a pivotal role in our Flight Test team in planning, executing and evaluating the flight test process. This places great demands on you in many aspects, such as being able to work closely with different stakeholders within our R&D organization, understand the importance of good and safe communication and logistics, as well as having a good technical understanding of and respect for our system as a whole.
In everything you do, you are guided by the word ‘safety’ - both for yourself and others. It defines your entire way of working and is something you never compromise on.
Examples of what you’ll be doing as Drone Test Pilot:
- Planning Flight tests, meaning specifying purpose and desirable results together with R&D, planning for suitable resources and coordinating the logistics around the entire testing process.
- Executing specified flight tests by operating our drones, ensuring safety procedures are followed using your strong spatial skills.
- Evaluation is the key to success - you and the team are continuously reviewing both individual test results, as well as our whole testing process, ensuring that we test best practice. Self-assessment is something that comes naturally to you.
You have:
- Experience from relevant Aerial Vehicles, such as UAV/UAS (drone or model aircraft), private pilot and/or commercial aviation.
- Experience from working in a safety focused organization, with a keen understanding of the perspective ‘safety for yourself and others’.
- Interest in and experience from some kind of relevant field work.
- Good overall technical understanding, can be focused towards either software, mechanics or electronics.
- Experience from and appreciation for hands-on work.
- Fluent in Swedish and English, with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Nice to have:
- Depending on your background and interest, there’s a good possibility to contribute to our R&D within your field.
- Degree in Engineering or other relevant field, such as software, mechanics, mechatronics or electronics.
As a hands-on, problem solving and outdoorsy person - you’ll fit right in with the rest of us! Good words to describe us are quality oriented, problem solving, fact-based, kind and open - and we ask lots of questions. We are office first and Uppsala-based. This is your chance to take your skills to new heights - literally - while making a tangible impact on the environment. Ready to fly into the future of Forestry? Let’s take off!
- Department
- Technology & Product
- Locations
- Uppsala
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
- Employment type
- Full-time
Uppsala
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Set the strategy and see the big picture 🙋♀️
We do an annual 2-day offsite activity and quarterly strategy workshops with the entire team. We've got a transparent organization where everyone contributes to setting the best path forward.
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Ownership - Options 🦄
Through our options programs, all employees are invited to be company owners and participate in the value we create together. -
Great labs and offices 🥽🪴
We have beautiful offices with labs and test spaces, an indoor flight space, and nearby forests for testing in the Uppsala area. -
30 days vacation plus 17 bank holidays/year, parental pay supplement 🏝
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Flexible work hours 🕰
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4,000 kr annual wellness allowance (friskvårdsbidrag) 🏊♂️ 🏋️♀️
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Occupational pension (Tjänstepension) and health insurance 💪
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Forestry school with our CEO and Cofounder Olle! 🌲
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Hassle-free personal budget for anything that will make your work better 🎧
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Building a world class flight organization 🛸🚁
We have a leadership and communication coaching program which includes a professional Boeing 737 flight simulator 😎
Reinvent forestry with our great team
We have a world class organization in scale up, technology and flight, to build a new way to manage forests to help solve the climate and biodiversity crises. And we’re having a lot of fun doing it!
As a hands-on, experimental, and outdoorsy bunch, we focus on getting things done. We're quality-oriented, problem-solving, fact-based, kind, open and ask lots of questions. Sounds like a group you’d have a good time with?
There’s currently about 33 of us and we are always on the lookout for the best and brightest!
About AirForestry
We build cutting edge forestry technology that helps solve the climate and biodiversity crises. Our mission is to contribute to a substantial positive change by creating better forests for everyone.
Forestry is a long-term project. What is harvested today was tended by previous generations, and what is planted today will be harvested by our grandchildren.
AirForestry provides solutions for thinning forests with the help of
electric drones that can harvest trees from the air. AirForestry reduces
the need for access roads, eliminates the consumption of diesel, and
provides a better working environment for those who work in the forest.
We have paying customers and great partnerships. See our main website for more information.
Drone Test Pilot
Passionate about Reinventing Forestry!
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