AiRE-G3 Pilot (Group 3 UAS Remote Pilot)/Industrial Engineer

EFUSIONX, Inc. • Full-time • Harrodsburg, KY, US • $69k - $79k / year • 2d ago

Job Summary

The AiRE-G3 Pilot plans, launches, flies, and recovers the AiRE=G3 solar-electric fixed-wing unmanned aircraft. The role covers mission planning, in=flight monitoring of energy and systems, contingency handling, and post-flight documentation in support of training, demonstrations, customer operations, and developmental test. The Industrial Engineer supports a complex portfolio of programs to help plan, design, evaluate, and improve the performance of products, equipment, processes, and facilities. Core competencies for the Industrial Engineer include intellectual agility, ability to develop innovative solutions, teamwork, performance-orientation, and industry expertise.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

· Plan and brief missions: route, altitude blocks, loiter, launch and recovery, contingency fields, lost-link behavior, and energy budget for the solar-electric system.

· Conduct preflight and postflight inspections of airframe, motor pods, solar arrays, batteries, avionics, datalink, and ground control station.

· Launch, fly, and recover the AiRE-G3 within approved procedures, including manual and automated modes.

· Monitor propulsion, power generation, battery state of charge, thermal limits, link quality, and payload status throughout the flight.

· Execute contingency procedures for lost link, weather deterioration, power anomalies, airspace conflicts, and abnormal landings.

· Maintain crew resource management with the internal pilot, sensor operator, and ground crew.

· Complete flight logs, discrepancy reports, and mission debriefs. Report anomalies that affect airworthiness or mission effectiveness.

· Support training of additional crew, customer familiarization flights, and demonstration events.

· Comply with applicable regulations, Certificates of Waiver or Authorization or other authorizations, company operations manuals, and range or customer rules.

· Assist with procedure updates, checklists, and lessons learned as the platform matures.

· Test and evaluate performance of products, equipment, materials, or systems.

· Prepare test plans and reports that document project activities and testing results and recommend changes for product and process improvement.

· Set up and maintain project files and records.

· Utilize professional judgment, critical thinking skills and research to improve program processes and resolve issues affecting program performance.

· Provide clear recommendations to Product, Engineering, and Executive teams.

· Demonstrate responsible time management and a willingness to embrace continuous improvement culture.

· Present a positive professional image and facilitate a team-based working environment.

· Follow all company policies and safety procedures.

· Perform other duties assigned (to be less than 10% of the responsibilities listed above).

· Travel will be required.

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

· Demonstrated experience as pilot-in-command or internal pilot on fixed-wing Group 2 or Group 3 UAS, or equivalent manned fixed-wing PIC time plus UAS transition.

· Working Knowledge of the National Airspace System, sectional charts, NOTAMs, weather products, and see-and-avoid or detect-and-avoid concepts as applied to UAS.

· Ability to read and apply aircraft flight manuals, checklists, and emergency procedures.

· Willingness to travel to test sites, ranges, and customer location, including early starts and extended duty days.

· Eligibility to work in the United States. Ability to obtain any customer or range access required for assigned missions.

· Ability to obtain security clearance “secret”

· Experience with solar-electric or hybrid-electric UAS, or with long-endurance fixed wing platforms where energy management is a primary pilot task.

· Prior military or civil UAS operations (RQ-7, RQ-11/20. ScanEagle, Puma, or comparable fixed-wing systems).

· Experience with ground control stations, autopilot modes, and mission-planning software.

· Experience supporting developmental test, customer demonstrations, or government UAS programs.

· Familiarity with beyond-visual-line-of-sight concepts and waiver processes.

· Two to three years relevant work experience in a manufacturing environment.

· Skilled in collaborating with matrixed teams.

· Ability to collaborate with production personnel and engineers.

· Strong writing and presentation skills.

· Experience working with Cloud Computing systems and environments.

· Excellent communication and people skills.

· Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize effectively.

· Excellent critical thinking skills.

· Strong diligence and maintain high accuracy standards.

Education and Licenses

· Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in industrial engineering or related field such as manufacturing or mechanical engineering.

· FAA Remote Pilot Certificate (Part 107), current.

· Instrument or commercial pilot certificate, or formal aviation safety training.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. Work outdoor in varying weather during launch, recovery, and ground handling. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers; handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must have the ability to lift and handle aircraft components and group equipment within team limits. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. Sustained attention during long-endurance missions, with scheduled crew rotations. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.

Note

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities.

Pay: $69,000.00 - $79,000.00 per year

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