Drone Station Manager

https://drone-port.in/; Vellore; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full training on fleet, software and安全

Own station with accountability

Job summary

Drone Port in Tamil Nadu invites applications for a Station Manager role. You will run a station end-to-end, managing fleet, pilots, customer queue and the site P&L, while aligning daily flying plans with weather and demand.

You will own safety, lead a team of five pilots and booking staff, and manage escalations with farmers and institutions. The ideal candidate holds an engineering or master's degree, strong quantitative skills and proven leadership.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or Master's degree is mandatory.
• Strong quantitative ability for capacity, cost and break-even arithmetic daily.
• Demonstrable leadership with proven standards.
• Technical confidence with drone systems, batteries, positioning and payloads.
• Clear Tamil and English, written and in difficult conversations.

Responsibilities

• Run one station end to end: fleet availability, pilot rosters, customer queue and site P&L.
• Plan daily flight schedule against weather, serviceability and demand.
• Own safety on the site including fatigue, chemical handling and incident reporting.
• Lead five pilots and booking staff: hiring, coaching, and maintaining standards.
• Respond to Park for utilization, rates, collections and uptime.
• Handle escalations from farmers, panchayats and institutional customers.
• Prepare the site for future services: survey, surveillance, emergency response and air-taxi ground handling.
• Maintain maintenance and spares discipline to ensure aircraft readiness.

Skills

Leadership

Quantitative skills

Drone systems knowledge

Tamil & English communication

Education

Engineering degree

Master's degree

Job description

The role

A station is a small business with aircraft in it. You will hold the fleet, five pilots, the customer queue and the P&L of one site — and you will answer for all four. This is not a supervisor's job with a better title. It is the person the district calls when something goes wrong at six in the morning, and the person the Park holds to the numbers at the end of the month. We are hiring for judgement and arithmetic, not for years served.

Key responsibilities

• Run one station end to end: fleet availability, pilot rosters, the customer queue and the site P&L.
• Hold the daily flying plan against weather, serviceability and demand — and decide what moves when they conflict.
• Own safety on the site. Fatigue, chemical handling, airspace clearance and incident reporting are yours, not the pilot's.
• Lead five pilots and the booking staff: hiring in, coaching, and holding a standard evenly.
• Answer to the Park for utilisation, realised rate per acre, collection and uptime.
• Handle escalations from farmers, panchayats and institutional customers without losing the account or the rule.
• Prepare the site for services beyond agriculture — survey, surveillance, emergency response and air-taxi ground handling as they arrive.
• Keep the maintenance and spares discipline that decides whether tomorrow has five serviceable aircraft or three.

Eligibility

• An engineering degree or a master's degree. This one is not negotiable.
• Strong quantitative ability — you will be doing capacity, cost and break-even arithmetic daily, often under time pressure.
• Demonstrable leadership: you have held people to a standard and can show how.
• Technical confidence with drone systems, batteries, positioning and payloads — enough to challenge a pilot's judgement, not merely accept it.
• Clear Tamil and English, in writing and in a difficult conversation.
• Willingness to be based in any of the fifteen districts.
• No prior experience is required, and none is expected.

What you get

• ₹10,00,000 per year, approximately ₹90,000 in hand each month.
• Full training on the fleet, the software and the safety system before you take a site.
• A station of your own to run, with the authority that goes with the accountability.

How the process runs

• Verify your mobile number.
• Take the test on your own phone. It takes about thirty minutes.
• You get your result.
• If you clear it, we call you and invite you to a selection day.