Remote Drone Pilot for Reality Capture & BIM Data

Jacobs; Greenville (SC); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 104,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Stock purchase program

Hybrid work model

PPTO

Job summary

Jacobs seeks a technically focused Drone Pilot who can safely transform aerial data into practical project information. You will support construction, BIM/VDC, reality capture, and digital delivery, turning imagery into dependable deliverables for design and construction teams.

The ideal candidate holds a FAA Part 107 certificate, 3+ years of drone experience, strong safety awareness, and flexibility to travel. We offer hybrid work with offices and sites across the United States.

Qualifications

• Current FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate.
• 3+ years of experience operating commercial drones, preferably in construction, engineering, surveying, industrial, infrastructure, or facility environments.
• Experience developing flight plans and executing UAS operations around active construction or industrial sites.
• Working knowledge of photogrammetry, orthomosaics, 3D meshes, point clouds, digital elevation models, and volumetric data.
• Understanding of BIM/VDC coordination, design documentation, and field verification workflows.

Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct commercial drone flights in accordance with FAA regulations, company policies, project requirements, and site-specific safety procedures.
• Maintain required pilot credentials, aircraft registrations, operating records, pre-flight documentation, and flight logs.
• Perform pre-flight inspections and verify aircraft, batteries, sensors, firmware, remote-controller settings, and data-storage capacity.
• Operate drones safely in active construction, industrial, and data center environments while maintaining situational awareness and required separation distances.
• Coordinate flight windows, airspace restrictions, site access, security requirements, and operational constraints with project stakeholders.
• Use appropriate visual observers, spotters, and site communication protocols when required.
• Respond appropriately to changing weather, site conditions, equipment issues, and other operational risks.
• Capture high-quality aerial imagery, video, 360-degree imagery, and other UAS data for design, construction, commissioning, and operational use cases.
• Develop repeatable flight plans and capture standards for progress documentation, quantity verification, site logistics, existing-condition documentation, and turnover verification.
• Coordinate ground control points, checkpoints, survey control, and site reference information when required for accurate mapping and model production.
• Integrate drone data with terrestrial laser scanning, BIM models, GIS data, schedules, and digital twin platforms, and asset-information systems.
• Publish or transfer approved deliverables to ACC, project document-management systems, GIS platforms, or other designated environments.
• Process and quality-check drone imagery and reality-capture data using approved software and project workflows.
• Maintain organized project archives and ensure raw data, processed data, reports, and final deliverables can be retrieved for future reference.
• Support construction progress tracking, workface planning, site logistics, schedule reviews, and 4D coordination activities.
• Provide aerial documentation to support installation verification, quality reviews, safety observations, commissioning, punch-list resolution, and turnover.
• Collaborate with project teams to define flight objectives, required accuracy, image coverage, frequency, and deliverable formats before mobilization or fieldwork.

Skills

FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot

3+ years UAS ops

Flight planning

Data processing

Safety awareness

Tools

DJI Enterprise

DJI Pilot 2

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Pix4D/DroneDeploy/Propeller

Revit/Civil 3D/Navisworks

ArcGIS

Job description

Jacobs seeks a technically focused Drone Pilot who can safely transform aerial data into practical project information. You will support construction, BIM/VDC, reality capture, and digital delivery, turning imagery into dependable deliverables for design and construction teams.

The ideal candidate holds a FAA Part 107 certificate, 3+ years of drone experience, strong safety awareness, and flexibility to travel. We offer hybrid work with offices and sites across the United States.