UAS Instructor: Commercial Drone Training

Location:

Hybrid/Remote depending on home location – Leeds LS1, with travel to specialist training sites across the UK

Salary:
Up to £42,000 per year

Contract:

Full-time, Permanent

This isn't just another drone instructor role.

If you want to spend every day delivering the same classroom course from the same slide deck, this probably isn't the role for you.

At COPTRZ, our instructors work across commercial drone training, advanced flight operations, specialist aircraft, BVLOS, surveying, mapping, technical handovers and bespoke customer programmes.

One week you could be delivering an RPC-L1. The next, helping a commercial client understand a new aircraft platform, delivering specialist CPD, supporting an advanced operational exercise or helping us develop the next generation of UAS training.

We're looking for someone who wants to become one of the best commercial UAS instructors in the industry and we'll invest in helping you get there.

You'll join an experienced training team delivering practical, technically credible training to everyone from new remote pilots to experienced commercial operators.

Your role will include:

• Delivering CAA-regulated UAS training, including A2 CofC, GVC and RPC programmes
• Delivering ground school, flight training, examinations and practical flight assessments
• Coaching pilots in flight planning, operational decision-making and safe UAS operations
• Delivering advanced CPD and specialist commercial training
• Supporting training involving BVLOS and more complex UAS operations
• Carrying out customer handovers and technical training on commercial drone platforms
• Delivering courses in areas such as mapping, surveying, automated flight and data capture
• Running webinars, online training and customer workshops
• Helping develop new course content, training assets and practical exercises
• Working directly with commercial, public-sector and specialist customers
• Helping us continually improve how professional drone pilots are trained

This is a role where you'll be expected to bring ideas, challenge how things are done and help shape the future of the COPTRZ Training Academy.

You don't necessarily need to arrive as a fully qualified instructor.

We're more interested in finding someone with credible real-world UAS experience, strong technical knowledge and the ability to engage and develop other people.

You may currently be:

• A commercial drone operator
• A UAS instructor or assessor
• A military or emergency-services UAS operator
• A surveyor or technical operator using drones professionally
• An experienced remote pilot looking to move into training
• A trainer from another technical industry with strong UAS experience

What matters is that you understand drones beyond simply flying them and have the ambition to develop into a highly capable professional instructor.

• BVLOS operational experience, civilian or military
• CAA A2 CofC, GVC or RPC-L1
• Teaching or assessing qualifications such as Level 3 AET
• Commercial UAS operational experience
• Experience with DJI and other enterprise drone platforms
• Mapping, photogrammetry or surveying workflows
• Automated and mission-planned flight
• Specialist sensors and payloads
• Experience training customers or colleagues on technical equipment

If you already have strong UAS or training experience but haven't yet collected every qualification, we can help you get there.

Depending on your existing experience, COPTRZ can support and fund qualifications including:

• A2 CofC
• GVC
• RPC-L1
• Teaching qualifications
• Assessor qualifications
• Specialist manufacturer and platform training

We want to develop instructors for the long term, not simply recruit someone to fill a classroom.

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