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Drone Mapping Specialist
Location
New Zealand
Posted
10 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Drone Mapping Specialist
Halter
• Travelling to dairy farms across your region to complete drone mapping. • Coordinating farm visits around weather, farmer availability, travel time, and deployment priorities. • Liaising directly with farmers to confirm visit times, access requirements, and what will happen on farm. • Capturing consistent, high-quality aerial imagery that can be used to create ortho maps for paddock mapping and farm setup. • Uploading, logging, and checking mapping data accurately after each visit. • Representing Halter professionally while working on customer farms. • Other farm based activities from time to time.
Job Requirements
- A confident communicator who can build rapport quickly with farmers and represent Halter well on farm.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to plan your own days and manage multiple farm visits across a region.
- Reliability and a strong work ethic, with the ability to follow through on commitments and keep deployment work moving.
- The ability to work independently once trained, while keeping the wider team updated.
- Strong attention to detail when capturing, uploading, and logging mapping data.
- Practical problem-solving skills when plans change due to weather, access, equipment, or farm conditions.
- A full, clean driver's licence.
- The ability to travel and stay away from home 2–3 nights per week.
Benefits
- Work that genuinely matters.
- Spectacular people solving hard problems.
- You'll grow here.
- This isn't easy, and we love that it's hard.
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