Senior Drone Agriculture Specialist needed at Pollock & Associates

• Drone Technology & Multispectral Imaging. An expert is required to lead precision-farming technology across large-scale agriculture cultivation, with a strong focus on drone operations, multispectral imaging, geospatial analytics, and data-driven crop optimisation.
• This role develops and executes advanced aerial survey programmes, interprets spectral data to provide crop-health insights, and builds analytical models to inform irrigation, nutrition, yield forecasting, and early stress detection.

Qualifications

• BSc in Agriculture, Agronomy, Remote Sensing, Geomatics, Environmental Science or Computer Science.
• Master’s degree advantageous (Precision Agriculture, GIS or Remote Sensing).
• Valid SACAA RPL; ROC-compliant operations.
• GIS certification is beneficial.

Experience & Skills

• Minimum 5 years in agricultural drone technology, remote sensing, or precision farming.
• Proven expertise with multispectral cameras (MicaSense/Parrot Sequoia) and processing tools (Pix4D, ENVI, Agisoft).
• Advanced Python/R coding for image analysis and machine learning.
• Strong agricultural insight, ideally with perennial or tropical crops.
• Ability to work in demanding field environments and interpret complex agronomic datasets.

Key Focus Areas

• Plan and execute compliant UAV flights, including multispectral, thermal and RGB imaging.
• Analyse and interpret drone-captured data (NDVI, crop-stress indicators, vigour indices).
• Build coding workflows (Python/R) for image processing, predictive modelling and dataset automation.
• Integrate GIS mapping for variable-rate applications, resource optimisation and field-level decision-making.
• Produce reports, dashboards and training for farm teams.