Drone Videographer

Role and work arrangement

Drone operations and visual production

• Plan and execute aerial and ground filming and photography; prepare shot lists, capture plans, and schedules.
• Operate professional drones, cameras, gimbals, and stabilisation systems; obtain necessary permissions and site access approvals.
• Assess weather, risks, and safety; capture 360-degree imagery and maintain organised, labelled, archived, and backed-up media.
• Edit corporate, progress, engineering, and project videos; perform colour grading, sound treatment, graphics, and final exports.

Scanning and point-cloud processing

• Plan and perform laser scanning for as-built documentation, scan-to-BIM, and project quality checks.
• Operate terrestrial, SLAM/handheld, and mobile scanners from at least two major OEM ecosystems, such as Leica, FARO, Trimble, or NavVis.
• Use survey controls and align data to the required project coordinate system; check coverage and arrange re-scans for gaps.
• Register and geo-reference point clouds; review RMSE, overlap, residuals, tie-point accuracy, and SLAM loop closure where applicable.
• Clean, filter, segment, unify, decimate, and colourise point clouds; identify errors, noise, reflections, moving objects, and alignment discrepancies.

BIM delivery, equipment, and safety

• Use Autodesk ReCap Pro, CloudCompare, and relevant OEM software to prepare and validate point-cloud datasets.
• Support point-cloud use in Revit and Navisworks and deliver files in E57, RCP/RCS, LAS/LAZ, PTS/PTX, or vendor-native formats.
• Coordinate with BIM and engineering teams; publish data to the designated CDE with consistent naming, coordinates, metadata, traceability, and backups.
• Maintain and inspect equipment and software; comply with UAE drone regulations, approvals, site HSE, BIM plans, and data procedures.

Required qualifications

• At least 6 years of relevant experience, with practical competence in both drone videography and laser scanning/point-cloud registration.
• Degree or diploma in film, cinematography, media production, multimedia, civil engineering, geomatics, surveying, geoinformatics, or a related discipline.
• Portfolio or showreel showing aerial and ground filming, photography, editing, colour grading, and individual contributions.
• Relevant drone pilot qualifications, flight-regulation knowledge, and experience with professional drones, cameras, gimbals, and stabilisers.
• Experience with scanners from at least two major OEM ecosystems, scanning and registration software, and point-cloud processing.
• Understanding of survey control, coordinates, geo-referencing, RMSE, quality checks, scan coverage, and point-cloud formats.
• Working knowledge of Revit, Navisworks, point-cloud integration, scan-to-BIM, and model verification.
• Proficiency in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or equivalent editing tools; understanding of camera, lighting, audio, colour, and media management.
• Strong communication, coordination, documentation, and time-management skills; ability to work independently on sites and travel as required.

Preferred qualifications

• Vendor training or certification in professional scanning and registration platforms is preferred.
• Experience in aviation, infrastructure, industrial facilities, transportation, large construction, as-built documentation, scan-to-BIM, or project QA/QC is preferred.
• Knowledge of total stations, GNSS, coordinate transformations, datums, Autodesk Construction Cloud or similar CDEs, ISO 19650, or USIBD accuracy specifications is preferred.
• After Effects, Photoshop, motion graphics, visual storytelling, UAV photogrammetry, 360-degree imagery, 3D Gaussian Splatting, Python, or Dynamo are advantageous.
• Previous UAE media, production, engineering, or construction industry experience is preferred.

Equipment and candidate materials

• Professional production or reality-capture equipment ownership is preferred, but does not replace required qualifications, regulatory approvals, or site permissions.
• Candidates should provide an equipment list with make, model, specifications, ownership, and availability.
• Submit a CV, portfolio or showreel, examples of scanning or reality-capture work, details of individual contributions, licences or certifications, software and scanner platforms, point-cloud formats, survey-control methods, and equipment information.

Performance measures

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