Purser Industries
UAV Technician
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Drone Assembly Technician — Purser Industries, Camberley
Full-time, on-site. £28–38,000
Let me save us both some time. If you want a job where you attend meetings about meetings, wear a lanyard, and describe yourself as a “passionate self-starter” while starting nothing — stop reading. Go and be passionate somewhere else. The primes are still hiring. They still have beanbags.
Still here? Good. Purser Industries builds target drones: aircraft designed to look, fly and behave like the real threat, so the people defending against it can practise on something honest. British to the rivets, ITAR-free, and sold to people who do not accept excuses, which is convenient, because neither do we.
Last time I posted this advert we were a small company with a big order book. Since then: the half-scale is in service and flying on UK ranges for MOD and private sector customers. The full-scale has launched. The jet-powered variant is in testing, and it is exactly as loud as you’d hope. We are still small, still profitable, and the accountant has stopped being frightened and started being tired. We need more people to build the things. Not manage the things. Not strategise about the things. Build them.
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The Work
- Assemble aircraft with your own two hands.
- Read a technical drawing and follow it — precisely, not approximately, because “approximately” is how aircraft become confetti, and at jet speeds the confetti travels further.
- Solder.
- Wire.
- Torque fasteners on components smaller than your patience.
- Test what you’ve built, inspect it like it owes you money, write down what you found, and when something is wrong you will say so — loudly, early, and to someone who can fix it.
- Keep your bench clean. Your workbench is your mind turned inside out, and I have no interest in employing chaos.
What You Bring
- Hands that know hand tools and power tools, and the sense to keep all ten fingers.
- Real mechanical assembly skill — small parts, small fasteners, zero tolerance for “near enough”.
- Soldering and basic wiring done in anger, in a real workshop, not a YouTube tutorial.
- The ability to follow drawings, build instructions, and procedures without freelancing.
- An eye for quality: inspect, test, document. Every unit. Every time.
- Aerospace, robotics, or electronics background — an advantage. An apprenticeship or vocational qualification — even better. Neither is worth a damn without graft.
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What You Get
- Honest pay for honest work.
- A workshop where things actually get made.
- Hardware you built flying within weeks of your hands leaving it — in front of customers who are trying their best to shoot it down.
- Three airframes on the go, one of them with a jet engine in it, and a production line that has outgrown the people on it.
- A company small enough that your work is visible and your excuses are too.
- The rarest thing in modern employment: the ability to point at something real and say “I made that.”
Talent is everywhere. Reliability is rare. Bring me both. Apply now. The production schedule wasn’t waiting last time, and it has not mellowed.
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