Airborne Geophysics Project Manager

Grow BlueCap and share in the exit

BlueCap is an established airborne-geophysics business with field operations dating to 2018. We are taking it through its next stage of growth with a future strategic sale in mind. We do not want a key team member to help create that additional value and receive only salary and project payments along the way.

Our team believes shared ownership is a stronger reason to grow a company than salary and short-term bonuses alone. People make better long-term decisions when they can share in the value they help create. That is why a company option is part of the intended path for the right long-term team member.

Once you have proved yourself in the role and delivered the agreed contribution, our intention is to discuss a company option. If it is granted and exercised, you acquire shares in BlueCap, become a shareholder and co-owner, and participate in a later company sale according to your shareholding.

The option is not automatic when you join, and no sale date or return is guaranteed. The path to ownership and a future exit is nevertheless a real part of this role, not a decorative bonus.

About the role

Your main job is conversation.

Talk with the client until the real survey problem is clear. Talk with our pilots, field crew and geophysicists until everyone understands the same scope. Keep those conversations connected while the project moves through quoting, field work, processing, delivery and payment.

This is not a solo role and not a lead-referral arrangement. You join the BlueCap core team, work on projects with us and take part in selected field missions. You may come from a larger company, a small operator or your own practice; once you are working on a BlueCap project, you are part of one team.

The right person enjoys speaking with technical people, asks direct questions and can turn a messy enquiry into a clear next step. Polished sales language is much less important than being credible, interested and easy to work with.

What you will do

• Pick up qualified enquiries and have the first useful conversation with the client.
• Work out what the client needs, what decision the data must support and whether BlueCap is the right fit.
• Bring our pilots and geophysicists into the conversation when their judgement is needed.
• Turn the survey area, method, access, timing and risks into a practical scope, schedule and quote with the team.
• Stay as the consistent client contact before mobilisation, during the mission, through processing and at delivery.
• Keep contracts, deposits, costs, variations, invoices, acceptance and payment moving.
• Build genuine working relationships with exploration managers, geophysicists and industry contacts.
• Join selected missions as part of the field team and bring what you learn back into future client conversations.
• Help improve the checklists, calculations and working systems we use every day.

There is no expectation that you attend every survey or remain in the field for every full mobilisation. Field involvement is agreed for each project.

The experience we need

• Experience managing survey, geophysics, mineral-exploration or similar technical field projects.
• A record of handling scope, schedule, budget, client communication and delivery.
• Good knowledge of Australian geography, remote travel and the realities of work around mining and exploration sites.
• Enough technical understanding to hold a useful conversation with geophysicists, engineers and field crews.
• Practical written and spoken English. Clear technical communication matters more to us than corporate sales language.
• Reliable follow-up: when you promise a call, answer or document, the client and team can depend on it.
• The judgement to recognise work that is not a good fit for BlueCap.
• Ability to meet the safety, medical and fitness requirements of agreed remote-area field work.

Experience with tenders, commercial contracts, airborne geophysics, RPAS or slung survey sensors is useful. A drone-pilot background and Remote Pilot Licence are not required.

Working at BlueCap

You will not have to reconstruct a project from disconnected email threads, spreadsheets and private messages. We built our own systems around the way our team actually quotes, plans, flies, processes and delivers surveys.

• BlueCap Survey Portal connects survey geometry, calculations, quoting, mission planning, field progress, processing and delivery.
• BlueCapCRM keeps the client history, decisions and follow-up with the project.
• BlueCapPhone connects calls and messages with the same client and project record.
• Our quoting tools handle much of the repetitive calculation, so suitable enquiries can move quickly.
• The systems help prepare drafts, call notes, contracts, translations and routine administration. You remain responsible for decisions and client commitments.

Because these are our systems, we can change them when the team finds a better way to work.

Field work

You do not come to a mission as a visitor. On agreed field jobs you work with the crew, exchange experience and see our aircraft, payloads, mission planning and field QA in real conditions. That makes later client conversations more credible because you have seen what BlueCap does differently.

In the field you will initially work as a Pilot Assistant and Field Technician under qualified BlueCap pilots. We provide the role-specific training. Approved travel, accommodation, meals, field equipment and operational support are covered by BlueCap.

Remote work can involve 4WD or small-aircraft travel, heat, dust, uneven ground, safe manual handling and time away from home. Each trip is discussed beforehand.

Employment and pay

We will agree the starting arrangement with the right person. It may be employment, contractor work or a combination of regular and project-based work. Pay may include a salary or base amount, project and field fees, and a separate performance bonus.

This is paid work and it is not commission-only. The role does not necessarily provide a full-time workload from the first day. If it begins part-time, suitable outside work may continue. During every BlueCap commitment, however, you work as part of the BlueCap team and the team must be able to rely on you.

Some candidates may already have useful equipment, methods, local knowledge or industry relationships. We are happy to discuss these, but they are not a condition of applying.

The company option described at the start of this page would be negotiated separately after the working relationship has proved itself. Its conditions, vesting, exercise price and treatment on a company sale would all be recorded in formal written agreements.

How we hire

1. Send us your background and two or three projects you personally managed or helped deliver.
2. Have an initial conversation about the role, your availability and what each side is looking for.
3. Work through a realistic survey enquiry with us: scope, risks, quote and delivery plan.
4. Speak with references and complete the usual checks.
5. Agree the working arrangement, pay and responsibilities in writing.

Candidates may request reasonable adjustments for discussions, onboarding or agreed field activities.

How to apply

Email [email protected] with the subject Airborne Geophysics Project Manager — Last First. Tell us briefly what types of projects you know best and include two or three examples of work you personally managed or delivered. You can also contact BlueCap corporate WhatsApp.