Requirement of Personnel for PADD Division, QCI
- Background

QCI is the Scheme Owner of the Certification Scheme for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (CSUAS), which was notified in official gazette by the Ministry of Civil Aviation on 26 January 2022. The scheme has since been revised and its scope enhanced, evolving into a Type based certification framework that covers Visual Line of Sight (VLOS) and Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) UAS operations, aligned with ICAO's Levels of Autonomy.
- About the Team

The Project Analysis & Documentation Division (PADD) at QCI operates numerous voluntary and regulatory driven certification schemes across sectors including Agriculture, Cybersecurity, Drones, Emerging Technologies, and Personnel Competence.

Our work at PADD, QCI spans the following domains:

a) Designing and developing certification schemes aligned with international best practice, formulating technical standards, and creating a certification ecosystem in partnership with industry, regulators, ministries, academia and other relevant stakeholders;

b)



Operating those schemes at a national scale through conformity assessment bodies; and

c) Diversifying into current and emerging domains by building an ecosystem of industry, laboratories, academia and regulators around each scheme to instil quality at every layer.
- Role & Responsibility

QCI is seeking professionals to support the implementation of CSUAS. The role will contribute to the development and operation of the CSUAS workstreams below:
- Scheme Design & Development: Conceptualise UAS related quality interventions that help the industry and the regulator, and develop and revise the scheme criteria, technical standards and guidelines that give them effect with a in-depth understanding of the Drone Rules, 2021 and CSUAS.
- Research, Analysis & Knowledge Products: Conduct rapid primary and secondary research on UAS domain and policy, including comparative study of standards and international best practice to draft st

📌 Associate Manager (New Delhi)
🏢 SQCI
📍 New Delhi