Operational Project Assistant

**Function title**: Operational Project Assistant (Air Transport)
- **Reference**: NOC-AT-2025-AST/950
- **Location**: Brétigny-sur-Orge
- Information about living in Brétigny-sur-Orge
- **Nature of competition**: Internal and external competition
- **Applicable regulations**: Staff regulations governing officials of the EUROCONTROL Agency
- **Type of post**: Assistant
- **Job level**: AST4-AST6
- **Generic job title**: Specialised Technical/Administrative Assistant
- **Number of posts**: 2
- **Duration of appointment**: 5 Year(s) - extension or conversion of the contract is possible - see “Useful information” section
- **Security clearance**: Security vetting may be required in accordance with the relevant EUROCONTROL security policies
- **Directorate/Service**:ATD/INO/CoE - Centre of Expertise
- **Competition publication date**: 05/06/2025
- **Competition closing date**: 03/07/2025 (23:59 Brussels time)
- **Reserve list**: Applicable
- YOUR TEAM

YOUR ROLE

Your role will be to:

- Provide specialised technical support to R&I projects and activities/work programmes in the Air transport, in particular the ATM, and assist with the development of operational requirements and with systems/concepts developments.
- Assist with collecting requirements and performing analysis, and select indicators as needed to support the validation of new concepts.
- Collect, organise and analyse data to assist in identifying trends, support studies, assessments, reports, meetings, etc. ensuring accuracy and reliability
- Participate in validations/simulation exercise as support to assessments of projects/concepts feasibility and provide inputs as needed.
- Provide support to projects and studies to explore new Air Transport related concepts for SESAR and other R&I initiatives.
- Support with the drafting and formatting of technical documentation, working papers, reports, presentations, training material, guidelines, etc (e.g. ConOps, Operational Specifications,).
- Identify and suggest new ways and/or propose improvements in procedures/processes/technical solutions/standards/methods/guidelines, etc
- Assist and/or support staff with less experience in the domain of expertise/knowledge.
- Develop knowledge and skills in the field of expertise under the guidance of more senior staff.
- Carry out any other tasks in line with the main purpose of the job.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE & COMPETENCIES
- Post secondary education in a relevant domain (e.g. Sciences, Engineering, Mathematics, etc) with 5 years of relevant working experience.
- Experience in an engineering discipline with a broad general understanding of concept design, engineering and validation methodologies.
- Knowledge in Air Transport/Aviation, in particular in Air Traffic Management, Airports operations and/or Unmanned Traffic Management would be an asset. This knowledge could have been gained through studies or experience.
- Technical drafting skills in English.
- Experience or knowledge in Aviation Research & Innovation.
- As an asset, knowledge or experience in:

- Agile development methodologies.
- SESAR Concept of Operations and Program.
- UX/UI and/or design thinking approaches
- E-OCVM
- Machine learning techniques, toolkits, data analytics, data visualisation (using tools as Power BI, Tableau, etc.), statistical analysis, modelling, algorithm design and software development/scripting.
- Analytical thinking: You analyse information and are able to identify relationships.
- Communication: You are able to foster two-way communication.
- Quality focus: You set and foster high quality standards.
- Teamwork: You foster teamwork.
- Ability to work in a multinational and multicultural environment.
- Professional conduct in line with the corporate behaviours of the Agency, i.e. result-driven, readiness to change, customer focus, integrity and team-player approach.
The levels relate to the European-framework-reference Common European Framework of References for languages (CEFR).

USEFUL INFORMATION
- Applications will be accepted from nationals of EUROCONTROL Member States only.
If selected, the person will keep their current type of appointment duration (undetermined or determined).
The internal staff member with a determined contract will be offered, in principle, an appointment for 5 Year(s) with a maximum total duration of 9 years.
- Information on salary and benefits can be found on our Careers site
- EUROCONTROL is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality and diversity. In the event of equal merit, preference may be given to the applicant from the under-represented diversity characteristics in order to complement diversity of teams and rebalance the workforce.

JOB DETAIL

Reference number

NOC-AT-2025-AST/950

Date posted

05/06/2025

Closing date

03/07/2025