Occurrence Reporting Officer (AD 6) EASA

European Aviation Safety Agency

Cologne, Germany

Safety is our mission

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) forms the core of the European Union’s strategy for aviation safety. EASA promotes the highest common standards in safety and environmental protection in civil aviation worldwide. Based in Cologne, Germany, the European agency employs more than 700 highly specialised professionals from across the continent. 

As an Occurrence Reporting Officer you will work in the Safety Analysis and Reporting Section which collects, categorises and stores data on the aviation system, accidents, incidents and occurrences which forms the base for ensuring aviation product safety and conducting studies on the safety of European and world-wide aviation.

Your main tasks will be:

• Managing the receipt and storage of safety-related occurrences;
• Performing preliminary evaluation of safety-related occurrences, applying aviation taxonomy for classification and affecting relevant EASA staff concerned in each occurrence;
• Performing analysis and trend monitoring of stored data; 
• Developing regular reports and contributing to the development of the internal reporting system; 
• Contributing to external and internal communication related to the reporting system; 
• Maintaining communication and coordination with other Departments of the agency.

Your profile: high-flyers of Europe

EASA recruits the brightest talents from all over Europe to ensure the highest safety and environmental standards in aviation. 

You should have:

• A completed university degree or professional training in a relevant technical domain;
• Proven work experience of at least 2 years in performing data entry and preliminary assessment in the domains of Airworthiness and/or Operations; 
• Proven knowledge of aviation safety occurrence reporting systems; 
• Professional experience in working with ECCAIRS software tools in using aviation taxonomy; 
• A good command of written and spoken English.

You must be a national of a EU member state, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.

How to apply

For further information about EASA’s recruitment procedure and the conditions of employment, please consult our recruitment website and the official vacancy notice.

You can apply under http://www.easa.europa.eu/recruitment/recruitment.php by completing an application form and uploading a letter of motivation. 

Applications close 25 March 2013, 23:55 CET.