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Language : English
Job title : Senior Expert in support of the Datalink Test Facilities in EUROCONTROL Brussels
Company details : NEMAND
Country: Belgium
Responsibilities: This position is primarily a senior technical, monitoring and programme-support role within the EUROCONTROL Network Manager’s CNS Datalink Programme.
Location: EUROCONTROL Headquarters, Brussels
Commitment: full-time and predominantly on-site, eight hours per day and approximately 210 working days per year
Expected starting date: 16 November 2026
Duration: initial one-year contract, renewable up to a maximum overall period of five years
Occasional missions to other EUROCONTROL sites or European locations may be required.
The expert will contribute to improving the operational performance, resilience and harmonisation of datalink services across the European ATM Network, building on ATN Baseline 1 and preparing future capabilities such as ATS-B2.
The principal activities include:
- interpreting datalink monitoring results and analysing network-performance trends;
- identifying technical patterns and operational performance issues;
- contributing to monitoring methodologies, KPIs, performance indicators and data-quality improvements;
- preparing operational-performance, capacity, feasibility, impact and implementation studies;
- providing technical support to ANSPs, aircraft operators, communication service providers, avionics and aircraft manufacturers, EASA, SESAR and other organisations;
- preparing technical studies, working papers, specifications, recommendations, presentations and briefing material;
- contributing to DPMG, DSG and other European technical or stakeholder-coordination activities; and
- supporting ATS-B2, CP1/AF6, SESAR and other future datalink developments.
Profile sought
Required skills: The ideal candidate should have:
- a university degree in Aeronautical Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or another relevant technical discipline;
at least eight years of relevant experience in ATM, CNS, aeronautical datalink or closely related aviation communications;
- strong practical knowledge of ATN Baseline 1, CM, CPDLC, ADS-C, VDL Mode 2, the ATN/OSI stack and, ideally, Iris SATCOM;
- at least five years of experience supporting operational ATM datalink activities involving ANSPs, aircraft operators, CSPs, OEMs or international ATM organisations;
- experience with message decoding and analysis, protocol troubleshooting, communication state-machine behaviour and the identification of interoperability issues;
- experience in operational-performance monitoring, technical analysis, trend analysis and the development or use of monitoring methodologies;
- software-development, scripting or automation experience supporting datalink analysis, testing or monitoring;
- experience producing technical studies, assessments, working papers, reports or specifications;
- experience participating in European ATM programmes and multi-stakeholder technical groups;
- direct experience supporting EUROCONTROL Network Manager activities or equivalent network-level operational activities; and
- knowledge and practical experience related to ATS-B2, CP1/AF6, SESAR or future datalink services.
Knowledge of SQL, Power BI or comparable analytical tools, a relevant postgraduate qualification and French-language skills would be additional assets. The required English level is C1.
Please send your application documents until 13.10.2026 to Mariola Ziolkowski
[email protected]