The Organisation
Airservices Australia is a government-owned organisation responsible for the safe and efficient management of 11% of the world’s airspace and provision of aviation rescue fire fighting services at Australia’s busiest airports.
Our people are our greatest asset with a dynamic and diverse team operating from locations across the country - from bustling cities to regional and remote locations, including an island. This team keep are helping to secure the future of Australia’s skies and keep it amongst the safest in the world.
We connect people with their world safely – linking family and friends, generating economic activity, creating jobs, and facilitating trade and tourism.
Airservices is committed to fostering a culture that is diverse, inclusive, and respectful. We encourage motivated individuals who love what they do, value a service first mindset and embrace a challenge to explore a career with Airservices. In return you will be a valued team member, be offered flexibility and experience a meaningful career in an exciting, ever-evolving aviation industry.
The Role & The Team
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team transforming how Airservices quantifies and reports on safety performance and risk. You will contribute to the understanding of risk; accessing and creating models - developing new insights and identifying solutions to inform decision making. You will analyse safety and risk related data from multiple datasets, including occurrence reporting, aircraft trajectories, airspace sectorisation, staffing, and much more, to create a holistic risk picture.
You will intelligently explore data and models to answer critical questions. This will involve analysis, programming, mathematics, modelling, simulation, machine learning, reporting, automation, graphing, and statistics. You will explore ways to automate analysis to improve organisational efficiency. The role will also require you to learn and appreciate the systems underneath the data and analysis. There is scope for this role to adapt to your strengths or to those areas you wish to grow in.
The Person
This role would suit a qualified graduate with 3+ years of relevant experience; a recent post-graduate (PhD or Masters); or other related experience.
To be successful in this role you will need to be comfortable working with numerical, mathematical, and statistical concepts and computer programming in a scripted language, preferably Python. You should have a curious and growth mind-set to explore the data and analysis.
You will need to be able to work independently, under some supervision, and as part of a diverse team. You will enjoy researching and learning new skills and adapting to a variety of challenges.
Successful analysis also requires the communication of results to technical and non-technical audiences. Hence you will need to have good written and verbal communication skills.
The successful applicant will have:
- tertiary qualifications in applied mathematics, computing, science, engineering, statistics, or a related quantitative discipline
- experience in programming in a scripted language (such as Python, Matlab, R or a similar language)
- either three or more years of relevant experience, or a relevant postgraduate qualification (PhD or Masters).
Please see the link below to view the full Position Description:
PD Risk Intelligence Analyst.pdf
At Airservices Australia, we embrace and thrive on diversity of thought, perspectives, and capabilities because we know the benefits of having a workforce that is representative of the community that we serve. We appreciate everyone is unique, and acknowledge diversity in thought leads to greater transparency and improved consideration in our decision making.
We believe a diverse workforce supported by an inclusive culture is central to our success. We actively encourage and welcome candidates from all cultural backgrounds, gender identities, people living with disability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply.
Security Clearance
To be eligible to apply, you must be an Australian Citizen or a Permanent resident as an Airservices Background check is required for this role. Please refer to the security check requirements successful applicants will be required to undertake as part of the recruitment process.
Should you require any further information please contact Dr Steven Barry at steve.barry@AirservicesAustralia.com
How to Apply
To apply for this position please lodge an application online via the “apply link” attaching your resume and a cover letter outlining your skills and experience and how they relate to this role.
As an attachment to your cover letter, clearly and separately address each of numerical points detailed in the position description under ‘Skills, Competencies and Qualifications’.
Applications close 11.55pm (AEST) 12th May 2024