Fixed-term Engineer position on the understanding and use of the avalanche danger bulletin by mountain recreationists (M/F)
Société : Météo France Lieu : Isère (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes)
Présentation de l'entreprise
Expert public de la météo et du climat, Météo-France est à vos côtés pour contribuer à votre sécurité au quotidien et vous aider à prendre les meilleures décisions, dans un climat qui change. Face à des épisodes météo dangereux encore plus intenses et plus fréquents sous l’effet du changement climatique, nos missions au service de votre sécurité sont cruciales. Nous mobilisons notre expertise, notre excellence scientifique et technologique pour vous permettre d’anticiper les phénomènes météorologiques et climatiques à enjeux, et de vous y adapter.
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Présentation direction et/ou service
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Descriptif du poste
Société : Météo France Catégorie : Intérim Activité : Services Filiere : Assurance Metier : Commercial conseil Lieu : Isère (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) Durée : CDD Salaire : 32460 EUR
Mission
As a public weather and climate expert, Météo-France is at your side to contribute to your day-to-day safety and help you make the best decisions in a changing climate. Faced with dangerous weather episodes that are even more intense and more frequent as a result of climate change, our missions in the service of your safety are crucial. We mobilize our expertise and our scientific and technological excellence to help you anticipate and adapt to challenging weather and climate phenomena. Find us online: https://meteofrance.com/carte-didentite-de-meteo-france Joining Météo France means joining a multi-site organization, located in France, overseas, etc. Météo-France is organized into central and inter-regional divisions. Below is a presentation of the department you could join :
Why join us ?
Embark on a stimulating adventure in the service of all, alongside men and women committed to the daily challenges posed to our society by the weather and climate. And enjoy the following benefits: flexible working hours, RTT, telecommuting, administrative restaurant or luncheon voucher, 75% contribution to public transport, contribution to health insurance, sports and cultural associations depending on the site (climbing, gym, pottery, theater, etc.). Other benefits await you, come and discover them !
Avalanches are the leading cause of death in backcountry ski touring, a rapidly growing activity in which risk management rests on the choices made by practitioners. To inform these choices, Météo-France publishes, every day of the winter season, an avalanche bulletin (BRA) for each massif of the Alps, the Pyrenees and Corsica. Written in the afternoon by snow and avalanche forecasters, it describes the danger expected until the following evening: danger level on the five-level European scale, the elevations and aspects most affected, typical avalanche situations, snowpack stability, snow quality, a weather overview and the trend. The BRA does not tell people where to go: it is a decision-support tool for planning and then carrying out a trip. It is distributed on the Météo-France website and app and relayed by many third-party sites.
Its format has changed considerably: in 2011, the shift from a département-level text to a structured, illustrated bulletin per massif, followed by gradual alignment with European standards (EAWS), with information organised "as a pyramid", pictograms for the danger level and, since 2022, for typical avalanche situations. For the 2026–2027 season, the bulletin will be reorganised around avalanche problems.
These format choices are, however, made by avalanche specialists and forecasters — experts in the snowpack but not in communication or ergonomics. They rely largely on beliefs about what "works" and what does not, and are assessed informally with a handful of practitioners close to the forecasting services, most of them experienced and trained, and therefore hardly representative. In the end, little is known, in any systematic way, about what practitioners actually read, understand and do with the BRA.
Two studies have already been carried out by the CEN and PACTE.
The first (Lefebvre and Mandard, 2024) focused on the production of the bulletin: despite a national reference framework, the writing remains heterogeneous from one forecaster to another (many synonyms, personal styles), with recurring terms that can be confusing.
The second (Gruet, 2025) focused on its reception, based on 17 semi-structured interviews with ski tourers of varied profiles, confronted with real bulletins.
Reading is highly selective and centred on the danger level, which leads the less trained to binary "go / no-go" reasoning. The aspect rose is often misinterpreted, technical vocabulary is an obstacle, and typical avalanche situations are understood intuitively but little used. Level 3, although perceived as serious, is nonetheless widely accepted. Training, more than experience, makes it possible to move from a fragmented reading to an analytical one. These results are based on a small Grenoble-area sample and on self-reported accounts: they identify mechanisms but do not allow any generalisation.
Profil recherché
Required skills :
• Master's degree (5 years of higher education) in ergonomics, psychology, sociology, risk geography, information and communication sciences or a related discipline.
• Command of survey methods: design and administration of questionnaires, individual and group interviews, qualitative and quantitative (statistical) data analysis.
• Strong interpersonal skills for building contacts in the field (practitioners, clubs, training organisations, forecasters).
• Taste for interdisciplinary work, between snow science and the humanities and social sciences.
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