Senior Human Factors Engineer

Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape the future of defence technology through human-centred design.

About Babcock

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Human Factors Engineer at Ashton Vale, near Bristol, Gloucestershire. Human Factors plays a vital role in the development of some of the world’s most advanced defence technologies. From military satellite communications and mission-critical systems to complex, safety-critical platforms, this is where intuitive design meets real-world application. Join a growing specialist team and help ensure that the systems protecting national security are safe, effective, operable, and designed around the people who use them.

The Role

As a Senior Human Factors Engineer, you’ll have a unique opportunity to influence the design and integration of systems that are vital to national defence, ensuring they are intuitive, safe, and effective for the people who operate and maintain them. Working within Babcock’s expanding Mission Systems business, you’ll lead Human Factors Integration activities, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, and engage directly with customers and suppliers. This is a rewarding opportunity to make a meaningful impact while developing your expertise in a growing and highly visible area of engineering.

Day-to-day responsibilities:

• Lead and deliver Human Factors Integration activities across military satellite communications programme.
• Apply human-centred design principles to ensure systems are operable, maintainable, and safe.
• Undertake Human Factors analyses such as task analysis, workload assessments, usability evaluations, and human error analysis.
• Collaborate closely with internal multidisciplinary teams and external suppliers.
• Liaise with customers as the HF point of contact.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the development of HF capability within the business.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office and days working from home.

Essential Experience Of The Senior Human Factors Engineer:

• Proven experience applying Human Factors principles and methods within defence, aerospace, or other complex regulated industries.
• Experience delivering Human Factors Integration activities throughout the engineering lifecycle.
• Familiarity with defence standards such as DEF STAN 00-251, JSP 912, Human Factors Integration frameworks, or equivalent industry standards.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working effectively with multidisciplinary teams, customers, and external partners.

Qualifications For The Senior Human Factors Engineer:

• Degree in Human Factors, Ergonomics, Psychology, or a related discipline.

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Sole UK Nationals. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions.

What We Offer:

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day’s paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organization or registered charity
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock is a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 05/08/2026