Human Factors Engineer

Competitive salary and remuneration package including 27 days holiday, pension contributions matched up to 9%. Hybrid role, onsite 3 days a week in Cambridge. Flexibility can be offered around working times and patterns.

Our Opportunity

The Human Factors Engineer will act as the Subject Matter Expert in Human Factors and ergonomic matters to all of Marshall Deployable Infrastructure and Vehicle & Missions Business Lines, supporting those engineering functions including delivery and products. The role will promote best practice within the wider business and support engineering governance in Human Factors and Ergonomics.

The responsibilities in this role include:

• Apply Human Factors performance principles, methodologies, and techniques to the design, use, and operation of human-machine systems and products.
• Identify areas where human factors input may assist in the reduction of poor ergonomics within the product design and recommend improvements or alternative solutions in line with Def Stan 00-251, Mil Std 1472H, and other customer specifications.
• Identify and analyse technical problems or risks by performing theoretical or practical human factors investigations to mitigate or bring them to closure.
• Plan and manage assigned work and report status to Human Factors Leads/Project Management/Senior System Engineers, or other Team Leads as required.
• Support the preparation of technical reports, presentations, Bid support and Face-to-Face client liaison when required.
• Promote the application of HF capabilities to customers and client presentations as appropriate.
• Support other Integrated Logistic Support activities such as the Ease of Maintenance and the development of Technical publications.
• Provide support to system engineering tasks, for example, requirements analysis, their decomposition, and creation of verification and validation plans.
• Support Safety & Environmental activities, including the identification of use-related hazards and development of early stage user studies.
• Collaborate with product teams to ensure that Human Factors input is realised at all stages of the CADMID cycle.
• The development or implementation of human performance research, investigation, or analysis protocols.
• Assessment of the user-interface or usability characteristics of MLS products.
• Carrying out user assessments and collect data through direct observation of tasks.
• Assisting in the writing and review of HFI documentation such as proposals and test plans.
• Providing human factors technical expertise on topics such as advanced user-interface technology development or the role of human users in automated or autonomous sub-systems.
• Estimation of time or resource requirements for ergonomic or human factors research or development projects.
• Making recommendations on workplace changes to improve health and safety using knowledge of potentially harmful factors.
• Preparation of reports or presentations summarising results or conclusions of human factors engineering activities, such as testing, investigations, and validation.
• Integration of human factors requirements into operational products.
• Assisting in the establishment of system operating or training requirements to ensure optimised HMI.
• Performing functional, task, or anthropometric analysis using HF tools such as checklists, surveys, and observational analysis.
• Assisting in the analysis of systems to determine potential for further development, production, interoperability, compatibility, or usefulness within the MLS products.
• Design or evaluate human work systems, using human factors engineering and ergonomic principles to optimize usability, cost, quality, safety, or performance.

Apply if you have most of the following:

Technical Competencies:

• Knowledge of the practical application of appropriate HF methodologies and taxonomies.
• Human Factor and Ergonomics practices.
• Ministry of Defence Standards (Def Stan 00-251, JSP 912).

Practical application of several of the following techniques:

• Early Human Factors Analysis.
• HCI design.
• Vehicle/shelter design layout.
• Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA).
• Workload analysis.
• Human Reliability Analysis (HRA).
• Training needs analysis.
• HFI in projects.

Good knowledge of JSP 912, Def Stan 00-251 and associated Technical Guides, Def Stan 00-600 and Mil Standard 1472H.

Good IT skills, including Word and Excel.

Ability to apply your skills and knowledge across a wide and diverse range of projects.

Ability to work accurately and at pace.

Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with energy and enthusiasm to all levels within and outside of the business.

Member of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF).

Experience:

• Demonstrable experience of development of Human Factors documentation in accordance with Def Stan 00-251.
• Demonstrable experience of providing human Factors guidance to project/product delivery teams.
• Demonstrable experience of product Human Factors risk management.
• Demonstrable experience of product safety and environmental management assurance activities.

The benefits we will offer you include:

• 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy/sell).
• Pension contributions up to 9%.
• Healthcare cash plan for you and your children.
• Extensive flexible benefit program including Cycle to Work.
• Life assurance at 4x basic salary.
• Enhanced parental leave and pay.
• Paid volunteering leave.
• Access to industry leading wellbeing resources and tools.

Additional local needs:

• Flexible and Agile in Working remotely and in an office in different environments with the requirement to travel if necessary.
• Successful candidate will be required to obtain SC clearance.