Senior Engineer – Human Factors

What you'll be doing:

• Task, Workload, Situation Awareness and Human Reliability Analysis
• Understanding operator tasks to influence design, identifying issues with design and system processes, leading to making changes to improve operability
• Analysing and assessing workload and situation awareness to optimise operator performance through design
• Planning and conducting user trials to assess developing design and optimise user interaction
• Developing and analysing Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
• Assessing Human Machine Interface (HMI)
• Applied anthropometry and assessment of spatial layout design including working with 3D Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools, immersive VR, and full-scale mock-ups

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

• Degree qualified in Human Factors/Ergonomics or a related discipline (e.g. Psychology, Industrial Design) or equivalent experience
• Experience of working on complex engineering projects would be beneficial
• Stakeholder Management experience
• Sufficient experience to be able to identify all the issues involved in area of responsibility

Desirable

• Chartered Ergonomist status with CIEHF (or working towards this)

Benefits:

• As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Human Factors team:

As a Senior Human Factors engineer, you will be part of a team working across all 3 submarine programmes at BAE Systems. This is a very exciting time to be joining one the largest Human Factors teams in the UK. Our team provides Human Factors support to the day-to-day business of designing, building and operating submarines and to the maintenance of our nuclear site licence. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.