Senior Human Factors Engineer

at  Bailie Group

COMPANY OVERVIEW

CDS Defence & Security (CDS DS) is part of the Bailie Group a family-owned group of agencies and consultancies with the collective mission to improve people’s lives by sharing knowledge.
CDS DS is an industry leading technical consultancy delivering world class services in Support Engineering, Cyber Security & Information Assurance, Training & Leadership Development and Communications. We exist to make the world a safer place and do this by providing sophisticated training solutions, operational support, information assurance and engineering support to a breadth of clients within the defence and security domain.
With over 50 years’ experience, we have a well-deserved reputation for providing our clients with complete peace of mind. From delivering forward-thinking training to the UK Armed Forces, to working in partnership with Tier 1 defence and security providers on some of the most significant defence programmes of recent years, the CDS DS name has become synonymous with trust, quality, collaboration, and truly visionary approach to the most complex of problems.

SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful candidate will have the following skills, qualifications, and experience:

• Educated in a human factors related subject (Product Design, Engineering, Psychology)
• 2+ years applying human factors in a related sector
• Experience of providing Human Factors support to Safety Cases, such as development and substantiation of Human-Based Safety Claims.
• Experience of applying Human Reliability (failure) Assessment methods and techniques within the high hazard industry, such as task and error analysis, HEART and, or, other forms of HRA analysis.
• Extensive experience of conducting Defence related HF projects.
• Working knowledge of relevant UK and international standards/guidance and their application, including Def Stan 00-251.
• Excellent communication, report writing and presentation skills.
• Substantial experience or working directly with clients and representatives from stakeholders.
• Competent use the normal suite of MSOffice applications; these should include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio.
• Excellent communication skills and consultation proficiency; together with intrapersonal emotional self-awareness and integrity. And,
• Evidence of a commitment to technical excellence and continued professional development

Desirable / Preferred:

• You are a registered member of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF), are chartered, or are willing to work towards chartered membership. Alternatively you can demonstrate professional membership(s) in other suitable domains and are willing to apply for membership to the CIEHF

ABOUT THE ROLE

The role of the Senior Human Factors Engineer is to provide competent HF support and oversee some of the HF operational needs of the company for CDS DS’s clients who are predominantly in the UK Defence domain.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be the primary focal point for delivery of Human Factors input to client programmes including:

• Human Computer Interaction (HCI) development and assessment including agile engineering approaches
• Human Machine Interface (HMI) assessment: Spatial, workplace and workspace assessment (understanding of anthropometry and ergonomics)
• Cognitive workload assessment
• Human Factors Integration Plan (HFIP) development and management of the technical HF elements of the plan
• Human failure assessment and submission of assessments in support of safety cases
• Provision of Human Factors advice to stakeholders across the range of disciplines
• Control of time and budget of HF programmes of work and tasks within larger contracts.