Human Factors Engineer

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent long term contract opportunity for a Human Factors Engineer. As a Human Factors Engineer, you will undertake a full range of Human Factors tasks across System conception, development, and research activities. Integration of Human Factors is critical to the development of safe, usable, and effective Weapon Systems. The Human Factors department is responsible for ensuring that user capability is fully considered in the weapon system, from initial design through development and delivery to the customer. Our client is looking for a highly capable, versatile, and enthusiastic Human Factors Engineer to work within the Human Factors team across a number of national and international projects and research activities. Responsibilities: * Conduct of Human Factors Integration through the development lifecycle providing progressive assurance to the customer as per Def Stan 00-251 * Analysis and assessment of the role of the operator within the weapon system considering weapon system planning, command, and control * Analysis of physical ergonomics and integration into workspaces * User interface prototyping and design * Definition of HF requirements and development and maintenance of lower-level detailed specifications (e.g. for HMI/HCI) * Conduct of User Experiments and Trials supporting system conception, development and verification considering operator workload and situational awareness Skillset/experience required: Member of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF) Substantial & demonstrable understanding of the application of Human Factors Integration & Human Factors Engineering preferably in a Defence context: * Application defence standards (00-251) o Application of HF in the system lifecyle including (HFI, Task analysis, HCI specification, user trials and experimentation, physical ergonomics) o Use of CAD software such as Jack o Use of User Interface prototyping tools such as Axure o Good understanding of Systems Engineering and disciplines that interact with Human Factors (Supportability, Training, Systems) including definition and verification of HF requirements. * Good Understanding of the Military user community and ways of working * MS Office, DOORS * Ability to generate technical reports * Good planning skills * Customer focused * Effective communication skills. Please get in touch for further details