Senior Human Factors Engineer
12 month contract - Inside IR35 – 4 days onsite in Preston

We are looking for a Senior Human Factors Engineer to assist in the development of HMI designs and schemes for the fast jets or Military Aviation Cockpit for a consultancy we are working with. Successful candidate will need to have Active SC.

Work Experience
Duties may also include providing broader support to the Cockpit Group team, including:
  • Supporting Safety analysis using Human Error Analysis techniques
  • Supporting technical document reviews and distribution
  • Validation and Verification activities of design to support qualification and airworthiness clearances. 
  • Undertaking analysis of customer requirements, to determine the basis for new and evolved features within the cockpit.
  • Against agreed requirements, establishing designs and schemes for the HMI within the fast jets Cockpit, covering control and symbology aspects.
  • Defining Pilot interfaces with the systems in conjunction with Aircrew and Test Pilots from fast jets operating Airforces and engineering teams.
  • Working with Cockpit and System Integration rig test teams, specifying and supporting the development of test scenarios to demonstrate the proposed HMI design.
  • Supporting HMI usability assessments with Aircrew.
  • Producing Cockpit technical documentation
  • Through customer review, undertaking Aircrew assessment of proposed design schemes, refining as necessary, to establish the detailed schemes to be taken forward for full Cockpit and Avionic Systems design.
  • Coordinating with product safety and product clearance stakeholders, to support aircraft clearances of the Cockpit Designs / Schemes.
  • Working with support engineering, to establish and maintain Aircrew and Groundcrew Technical Publications, to underpin safe operation of the fast jets Weapon System.



Essential skills/qualifications
  • Degree or equivalent in Human Factors or related subject (e.g. psychology or user centred design)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Confidence in presenting information to a wide variety of stakeholders
  • Be capable of deriving system requirements from higher level requirements (Customer etc.).
  • Must be capable of progressing a number of concurrent tasks and reporting on these.
 
Desirable skills/qualifications
  • Experience in conducting experiments and user assessments
  • Military Air domain knowledge and/or experience

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