Human Factors Engineer

Human Factors Engineer.
12 Month Contract.
£74 - £84 per hour - Inside IR35.
SC Clearance required.

Summary:
We have a great new Contract role available for an experienced Human Factors Engineer with a Military Industry client, it is part office part wfh and has a great hourly rate on offer.

Responsibilities:
In your role you will be able to directly influence the development of technologies, engaging directly with the users from early concept through to delivery ensuring that the human-machine relationship is optimised.

We are looking for a highly capable, versatile and enthusiastic Human Factors Engineer to undertake a full range of Human Factors tasks across weapon system concepting, development and research activities. Responsibilities include:

• Conduct of Human Factors Integration through the development lifecycle providing progressive assurance to the customer as per Def Stan 00-251
• Development of User Interface prototypes and conduct of Human Centred Design.
• Analysis and assessment of the role of the operator within the weapon system considering product system planning, command and control
• 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 taking into account operator workload and situational awareness
• Analysis of physical ergonomics and integration into workspaces

Skillset/experience required:

• User Interface design & use of User Interface prototyping tools such as Axure
• Implementing Human Centred Design processes
• Application of Human Factors Integration & Human Factors Engineering in a Defence context
• Knowledge of defence standards (00-251)
• Conduct of core HF activities including task analysis, requirements development, user trials and Experimentation.
• Application of physical ergonomics and use of CAD software such as Jack
• Good understanding of Systems Engineering and disciplines that interact with Human Factors (Supportability, Training, Systems) including definition and verification of HF requirements.
• MS Office, DOORS
• Ability to generate technical reports

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