Senior Human Factors Consultant

Job Title: Senior Human Factors Engineer

Location: Remote with occasional visits to client site in Plymouth (approximately 2 days per month)
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 6 months
Hours per Week: 37.5
Pay Rate per Hour: £90 (Inside IR35)
Expenses: Travel and subsistence to client site payable by agreement
Notice Period: 4 weeks
Vetting Level: Active Security Clearance (SC level)

Purpose

As a Senior Human Factors Engineer, you will play a critical role in supporting engineering and scientific disciplines operating in high-hazard, regulated industries. Your contributions will include:

• Supporting the design and development of new or modified site systems, processes, and facilities.
• Providing human factors input into safety assessments and safety case processes.
• Ensuring the successful implementation and validation of human performance elements in operational settings.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Principal Engineer (Human Factors), your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the Principal Engineer in overseeing the Human Factors discipline, covering design, safety assessment, and human performance aspects.
• Mentoring and developing junior team members, including those in graduate schemes.
• Conducting human factors assessments for ergonomic design, safety evaluation, and validation of human performance in high-hazard systems and processes. Assessments include task analysis, error analysis, workload analysis, ergonomic design, and human reliability analysis.
• Preparing scopes of work, cost estimates, and schedules for human factors assessments.
• Reviewing and verifying assessment work performed by team members.
• Engaging with regulatory bodies on Human Factors-related issues.
• Promoting human-centered design principles and influencing socio-technical system design development.
• Providing guidance and advice across seven human factors domains: Human Factors Engineering, System Safety, Health Hazard Assessment, Personnel, Manpower, Training, Organization, and Social.
• Ensuring behavioral science applications are evidence-based.
• Staying informed of advancements in Human Factors, Human Performance, and Industrial Psychology to ensure best practices are applied.
• Supporting the development and delivery of Human Factors training.
• Acting as a point of contact for engineering disciplines seeking guidance on Human Factors-related challenges.
• Conducting site incident investigations to identify causes and recommend preventative measures.

Qualifications

• Education:
  • A first degree in Psychology, complemented by an MSc in Occupational, Applied, or Industrial Psychology.
  • Alternatively, a degree in Ergonomics or an engineering discipline with a strong psychological/ergonomics focus (or equivalent).
• Membership:
  • Registered Member of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors or Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society.

Experience

• Significant experience in high-hazard process industries (e.g., nuclear, defense, petrochemical).
• Solid understanding of nuclear safety assessment principles and safety case production.
• Familiarity with qualitative and quantitative Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) techniques such as HEART, THERP, and APJ.
• Application of Human Factors in engineering system/process design.
• Knowledge of structured training development principles.
• Ability to understand and communicate engineering concepts effectively with multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience in managing workloads to meet tight deadlines.
• Proficiency in applying psychological ethics in research and professional practice.
• Incident and event investigation experience.

Requirements

• Active Security Clearance (SC level).
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a team environment.

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