Job Description

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.Services advertised by Gold Group are those of an Agency and/or an Employment Business.

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