Description
We are seeking an experienced Senior Human Factors Consultant to join our team. In this role, you will manage multiple projects, support junior colleagues, and ensure high-quality delivery. You will lead work from bids through to completion, working closely with clients to understand objectives, build strong relationships, and manage resources, costs, and work packages.
You will deliver projects assessing human performance risks and developing human-centred design solutions. Working with clients such as Network Rail, Hitachi, RSSB, and Transport for London, you will support major programmes across infrastructure, rolling stock, control rooms, accessibility, and digital railway technologies. Your expertise in Human Factors Integration and risk-based analysis will guide multidisciplinary teams to ensure safety, efficiency, and accessibility.
Key responsibilities:
- Human Factors Integration planning
- Management of progressive assurance activities and evidence
- Management of Human Factors issues/risks and derived design requirements
- Identification and application of appropriate industry standards and good practice guidance
- Scoping and delivery of appropriate Human Factors activities and methodologies, including task analysis, human error assessment, workload assessment, workstation and interface design, alerts and alarms management
Required skills and experience:
- A relevant undergraduate or master's degree in a subject related to Human Factors/Ergonomics, Psychology, Systems Engineering, or similar
- Chartered member status with the CIEHF, or evidence of equivalent experience and competencies to achieve this in the short term
- A genuine interest in how we optimise human performance
- At least five years' experience as a Human Factors adviser to organisations operating in complex, high reliability environments
- Strong verbal and written communication, consultation, and facilitation skills
Desirable skills and experience:
- Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA) and other task analysis techniques
- Human Error Identification and Risk Assessment (e.g. SHERPA, HEART or equivalent structured approaches)
- Workload analysis (e.g. qualitative and quantitative workload assessment techniques)
- Anthropometric assessment and accommodation analysis
- Digital human modelling
- Sight-line and visibility assessment
- Human-machine interface (HMI) evaluation and design review
- Usability evaluation and user trials
- Experience in accessibility and PRM-TSI or NTSN compliance
- Experience in safety assurance, safety case development and CSM processes