Principal Human Factors Engineer

Principal Human Factors Engineer – Tewksbury, MA

Location:

Tewksbury, MA

Date Posted:

Country:
United States of America

Role Type:
Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:
The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Security Clearance Type:
Secret. Security Clearance Status:
Active and existing security clearance required after day 1.

At RTX, the world largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms, and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Principal Human Factors Engineer to join us onsite in a closed area program with the LCE team in Tewksbury, MA. As a Principal Human Factors Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Developing and implementing one or more MIL-STD-1472 compliant Human Factors programs.
• Performing MIL-STD-1472 Human Factors Program tasks and analyses.
• Leading Human Factors Engineering efforts across all integrated product teams and lines to properly eliminate hazards or provide effective controls.
• Coordinating with customer human factors representatives applying methods, standards, and techniques to provide clarification of system requirements to software, hardware, and test personnel to ensure design and architecture considerations are appropriately allocated to the system and horizontally integrated across the development teams.
• Collaborating with Program Management and government approval authorities from program startup through production to demilitarization and disposal backgrounds.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Performing Human Factors planning, hazard analyses and design analyses.
• Briefing human factors considerations at technical reviews and as part of the engineering approval process.
• Interpreting system requirements, customer specifications and military/commercial standards.
• Preparing internal and customer reports describing various analyses relevant to the Human Factors program.
• Collaborating across multiple disciplines to gain a full understanding of product architecture and design.
• Interfacing with other engineering functions:
  Systems Engineering, Software or Firmware Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Hardware Engineering.
• Managing Human Factors Working Group(s) between key Raytheon and Customer representatives.

Typically Requires:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) and minimum 8 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with Human Systems Integration, Human Factors Engineering or Safety Engineering.
• Experience with DoD Human Factors Programs e.g. MIL-STD-1472.
• Experience developing, implementing, and/or performing Human Engineering Program Plans, Human Engineering Assessments and/or Analyses.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for the required security clearance.

• Familiarity with Engineering Change Proposals, Engineering Review Boards, Human Factors Working Groups, and System Safety Working Groups.
• Experience with digital human modeling analysis.
• Experience with Manpower/Personnel Analysis.
• Experience with Human Performance Modeling (cognitive workload, manpower, and/or crew endurance modeling).
• Experience with Personnel Survivability and…