Senior Human Factors Specialist

Working for one of the area's largest employers and enjoying an excellent work/life balance, you will lead the Human Factors input to the design and assessment of AWE's facilities and processes as part of a multi-disciplinary engineering team.

Location:

Reading / Basingstoke Area

Salary: £42,650 - £65,000 (depending on your suitability and level of experience)

AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) offers an attractive array of benefits which include:

• Market leading contributory pension scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement 270 hours a year (inclusive of Bank Holidays) plus every other Friday off
• Flexible working hours
• Salary sacrifice scheme
• Consideration for either full time or part time hours. Just let us know on your application if you wish to work part time
• Relocation package available (terms & conditions apply)

Your responsibilities will include:

• Provide an Intelligent Customer interface with Regulators at a project level
• Provide subject matter expertise to Design and Peer review
• Promote Human Factors Review Learn and Improve
• Lead the production of Human Factors assessments and other technical inputs to the design process and to safety cases and safety documentation for a range of facilities including radioactive, explosives and chemical plant
• Lead Human Factors research relating to AWE's activities

Whilst not considered a check list, we will expect candidates to be able to demonstrate:

• A strong background in delivering Human Factors design and engineering solutions in safety critical or regulated industries
• A broad technical experience of Human Factors methods, tools and techniques
• Experience of applying human factors methods in a dynamic, multi-disciplined environment
• Higher education qualification in relevant a discipline (Engineering, Science, Ergonomics, Psychology etc)
• Ability to manage both technical and non-technical stakeholder relationships

Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role.