About the Role
The Principal Human Factors Consultant will deliver specialized workstreams, contribute expertise to bids and projects across the SYSTRA group, and apply a solid understanding of Human Factors standards and best practices to real-world challenges.
Responsibilities
- Learn, write, review, and issue client deliverables with necessary support.
- Act as a representative for areas of knowledge, both within SYSTRA and externally.
- Maintain competencies to industry and company standards.
- Apply procedures and systems to ensure the safety of staff, public, and others.
- Ensure the safety of staff and others affected by operations through effective systems and procedures.
- Support the workstream owner by delivering technical work to a high standard.
- Demonstrate behaviors aligned with SYSTRA’s behavioral framework by actively fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, respect, and empowerment.
Requirements
- BSc or BEng discipline-specific degree qualified.
- Chartered status or working towards such accreditation with a relevant professional body (e.g., IET, CIEHF).
- Membership with a relevant professional body (e.g., IET, CIEHF).
- Demonstrable discipline-specific industry experience.
Skills
- Systems Human Factors approach
- Human factors integration and assurance across the project lifecycle
- User-centred design approach to project delivery
- Human error and human reliability analysis (e.g., fault trees, hazard identification and risk assessments (HazID))
- Qualitative and quantitative methods to identify user requirements (e.g., workshop facilitation, focus groups, interviews, questionnaires, and observations)
- Methods to understand the impact of change (e.g., task analyses, day in the life of (DITLO))
- Understanding of performance and safety shaping factors in the context of the wider system
Education Level
- BSc or BEng discipline specific degree qualified
- Chartered status or working towards such accreditation with relevant professional body
- Membership with relevant professional body
About the Company
- SYSTRA's specialists plan, design, integrate, test, commission, project manage and deliver mass transit and mobility solutions relied on by more than 50 million people every day.
- For more than 60 years, the Group has been committed to helping cities and regions contribute to their development by creating, improving and modernising their transport infrastructure with sustainability, accessibility and innovation at the heart of their designs.
- With over 10,300 colleagues globally and around 1000 in the UK & Ireland, SYSTRA is growing significantly and seeking out the very best talent to join the SYSTRA signature team and be part of leading the way in infrastructure design.
