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About the Role
Expleo is seeking a Human Factors & Ergonomics Engineer to integrate human-centred design principles into complex control systems and safety-critical engineering programs. This role ensures systems are safe, usable, and meet operator needs throughout their lifecycle, contributing to Human Factors Integration (HFI) within multidisciplinary teams.
Responsibilities
- Support the delivery of Human Factors activities across live engineering programmes.
- Contribute to Human Factors Integration (HFI) strategies and management plans.
- Ensure usability and human performance considerations are embedded throughout the system lifecycle.
- Promote human-centred design principles across multidisciplinary teams.
- Contribute to requirements capture and analysis focusing on human performance, workload management, usability, and operator interaction.
- Support the translation of user and operational needs into engineering requirements.
- Work closely with systems, software, and safety engineers to influence design decisions.
- Contribute to interface and control system assessments from a Human Factors perspective.
- Support usability studies, operator workshops, and user engagement activities.
- Gather and analyse feedback from operators, maintainers, and other stakeholders.
- Participate in design reviews and facilitate discussions to ensure operational needs are understood and addressed.
- Communicate Human Factors considerations clearly and pragmatically to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Contribute to Human Factors verification and validation activities.
- Support testing activities to ensure systems meet usability and performance requirements.
- Assist in identifying potential human error risks and contribute to mitigation strategies.
- Support safety assurance activities where Human Factors evidence is required.
- Produce Human Factors documentation including assessments, reports, analyses, and supporting evidence and recommendations.
- Ensure Human Factors outputs are aligned with project standards and engineering processes.
- Support traceability between user requirements, design solutions, and verification activities.
- Participate in workshops, technical reviews, and stakeholder meetings.
- Collaborate with clients, end users, operational teams, and engineering disciplines to understand system usage and operational contexts.
- Support effective communication of Human Factors principles across project teams.
Requirements
- A degree in Ergonomics, Human Factors, Psychology, or a related discipline.
- Registered member of the CIEHF, working towards, or interested in, professional accreditation (Chartership).
- Good understanding of Human Factors and ergonomics principles and their application to complex systems.
- Knowledge of Human Factors Integration (HFI) methodologies.
- Understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle, including requirements capture, system design, verification, and validation.
- Experience considering human performance, usability, operator workload, and human error reduction.
- Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to present Human Factors concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience preparing technical reports and supporting documentation.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills.
- Ability to adapt to changing project priorities and environments.
- Experience supporting Human Factors activities within engineering or complex system environments.
- Experience contributing to requirements definition and user-centred design activities.
- Exposure to usability assessments, operator engagement, or user research activities.
- Experience supporting verification and validation activities.
- Experience working alongside systems, software, or safety engineering teams.
- Exposure to safety-critical or highly regulated industries is advantageous, including Rail, Aerospace, Defence, Automotive, Energy, Industrial control systems.
Skills
- Human Factors Integration (HFI)
- Human performance
- Workload management
- Usability
- Operator interaction
- Systems engineering lifecycle
- Requirements capture
- System design
- Verification
- Validation
- Human error reduction
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Presentation skills
- Technical report writing
- Stakeholder engagement
- Facilitation skills
- Adaptability
- Railway systems experience (desired)
- Operational control environments experience (desired)
- Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) techniques knowledge (desired)
- Safety assurance processes familiarity (desired)
- Safety case development familiarity (desired)
- Usability testing experience (desired)
- Task analysis activities experience (desired)
- Human Factors standards and guidance understanding (desired)
- Chartered Ergonomist status working towards (desired)
- Professional accreditation working towards (desired)
- Operational trials support experience (desired)
- End-user evaluations support experience (desired)
- Control room design awareness (desired)
- HMI principles awareness (desired)
- Human-machine interaction awareness (desired)
- Systems engineering tools familiarity (desired)
- Requirements management processes familiarity (desired)
Education Level
- Degree in Ergonomics, Human Factors, Psychology, or a related discipline.
Benefits
- Collaborative working environment
- Empowerment to expand skills and participate in inspiring projects
- Expleo Academy for accredited training courses
- Competitive company benefits
About the Company
- Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation.
- We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.
Equal Opportunity
- As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to: Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, Communicating and promoting vacancies, Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job, Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required, Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people.
- We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
- We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive.