Human Factors Engineer

Programme: TRINITY
Location: christchurch
hybrid working 3 days on site

We are seeking an experienced Human Factors Engineer to join our growing team and support the TRINITY programme - a large, complex and high-profile project delivering next-generation capability.

Reporting to the Human Factors Integration (HFI) Manager, you will play a key role in delivering User-Centred Design and Human Factors Integration activities, ensuring that systems, equipment and work spaces are designed around the people who use them.

This role offers a rare opportunity to shape Human Factors within a major programme and have a genuine impact on system design, safety and operational effectiveness.

As a Human Factors Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the lead HFI specialist in delivering Human Factors activities and integration across the TRINITY programme

• Working directly with end users and key stakeholders through workshops, trials and User-Centred Design activities

• Assessing Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) equipment against system requirements and user needs

• Evaluating prototypes and mock-ups of TRINITY hardware and software solutions

• Conducting detailed analyses including:

  • Task analysis

  • Human error analysis

  • Usability and workload assessments

• Supporting system integration testing and verification activities

• Producing high-quality reports and contributing to customer deliverables

Essential Experience & Knowledge

• Minimum 5 years' experience applying Human Factors methods within defence or another safety-critical industry

• Strong background in Human Factors Integration within complex systems

Key Skills

• Proven experience working to Def Stan 00-251

• Comfortable working within multi-disciplinary engineering teams on complex integration and development programmes

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree (or equivalent) in Human Factors, Ergonomics, Psychology, or Engineering (with demonstrable HF experience)

• Registered member of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors (CIEHF) or eligible for chartership via an equivalent body

You will join the TRINITY project team of over 100 people, working alongside a highly specialised Human Factors function - currently a small, focused team of two - giving you exceptional visibility, influence and ownership across the programme