Marshall Canada requires a Senior Human Factors Engineer in Ottawa, ON to join our team. Reporting to the Senior Manager – Safety & Environmental, this role is responsible for delivering human factors engineering work packages for safe products, ensuring compliance to standards, legislation, and requirements. This role will ensure that Human Factors theory, analysis, and design techniques are applied to bids, projects, and research work.
Your responsibilities in this role:
- Work to standards, processes & procedures to ensure rigor, resilience, and continuous improvement in solutions, ensuring compliance to specifications, quality, and regulatory requirements.
- Support the compliance of all contractual, statutory, and legal requirements.
- Work closely with the design, engineering, quality, and production teams to ensure the most cost-effective solution is developed, compliant to requirements and legislation.
- Identify areas of poor ergonomics in design and recommend improvements or alternative solutions.
- Identify areas of the product design which could impact on Ergonomics.
- Recommend alternate solutions to ensure that the product is easy/safe to operate and maintain in accordance with the customer requirements and expectations.
- Undertake the Human Factors tasks in accordance with Mil Standard 1472H or Def Stan 00-251, and customer specifications.
- Promote HF capabilities to customers and client presentations.
- Promote HF awareness throughout Marshall Land Systems with specific presentations to Systems Engineers and new arrivals.
- Assist with the safety arguments, safe systems of work, and analysis to support the product safety cases.
- Support other Integrated Logistic Support activities such as developing Technical Publications and assisting with Ease of Maintenance Assessments and Technical Publications verification with the customer.
- Manage budget for delivery of own work packages.
- Plan and manage a project from a Human Factors perspective through lifecycle.
- Produce HF technical documents (e.g. HFI Reports, HF Considerations Registers, Manual Handling Assessments, lighting & noise assessments).
- Uphold the Marshall Values and adhere to Health, Safety and Environmental best practice.
- Other duties as assigned.
Apply if you have most of the following:
- Hold a bachelor's degree in engineering or science, or a Diploma of Technology in a relevant field (e.g. Mechanical, Electrical, Ergonomics, Aerospace), or equivalent. Proven experience of working within a Human Factors context.
- Knowledge of the practical application of appropriate HF standards.
- Practical application of several of the following techniques: HCI design, vehicle/shelter design layout, task analysis, workload analysis, human reliability analysis, training needs analysis, HFI in projects.
- Good knowledge of Def Stan 00-251, Def Stan 00-600 and Mil Standard 1472F.
- A full understanding of Quality Management and Control systems.
- Knowledge of all applicable Health, Safety and Environmental legislation Requirements.
- Flexible and Agile in Working remotely and in an office in different environments with the requirement to travel if necessary.
- Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality.
Must be eligible to meet the requirements of export control regulations, including the Canadian Controlled Goods Program and Canadian government security requirements.
About Marshall:
Marshall Canada is part of the 110-year-old Marshall Group of Companies, an independent private organization headquartered in Cambridge (UK).
Located in Ottawa, Abbotsford and Moncton, Marshall Canada provides military and commercial customers with a range of world-leading applied engineering services and product solutions across Canada and beyond. Marshall seeks to develop and deliver long-term value to its customers, whilst remaining firmly committed to enhancing the communities in which it operates and creating exciting opportunities for its people.
Within Aerospace, we offer world-leading engineering support and solutions to 18 Air Forces across the globe. From maintenance, repair and overhaul to complex modifications, our highly skilled engineers use their expertise to help keep critical platforms in the air.
For decades, our Land Systems team has been providing configurable, modular, highly advanced infrastructure solutions such as: laboratories, medical facilities, command and control centres, communication hubs and tactical shelters. From the heat of the desert to sub-zero temperatures we have also provided vehicle systems and platform integrations that enabled us to provide protection for people and equipment operating in the most challenging environments.
We are growing and we would love for you to join our team. This is truly an organization where you can have an enormous impact on the world around you. If you want to make your mark in an organization where people really matter, this could be the opportunity you’ve been looking for.
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