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Senior Human Factors Engineer

Hybrid
Ottawa, Ontario
Senior Level
full_time

About the role

This position is part of the Rotary and Mission Systems business area, where employees across Canada support engineering, systems integration, training, sustainment and in-service support programs for Canadian and international military customers across land, air and sea.

Specific Job Description:

The Human Factors Engineering (HFE) team spans across Lockheed Martin Canada Inc. (Lockheed Martin)’s main project sites (Kanata, Montreal, Dartmouth). Opportunities are available at each of these sites.

The candidate will be a key member representing the HFE team in a multi-discipline team environment, working closely with the customer, program team and subcontractors to provide human factors guidance and support in the design of facilities/work spaces, workstations, subsystem equipment and graphical user interfaces.

The candidate will participate in engineering activities including but not limited to:

  • Support the planning, managing and coordinating of HFE tasks
  • Incorporate HFE in all phases of analysis, design and validation in accordance with Human Engineering processes
  • Analyze program & product requirements affecting the end user; define HFE requirements and guidelines based on HFE standards, ergonomics and task/operational needs
  • Identify and analyze end user function, tasks and roles to define operational needs
  • Provide human engineering expertise and support to the design and development of human -system interfaces in an integrated and collaborative fashion, supporting design, development, and validation
  • Develop and implement evaluation methodologies to test and assess designs of products & validate compliance against HFE requirements/guidelines
  • Support the program team in performing trade off evaluations with usability, cost, schedule and risk to optimize product design
  • Develop HFE analysis, design & assessment results artifacts
  • Support in person and remote data collection workshops, design workshops, technical reviews and regular team status meetings as required; travel may be required.

Required skills, qualifications and experience:

What you Bring to the Role:

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or science discipline & training/courses in Human Factors
  • 5+ years of industry experience in Human Factors Engineering efforts in the design and development of workspaces, equipment and Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) or as a User eXperience (UX) Researcher
  • Experience in requirements analysis & requirements derivation; flexibility to adapt quickly to changing requirements
  • Experience working with Human Factors standards (Military Standard (MIL-STD), American National Standards Institute (ANSI), International Organization for Standardization (ISO))
  • Experience in evaluating products against human factors requirements and guidelines and performing trade off evaluations
  • Experience evaluating human interfaces using modelling tools
  • Experience working with end user customers to discuss/review design requirements, task/operational needs, product acceptance/verification
  • Excellent oral communication skills; comfortable interacting with and influencing stakeholders on the team
  • Strong technical writing skills
  • The ability to work effectively both in a team environment and independently as required.

Desired skills, qualifications and experience:

  • Familiarity with Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System (DOORS), SharePoint, Windchill, Redmine or Jira, SolidWorks, Cameo
  • Familiar with executing Human Factors or UX in an agile environment
  • Experience with Military/Naval domain.

About Lockheed Martin

Defense and Space Manufacturing
10,000+

We connect customers with integrated solutions & predictive technologies to ensure they stay ahead of emerging threats.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.