Senior Human Factors Engineer
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Job Title: Senior Human Factors Engineer
Location: Ashton Vale Bristol Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF65477
At Babcock were working to create a safe and secure world together and if you join us you can play your part as a Senior Human Factors Engineer at our Ashton Vale Bristol site.
The Role
As aSenior Human Factors Engineer youll have a role thats out of the ordinary. This is a unique opportunity to influence the design and integration of systems that are vital to national defence ensuring they are intuitive safe and effective for the people who operate and maintain them.
Day-to-day youll join our growing team supporting the development of communication systems weapon systems and other complex safety-critical technologies.
- Lead and deliver Human Factors Integration (HFI) activities across multiple high-profile defence programmes.
- Apply human-centred design principles to ensure systems are operable maintainable and safe.
- Conduct task analysis workload assessments usability evaluations and human error analysis.
- Collaborate with systems engineers designers and end-users to shape system requirements and interfaces.
- Support safety cases and regulatory compliance through robust HF evidence and documentation.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the development of HF capability within the business.
This role is full time 37 hours per week and requires travel across a range of Babcock sites across the UK when the business demands alongside home working arrangements.
Essential Experience of the Senior Human Factors Engineer
- Proven experience of applying HF principles and methods in defence aerospace or similarly complex domains.
- Familiarity with defence standards (e.g. DEF STAN 00-251 JSP 912) and HFI frameworks.
- Strong analytical communication and stakeholder management skills.
Qualifications for the Senior Human Factors Engineer
- Degree in Human Factors Ergonomics Psychology or a related discipline.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth nationality current or former citizenship and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - ()
What We Offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP annual health check and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually
- Be Kind Day enables employees to take one working days paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical mental and financial wellbeing
- A relocation package for those outside of the region
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations protect communities and build a better world. To continue we must adapt advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please email with the subject header Reasonable adjustments requirement. Were committed to building an inclusive culture where everyones free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing Date: 09/07/2025
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Employment Type
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