Job Role
The role will cover all aspects of the systems life-cycle, and subject to competency and experience, could include any or all of the following:

• Identification of system requirements including user requirements.
• Generation of systems design or evaluation thereof.
• Conducting feasibility studies.
• Determination or evaluation of integration strategy for large-scale systems (HFIPs).
• Determination or evaluation of validation strategy for large-scale systems.
• Contributing to technical content, for sales proposals.
• Contributing to the enhancement of and continuous development of Praxis’ capabilities in this area.
• Acting as an advocate for Praxis within the national and international Human Factors communities, by speaking at conferences, attending standards committees, etc.
• Contributing to technical strategy for large and complex sales proposals and/or projects.
• Providing training and mentoring to less experienced staff.
• Setting direction for Praxis’ systems engineering offering consistent with that of Praxis’ overall engineering strategy.

Experience / Skills required :

• A degree or post graduate qualification in Human Factors – or significant industrial experience.
• A track record of consistent in-service training demonstrating a professional approach to maintenance of skills.
• A knowledge of Human Factors standard tools and techniques, and a critical appreciation of their strengths and weaknesses; for example task analysis, workload analysis, HMI, HCI, Human Error and Human Reliability Analysis, training needs analysis etc.
• A sound appreciation of the underlying principles of applying Human Factors in a complex systems environment, including one or more of systems of systems, requirements engineering, systems design, systems integration or systems validation.
• Membership of the Ergonomic Society UK would be preferred.
• At least five years working in Human Factors within relevant sectors – either directly within industry, or an academic or consulting environment. (Relevant sectors are civil and military aerospace, defence, air traffic management, nuclear, mainline and underground rail).
• Working knowledge of one or more regulatory regimes and the national/international standards appropriate to that regime.
• The ability to think analytically, rigorously and creatively.
• Effective oral and written communications skills to a range of technical and commercial audiences and a customer-focused outlook.
• The ability to carry out detailed justified work to commercial and technical requirements, and to be able to constructively criticise and assess others’ work.
• The ability and personal drive to work in teams or alone, with client and Praxis staff, both in Praxis offices and on-site in the UK and potentially overseas.
• The ability to mentor and develop others.