Senior Human Factors Engineer
// Role Summary
Drive human-centered engineering in high-hazard defence environments as a Senior Human Factors Engineer, ensuring people, processes, and technology collaborate effectively.
// Key Responsibilities
- Apply behavioural science and systems thinking to support engineering teams.
- Influence engineering decisions and design safer, more resilient systems.
- Mentor graduates and junior colleagues within the Human Factors discipline.
- Engage with internal and external stakeholders, including regulators.
- Requires significant experience in high-hazard industries and safety assessment principles.
- Must be a sole UK National eligible for Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) clearance.
// Role Specification
About the Role
At Babcock, we are dedicated to creating a safe and secure world. As a Senior Human Factors Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site, you will play a pivotal role in this mission.
In this position, you will be crucial in ensuring that people, processes, and technology work together safely and effectively within a high-hazard, nuclear-regulated environment. You will apply behavioural science, evidence-based human performance principles, and systems thinking to support engineering and scientific teams across the Devonport site.
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include supporting safety-case development, influencing major engineering decisions, and contributing to the design of safer, more resilient systems. You will also play a part in the growth of the Human Factors discipline within Babcock by mentoring graduates and junior colleagues.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide professional human-factors advice, guidance, and support across the business, applying behavioural science and evidence-based practice.
- Undertake human-factors assessment work and manage or check assessments completed by others.
- Prepare scopes of work, cost estimates, and schedules for human-factors tasks supporting business needs.
- Support the development, training, and mentoring of junior members of the human-factors team, including graduates.
- Engage with internal stakeholders (engineers, scientific disciplines, senior leadership) and external stakeholders (MOD, nuclear regulators, auditors).
About You
To excel in this role, you will possess significant experience in Human Factors within high-hazard industries such as nuclear, petrochemical, oil and gas, or defence. A strong understanding of safety-assessment principles and safety-case production is essential, along with familiarity with qualitative and quantitative Human Reliability Analysis techniques. You should have experience applying human-factors knowledge to engineering systems and process design.
Essential qualifications include a Degree in Human Factors, physiology, anatomy, psychology, sociology, or behavioural science; or an engineering degree with industry-based human-factors experience. The ability to work towards chartership is also required.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who can achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) clearance for this role.
What We Offer
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, including a generous holiday allowance, matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance, access to a Digital GP, and an employee share scheme.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week, and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 1 day in the office/onsite.