Graduate Submarines Human Factors Engineer
Join our Submarines Team to be a part of designing, building, testing, and commissioning the largest and most advanced submarines ever operated by the Royal Navy. Work alongside our Astute Class and Dreadnought Class Submarines to provide a powerful and secure deterrent for the United Kingdom 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. You could be the difference.
What you will be doing
As a Human Factors Graduate, you will engage with experienced submariners, operators and engineers to understand the challenges they face when designing and building submarines that are optimized for use by the very people who live and work in them. You will be working with a variety of specialist teams across our submarine programmes, applying unique problem-solving skills in a pragmatic way, to overcome diverse and complex problems. You will also have the opportunity to get involved in many stages of the submarine lifecycle, from concept design through to activities with the in-service fleet, as well as supporting the design of site facilities and the equipment used to build and launch submarines.
You will be part of a very friendly and supportive team of Human Factors specialists who will work with you to develop the theoretical and practical skills needed to become a Chartered Ergonomist.
Duties and Responsibilities
* Analysing and assessing workload and situation awareness to optimise operator performance through design.
* Planning and conducting user trials to assess developing design and optimise user interaction.
* Developing and analysing Human Computer Interaction (HCI).
* Assessing Human Machine Interfaces (HMI).
* Using measurements of the human body (known as anthropometry) when assessing spatial layout design, including working with 3D Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools, immersive VR, and constructing full scale mock-ups.
* Providing human reliability analysis and human factors support to site safety cases.
Minimum Requirements
As a minimum requirement you’ll need to have obtained, or be predicted to obtain, a 2.2 in your Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in either Human Factors, Ergonomics, Physiotherapy, Psychology, Design or a related STEM – Science, Technology, Maths or Engineering.
Benefits
You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a company-contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
On commencement of employment, you will be paid a one-off non-consolidated lump sum payment of £2,000 (the “Welcome Payment”). The Welcome Payment is subject to the normal deductions and will be paid with your first salary payment. This provides you with the perfect opportunity to ease your transition, whether this be relocation cost, securing housing, ensuring smooth and reliable transport needs, anything to help kick-start your career in BAE Systems.
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