Principal Human Factors Engineer

RTX•Tewksbury, MA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Principal Human Factors Engineer to join us onsite in a closed area program with the LCE team in Tewksbury, MA. As a Principal Human Factors Engineer, your responsibilities will include: Developing and implementing one or more MIL-STD-1472 compliant Human Factors programs. Performing MIL-STD-1472 Human Factors Program tasks and analyses. Leading Human Factors Engineering efforts across all integrated product teams and lines to properly eliminate hazards or provide effective controls. Coordinating with customer human factors representatives applying methods, standards, and techniques to provide clarification of system requirements to software, hardware, and test personnel to ensure design and architecture considerations are appropriately allocated to the system and horizontally integrated across the development teams. Collaborating with Program Management and government approval authorities from program startup through production to demilitarization and disposal backgrounds.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) and minimum 8 years of relevant experience.
Experience with Human Systems Integration, Human Factors Engineering or Safety Engineering.
Experience with DoD Human Factors Programs e.g. MIL-STD-1472.
Experience developing, implementing, and/or performing Human Engineering Program Plans, Human Engineering Assessments and/or Analyses.
The ability to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required.
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for the required security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Engineering Change Proposals, Engineering Review Boards, Human Factors Working Groups, and System Safety Working Groups.
Experience with digital human modeling analysis.
Experience with Manpower/Personnel Analysis.
Experience with Human Performance Modeling (cognitive workload, manpower, and/or crew endurance modeling).
Experience with Personnel Survivability and or/Habitability.
Experience applying human factors engineering to the design of training systems and simulators.
Experience with Human Factors requirements analysis.
Experience with User Interface and developing wireframes.
Experience interfacing with System Safety Engineering showcasing execution of tasking involving MIL-STD-882 and System Safety Engineering practices.
Experience with Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) and Proposal Development.
Human Factors-related education and BS/MS/PhD in one of the following (or closely related) disciplines: Human Factors Engineering, Cognitive Psychology, Engineering Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering.
Active and transferable U.S. government issued Secret or Top Secret SCI Clearance.

Responsibilities

Performing Human Factors planning, hazard analyses and design analyses.
Briefing human factors considerations at technical reviews and as part of the engineering approval process.
Interpreting system requirements, customer specifications and military/commercial standards.
Preparing internal and customer reports describing various analyses relevant to the Human Factors program.
Collaborating across multiple disciplines to gain a full understanding of product architecture and design.
Interfacing with other engineering functions: Systems Engineering, Software or Firmware Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Hardware Engineering.
Managing Human Factors Working Group(s) between key Raytheon and Customer representatives.