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Jacobs Senior Human Factors Consultant in Gloucester, United Kingdom
Your Impact:
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.
People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.
Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.
About the Opportunity:
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Human Factors Consultant to join our growing talented and friendly Human Factors team in our Technology and Cyber Solutions Business. We provide a comprehensive range of consultancy services to nuclear site licence holders, regulators and other high hazard industries in the UK and overseas. We are a multi-discipline team who help customers to reduce the risks associated with human error and ensure that their systems and processes are designed with users in mind.
We support an array of UK and International clients on their existing, new build, and decommissioning facilities and are also working at the frontier of the development of new technologies. There is opportunity to work across a portfolio of sectors including Rail, Defence and Environment as well as Nuclear.
This role would suit an individual with prior experience in user interface design, ergonomic assessments, safety critical task analysis, safety case support, substantiation of operator action or human reliability in any high hazard sector. We recognise that industry knowledge and expertise are also valuable assets and so we will also consider high calibre candidates without prior HF experience who do have significant relevant sector experience and are looking to move into a Human Factors role. You would need to demonstrate an understanding of Human Factors principles and their application in high hazard concepts.
The team benefit from Jacobs flexible working and are located across the UK; applicants will be considered across multiple locations. Options to travel to client sites and premises, both UK and internationally, are available depending on the project.
Key responsibilities include:
Human Factors Integration activities to support multi-disciplinary design projects, working in collaboration with other technical disciplines.
Production of Human Factors analyses and studies, liaising with Subject Matter Experts and safety professionals.
Production of high quality technical reports to meet project and client requirements.
Planning and managing work to meet technical, budget and programme requirements to ensure client satisfaction.
As a Senior Consultant you will also:
Have excellent consultancy skills; leading and scoping projects, ensuring delivery to quality, time, and budget
Manage the production of HF proposals and contribute to multi-disciplinary project proposals.
Provide mentoring and technical oversight to other team members and contribute to the overall development and knowledge sharing across the team
Maintain strong customer relationships both external and internal
Here’s what you’ll need :
Technical skills:
Recent relevant experience in a Human Factors role or a Nuclear role with significant Human Factors context
Knowledge of Human Reliability Techniques including HEART, THERP or NARA
System, equipment and human machine interface design
Production of Human Factors Integration Plans (HFIPs)
Familiarity with Design Engineering, Fault Studies, Probabilistic Assessments or Safety Cases
Knowledge and experience in the following areas would be advantageous:
Human Factors principles, standards and methods, and their role and application within major hazard industries
Human Factors Integration support to multi-disciplinary design projects
Human error and reliability assessment
Our Culture:
Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs. (https://careers.jacobs.com/life-at-jacobs/)
We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s – find out more about our employee networks here. (https://www.jacobs.com/about/inclusion-and-diversity?_ga=2.1062705.1096535124.1626879887-1704311048.1575562676)
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