Human Factors / Ergonomy Engineer (HMI)

Job Description

Job Description:

The Human Factors discipline plays a critical role in enhancing safety and operational efficiency by ensuring that AHE products, services, and processes are designed with full consideration of human performance and limitations.

Mission

• Bring Human Factors expertise to complex and critical cockpit designs, technologies, and operational functions.
  
• Ensure human-centric design by minimizing the risk of error and maintaining acceptable workload across all flight phases
  
• Supporting effective responses to both normal and abnormal situations
  
• Enhancing pilot performance and flight deck usability
  
• Improvement of safety and efficiency
  

Main Tasks and Responsibilities

• Design a HFE/HMI for the requested functions, in conjunction with design responsible, architects, test pilots and the end-customer
  
• Contribute to Cockpit arrangement and human factor assessment for different helicopters customizations and retrofits
  
• Collaborate in multidisciplinary teams including pilots, designers, training experts, safety specialists, and certification engineers.
  
• Define in detail the HFE/HMI for the requested functions
  
• Review changes to Functional descriptions and, where necessary, implement a change in the defined HFE/HMI
  
• Create and maintain the HFE/HMI documents
  
• Participate to status and progress meetings, including design reviews
  
• Prepare technical content in order to demonstrate the compliance of the applicable requirements, for example:
  

- HF compliance plan,

- Design documents,

- Equipment qualification,

- Mock-ups, lab tests,

- Ground Tests

- Flight Tests

- Analysis,

- Calculations

• Discuss and agree with the Airworthiness Authorities the HF certification process, from its strategy to the demonstration of compliance.
  

Desired skills and qualifications

• Completed university Degree (Bachelor / Master) in engineering or comparable in the field of Human Factors/Ergonomics, System Engineering or similar
  
• Experience in Human Factors / Ergonomics
  
• Experience in cockpit and avionics systems
  
• Experience in human machine interface in aeronautics is a plus
  
• Experience in airworthiness compliance demonstration is highly appreciated
  
• Some business trips are potentially to be expected (
  
• Soft Skills: teamwork, agility, fluency in communication/presentation, ability to synthesize ideas and escalate them in agreement with the audience
  
• Language skills: Spanish (negotiation level) English (negotiation level ), German and French are appreciated
  

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:
Airbus Helicopters España, SA

Employment Type:
Permanent
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Experience Level:
Professional

Job Family:
Qualification & Operability

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