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Airbus • Getafe, Spain

Human Factors / Ergonomy Engineer (HMI)

Employment type:  Full time
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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

By submitting your CV or application you are consenting to Airbus using and storing information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment. This information will only be used by Airbus.
Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom@airbus.com .

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

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Company benefits

Accrued annual leave
Adoption leave
Annual bonus
Bike parking
Coaching
Complimentary Medical Services
Cycle to work scheme
Employee discounts
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Enhanced sick pay
Family health insurance
Health insurance
In house training
Language lessons
Mentoring
On-site gym
Open to compressed hours
Open to job sharing
Open to part time work for some roles
Open to part-time employees
Referral bonus
Sabbaticals
Teambuilding days
Mental health support
Mental health platform access
Mental health first aiders

Working at Airbus

Company employees:

165000

Gender diversity (m:f):

70:30

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