Human Factors Specialist (m/f)

Job Description

Job Description:

Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for a Human Factors Specialist (m/f) to join our oin aircraft cockpit design Department in Toulouse, France.

The team's mission is to contribute to the safety and operational efficiency of our customers, by ensuring that human performance and limitations are integrated into its research, development, certification, production, and customer support activities for its products, services, and processes. Safety and human beings are at the core of our mission, with the objective of minimizing crew workload and error risks, producing effective responses to normal and abnormal situations, and enhancing pilot task performance.

Safety, well-being, and job satisfaction are also major priorities.

You will evolve within a department of approximately 30 human factors specialists and experts, with highly diverse profiles in terms of nationality (about 10 different nationalities), education and professional experience, age, and gender. They are all highly qualified in one or more human factors discipline(s), such as cognitive ergonomics, neuroscience, linguistics, or physical ergonomics. Our department covers a wide variety of projects, ranging from minor evolutions on existing products to major Research and Technology (R&T) projects to prepare the next generation of cockpits.

Your working environment:

Global capital of aeronautics and European capital for space research, Toulouse is a dynamic city in the southwest of France served by an international airport. Ideally located between the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean and close to the Pyrenees mountains, it offers plenty of options for outdoor activities!

How we care for you:

• Financial rewards: Attractive salary, agreements on success and profit sharing schemes, employee savings plan abounded by Airbus and employee stock purchase plan on a voluntary basis .
  
• Work / Life Balance: Extra days-off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, a Staff council offering many social, cultural and sport activities and other services.
  
• Wellbeing / Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death). Depending on the site: health services center, concierge services, gym, carpooling application.
  
• Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to +10.000 e-learning courses to develop your employability, certifications, expert career path, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.
  

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.

Your challenges:

• Provide Human Factors expertise on critical and complex cockpit layouts, functions, technologies, and operations, working within a multidisciplinary team composed of pilots, designers, training center representatives, safety specialists, and various design office experts.
  
• Analyze needs and factors influencing human performance, develop recommendations to be integrated into the design of existing fleets or future products, and conduct the relevant Human Factors evaluations.
  
• Lead projects with partners and universities aimed at developing scientific knowledge to continuously enhance aviation safety.
  
• Represent Airbus in international working groups addressing regulatory evolution or safety improvement initiatives.
  

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Your boarding pass:

• Background in Human Factors applied to User Experience (UX), with specific knowledge of human behavior (perception, comprehension, problem-solving) and its characteristics (impact of fatigue, stress, workload, situational awareness, experience, skill, motivation, personality...) as well as Human Factors methods applied to the design of complex systems.
  
• Knowledge of aircraft systems and flight operations, and knowledge of Human Factors certification regulations applied to commercial (large-scale) aircraft.
  
• Extensive experience in the aviation field: airlines, manufacturers, or aviation authorities, and/or a pilot’s license are a significant asset.
  
• Ability to express, justify, and defend a position in difficult situations.
  
• Negotiation level in English.
  

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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 Operations SAS

Employment Type:
Permanent
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Classe Emploi (France): Classe F12

Experience Level:
Professional

Job Family:
Qualification & Operability

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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.