Human Factors / Ergonomy Engineer (HMI)

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