Senior Human Factors Engineer

Job Title:                     Senior Human Factors Engineer

Location:                     Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF71473

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Human Factors Engineer at our Ashton Vale, Bristol site.

The Role

As a Senior Human Factors Engineer you will have a unique opportunity to influence the design and integration of systems that are vital to national defence, ensuring they are intuitive, safe, and effective for the people who operate and maintain them.

Day-to-day, your responsibilities will include:

• Lead and deliver Human Factors Integration activities across multiple high-profile defence programmes.


• Apply human-centred design principles to ensure systems are operable, maintainable, and safe.


• Undertake Human Factors analyses such as task analysis, workload assessments, usability evaluations, and human error analysis.


• Collaborate closely with internal multidisciplinary teams and external suppliers.


• Liaise with customers as the HF point of contact.


• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the development of HF capability within the business.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Human Factors Engineer

• Proven experience of applying HF principles and methods in defence, aerospace, or similarly complex domains.


• Familiarity with defence standards (e.g., DEF STAN 00-251, JSP 912) and HFI frameworks, or equivalent from another industry background


• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Qualifications for the Senior Human Factors Engineer

• Degree in Human Factors, Ergonomics, Psychology, or a related discipline.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a SOLE UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What We Offer

• Generous holiday allowance


• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance


• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+


• Employee share scheme


• Employee shopping savings portal


• Payment of Professional Fees


• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave


• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity


• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock

We’re Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts - not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [email protected] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing Date: 04/03/2026

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