Job Title: Graduate Digital Intelligence Human Factors Integration Engineer
Location: Yeovil (Somerset) We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – however for this role you will be expected to attend your site 3-5 days per week.
Salary: £34,000 Per Annum + £2,000 Welcome Bonus
Who we are
Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow – shaping a safer future, for all of us.
From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space – there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.
Role Description
You’ll work together with submariners, operators, and engineers to understand the challenges they face when designing and building submarines. You will be assessing workload and situation awareness to optimise operator performance, alongside planning and conducting user trials to assess developing design and optimise user interaction. You will also be involved with developing and understanding Human Computer Interaction, assessing Human Machine Interfaces. Using measurements of the human body when assessing spatial layout design, including working with 3D CAD tools, immersive VR, and constructing full scale mock-ups and providing human reliability analysis and human factors support to site safety cases.
Core Duties
- Apply an understanding of cognitive and physical characteristics to inform design activities.
- Conduct and analyse trials and assessments to provide data-based conclusions to influence design decisions.
- Work with suppliers, cross functional teams, and other stakeholders to develop solutions, review technical information, and confirm designs meet required outcomes.
- Analyse design options for machine/computer interfaces to ensure they are intuitive, task-focused, and safe in accordance with user needs.
- Breakdown tasks to understand user activity and ensure workload and situation awareness is not exceeded such that performance or safety is compromised.
- Review environmental factors to understand how task context can impact human performance.
The Digital Intelligence Team
Drive success and innovation at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, where you will develop skills to be an integral part in delivering cutting-edge solutions that protect and empower global security.
Why BAE Systems
Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work – this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family – support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.
A place where everyone can thrive
We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
