Human Factors Engineer

Company Description
**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 50,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Job Description**:
**Responsibilities of this role may include**:

- Establish design philosophies and strategies for Human Factors considerations.
- Execute design development activities for Human Factors, including mock-ups, simulators, and user feedback studies.
- Lead certification planning for Human Factors considerations.
- Convey requirements in a way that clearly breaks down the product objectives, regulations, and guidance material into specific and verifiable requirements.
- Review designs, develop solutions, and ensure compliance with company objectives and rail industry standards.
- Determining and interpreting the certification basis and establishing the compliance strategy, including means and methods of compliance.
- Developing, reviewing, and approving certification-related documents, including:

- Issue Papers, Special Conditions, Equivalent Levels of Safety, etc.
- Certification Plans and Summaries
- Test Plans and Reports
- Design and Analysis Reports
- Planning out test campaigns, overseeing test article fabrication, and witnessing tests in order demonstrate applicable design show compliance with rail standards.
- Interfacing with certification authorities as required.
- Mentoring junior engineers.

**Qualifications**:
**Minimum Requirements**:

- BS in relevant engineering discipline, with a concentration or extensive work in human factors, industrial engineering, cognitive engineering, or human-computer interaction.
- 10 years of relevant rail industry experience.
- An expert level understanding of design standards and verification methods for Human Factors aspects of rail projects and trains.
- Previous experience with Human Factors aspects of rail development projects.
- Working knowledge of rail industry regulations and guidance material.
- The ability to question assumptions in regulations, guidance material, and engineering specifications.
- The ability to read, review, and create engineering specifications and drawings.
- Proficient in **_English_**
- Proficient with Microsoft Office products.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- MS or doctorate preferred.
- Experience in testing planning, execution, and reporting.
- Experience and involvement with industry groups to develop consensus standards.
- Initiative, motivated & self-driven.
- Relationship builder who can communicate at all levels.
- Team Focused.
- Communicates honestly, openly and consistently
- Able to evaluate information quickly, identifying key issues and formulate conclusions based on sound, practical judgement, experience and common sense.

Additional Information

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.