Human Factors Engineer

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Join Our team–Human Factors Opportunities
  
With a growing team across the Program, we have career opportunities within our Human Factors team within the Future Submarine CSI Program. This is an amazing career opportunity to join a team at its infancy.
 
We are keen to hear from candidates with differing levels of experience with relevant experience gained in human science, preferably cognitive psychology. Although defence experience would be beneficial – it is not essential. Supported by the Human Factors Lead, this position is responsible for supporting the Human Factors Engineering scope elements for the Future Submarine Combat System and you will be an important contributor to the success of this specialist team that has a wide impact within the Program.

You will join a diverse and passionate team that is committed to supporting each other and the broader Program team to meet the deliverables of this ground-breaking Program. You will have exceptional communication abilities and enjoy being hands-on. Tertiary qualifications in a related discipline are highly desirable.

Developing our staff is important to us and we have a number of training programs that include the Submarine Domain, Systems Engineering and specialist packages that have been implemented and have received great feedback from the existing team.

Some of the activities this role will undertake are:

• Provide human factors engineering consultation, as required, to support Human Factors activities and reviews.
• Conduct human factors reviews on combat system design specifications.
• Develop and maintain human factors design requirements.
• Design and conduct an operator task analysis. Broadly communicate findings to system engineers to ensure that Operator role requirements are understood and considered throughout the design phase of the program.
• Design and conduct lab based usability testing; employing both quantitative and qualitative assessment techniques in the evaluation of operator workflows, GUI and hardware designs.
• Provide human factors guidance and support for the physical design, layout, and evaluation of the control room Operator consoles.
• Design and conduct anthropometric studies on the proposed combat system design.
• Interpret, tailor, and apply human factors standards and guidelines, such as MIL-STD-1472.
• Establish and foster a strong working relationship with the customer and partners; ensure customer needs have been translated and communicated. 

You will have skills and experience in:

• Experience working within human factors
• Awareness of current and emerging best practices in human factors engineering.
• Excellent communication, planning and organisational skills.
• A tertiary degree in a related human factors field such as cognitive psychology would be also highly desirable

Our Program

Lockheed Martin Australia has been selected as the Combat System Integrator (CSI) for Australia’s Future Submarine fleet. The Future Submarine Program will be the largest Defence procurement program in Australia’s history and represents an investment in the order of $50 billion in Australia’s security. Through our investments in innovation and our 40 years of experience on 100 different submarines from around the world, we are committed to supporting the security of Australia. 

Joining the Lockheed Martin Australia Future Submarine CSI team offers a once in career opportunity to be a part of the team designing and delivering one of the most complex submarine combat systems ever from the outset of the Program, and will create compelling career opportunities for people that are up to this challenge not only now, but for future generations.  Lockheed Martin will lead a multi-disciplined team comprised of Lockheed Martin Australia engineers supported by our local Australian industry partners and will have stakeholders throughout the globe. 
  

Curious about joining our team?

Lockheed Martin Australia has our core Future Submarine Program team based in a new Mawson Lakes facility in Adelaide, South Australia

From competitive salary packages and benefits to training and development opportunities we show our appreciation for your skills, ambitions and potential.

Lockheed Martin Australia supports Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity in the Workplace.

Applicants are required to be Australian Citizens and ideally hold a current or re-instatable NV1 Defence Security Clearance or be eligible to gain this.

Employment may be contingent on the satisfactory result of criminal and/or other background screens, which require the collection and transfer of personal information.  


Where to from here? 
 
If this role is of interest to you, we invite you to submit your application by applying via the link below. We are keen to hear from ambitious and driven professionals with relevant qualifications and experience. We can then review your details and come back to you to open the discussion around the role or other relevant opportunities across the program that will play to your strengths.   


Learn more about us

Lockheed Martin is a leader in Australia’s National Security, and our collaboration with Australian industry spans the Aeronautics, Maritime, Surveillance and Defence domains. Our team spans the globe and we have 98,000 staff worldwide, and over 800 staff in Australia across multiple locations. Learn more about us, this program, our team and our proud history by visiting www.lockheedmartin.com.au