Sr Human Factors Engineer
Location
United Kingdom | United States
Job description
Veranex is the only truly comprehensive, global, tech-enabled service provider dedicated to the medical technology industry. Offering expert guidance from concept-through-commercialization, including product design and engineering, preclinical and clinical development, data management, market access, regulatory affairs and quality assurance, Veranex enables accelerated speed to market, controlled development costs, development risk mitigation, and accelerated market viability assessment. At every stage, Veranex clients realize efficiencies in cost and time, while our comprehensive solutions unify the entire development process. Veranex partners with the world's most influential life science and medical device companies to research, design, develop and commercialize new healthcare technologies and treatments to advance patient care.
About This Role:
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Human Factors team at Veranex! In this role, you will support human factors engineering design, development, and testing activities in cross-functional program teams, innovating and improving medical device and consumer healthcare products.
What You Will Do:
- Applies human factors engineering knowledge in cross-functional team environment to evaluate the design space for new consumer healthcare products and medical devices in accordance with regulatory standards.
- Provides human factors support across the product lifecycle including client and user needs identification, generation of hardware and software design concepts, user interface design, testing and analysis.
- Performs human factors engineering functions for computer human interface analysis, situational awareness, human-in-the-loop scenarios, ergonomics, and kinematics.
- Conceptualizes and executes human factors engineering direction in accordance with client and development team goals. Produces customer-focused designs that address user needs, platforms, architecture, and manufacturing constraints.
- Develop and conduct human factors research studies with minimal guidance from other engineers.
- Plan and conduct end user evaluations of product concepts, data analysis, document evaluation methods/results.
- May present design recommendations to the project team.
- May assist with analytical use risk analysis to predict and/or assess use error risk potential. Identifies design mitigations.
- Participates in client interaction.
Qualifications:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in any of the following disciplines or similar: human factors engineering, design / mechanical engineering, ergonomics, biomedical engineering, industrial design and psychology.
- Minimum of 3-6 years of relevant work experience
- Understanding of the principles of medical device and healthcare regulations
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Good attention to detail
- Ability to communicate visually via sketches, charts, and digital presentations
- Ability to multi- task and perform a wide range of activities
- Ability to work under a timeline
- Ability to solve technical problems
- Ability to travel up to ~40%
Veranex is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination of any kind. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard for race, color, religion or belief, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or gender expression), sexual orientation, parental or marital status, disability, age, status as a protected veteran, national, social, or ethnic origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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