Senior Human Factors Specialist

Senior Human Factors Specialist  

Lloyd’s Register

Location: London (hybrid model) 

Senior Human Factors Specialist 

Lloyd’s Register

Location: London (hybrid model, 2-3 times in the office per month or when required on an ad hoc bases)

Our mission

Develop a decarbonised shipping industry, with human safety and sustainability at its core. To accelerate the safe, sustainable, and human-centric transition of the maritime industry, by building coalitions that deliver programmes of research, insights, and policy to unlock shipping’s decarbonisation and accelerate zero emissions fuel adoption.

What we’re looking for

We are looking for an experienced Human Factors Specialist with a background in safety critical systems and infrastructure (marine, aviation), together with a good understanding of engineering, operational impacts and safety processes.

5 years of experience as a min – ideally within operational environments .

What we offer you

The opportunity to work for an organization that has a strong sense of purpose with a mission to engineer a safer and sustainable world.

The role will be within the LR Decarbonisation Hub, which has a mandate to support its external stakeholders from a technical perspective – but it also has a strong commitment to its own personnel and their professional development. If required, suitable training will be provided both in-house and via external sources. 

The role 

Key responsibilities:

• The role encompasses a Human Factors contribution for both operational and design attributes. This is linked to the development of new vessel systems and layout in association with technology coupled to new green fuel adoptions. 
• Human Factors Integration - Lead the development of policies, procedures, and risk assessments related to Human Factors in high-hazard activities, including Safety Critical Task Analysis and Design impacts.
• A need for strong experience in dealing with Human Machine Interface (HMI) and Human performance issues, especially within a design perspective.
• Training & Competency Awareness - Developing competencies and training frameworks to support and influence training/ competency programmes for seafarers operating across a new technology value chain.
• Review investigations of incidents, near misses, and dangerous occurrences from a lesson learnt perspective and how these can be employed to future proof future vessel designs.
• Collaboration - Build relationships with Stakeholders (Research bodies, Ship designers, owners, and operators) and Regulators.
• Risk Management – Working closely with internal/ external risk teams, Integrate Human Factors risk management into overall operational, health, safety, and environmental protection strategies.
• Knowledge/ Experience of safety processes, including HAZ ID’s, HAZOPs relating to risk reduction strategies and processes.
• Desirable experience within high hazard industries, “Maritime”, "Process" or "System" Safety, and environmental protection regulations.
• Development of Human Reliability Analysis and its implementation into QRA’s – including knowledge of HEART, THERP etc.
• Understanding operator tasks to influence design, identifying issues with design and system processes, leading to making changes to improve safe operability.
• Analysing and assessing workload and situation awareness to optimise operator performance and safety through design – e.g. alarm management, onboard safe havens etc.
• Through Stakeholder collaborations, plan and conduct user trials to assess developing designs and influence the optimisation of user interaction.
• Developing and analysing Human Computer Interaction (HCI), especially those linked to Human Autonomous Teaming (HAT) – aim to provide guidance, recommendations and where applicable, mitigations.
• Assessing HMI within new designs and/or modified vessels with a view to provide industry Human Factor guidance, input to recommendations and mitigations, including creating new design philosophies.

You are someone who has:

• Chartered Member of Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors.
• MSc Degree qualified in Human Factors/Ergonomics within an operational/ engineering capacity.
• Maritime experience is desirable but not essential.
• Knowledge of alternative green fuels is desirable
• Experience in Safety Critical Task Analysis in high hazard facilities.
• Stakeholder Management experience.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Practical experience and understanding of managing risks in high hazard environments.
• Project management experience.

About us 

We are a leading international technical professional service provider and a leader in classification, compliance, and consultancy services to the marine and offshore industry, a trusted advisor to our customers helping to design, construct and operate their assets to the highest levels of safety and performance. We are shaping the industry’s future through the development of novel and innovative technology for the next generation of assets, while continuing to deliver solutions for our customers every day.

Be a part of 

Lloyd’s Register is wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a politically and financially independent global charity that aims to engineer a safer world through promoting safety and education. For a thriving ocean economy, Lloyd’s Register colleagues and Lloyd’s Register Foundation work together to fund research, foster industry collaboration and develop action-oriented solutions to make the world a safer place. 

Want to apply. 

Here at Lloyd’s Register, we care, we share and we do the right thing in every situation. It’s ingrained in our culture and everything we do. We are committed, and continually strive, to lead with our values that empower and enable an inclusive environment conducive to your growth, development and engagement. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you have experienced, how you identify, how old you are, where you are from, what your beliefs are or how your brain or body works – the diversity of our colleagues is fundamental to our futures and the changes we can make together. Our inclusive culture allows us to connect together authentically and to be courageous and bold. We don’t just talk about our differences, we celebrate them! 

We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you. 

 If you don't tick every box in these ads, please don't rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who share our goal of working together for a safer, sustainable, thriving ocean economy. 

We care, we share, we do the right thing.

If you have further questions about this role, please contact us at careers@lr.org and we will respond to you as soon as possible.

Diversity and Inclusion at Lloyd's Register:

Together we are one Lloyd’s Register, committed to developing an inclusive and safe workplace that embraces and celebrates diversity. We strive to ensure that all applicants to LR experience equality of opportunity and fair treatment, because we believe it is the right thing to do. We hope you do too.

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• ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.
• communicating and promoting vacancies offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.
• anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work.
• at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people.

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