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Job Description:
Parsons is seeking a Human Factors Specialist to support rail and transit projects across Canada and the United States. This role applies human factors engineering and human-system integration principles to the design, operation, and maintenance of complex transportation systems.
Purpose of the Position
The purpose of this role is to ensure that rail and transit systems are designed with the needs, capabilities, and limitations of operators, maintainers, controllers, passengers, and other users in mind. This position helps improve safety, operability, maintainability, usability, and overall system performance by integrating human factors considerations throughout the project lifecycle.
What You’ll Do
- Apply human factors principles to rail and transit systems design, operations, and maintenance
- Support system engineering activities including operational concepts, requirements development, interface definition, and design reviews
- Conduct task analyses and evaluate workflows, operator activities, maintenance tasks, and user interactions with equipment, procedures, and environments
- Assess human-machine interfaces, control rooms, operator workstations, maintenance access, signage, and passenger-facing systems
- Identify human performance risks and provide recommendations to improve usability, reduce human error, and support safe and efficient operations
- Contribute to safety, operability, and maintainability assessments across normal, degraded, and emergency conditions
- Participate in verification, validation, testing, field reviews, and stakeholder workshops
- Prepare technical reports, design comments, assessments, and client-facing presentations
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Factors, Ergonomics, Psychology, Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related discipline from an accredited institution
- 4+ years of related professional experience
- Experience applying human factors methods in complex technical or operational environments
- Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision and collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in rail, transit, transportation, or other safety-critical systems
- Familiarity with systems engineering processes and lifecycle delivery
- Experience with task analysis, usability assessment, operational evaluation, or maintainability review
This job posting is for a current addition or replacement opportunity within Parsons.
We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as health, vision, dental, employer paid provincial care premiums, Defined Contribution Pension Plan (DCPP), Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), life insurance, paid time off, sick leave, all province observed holidays off, and gym membership discounts to fit your busy lifestyle!Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for indigenous peoples, women, individuals with disabilities, and visible minorities.We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Human Factors, Ergonomics, Psychology, Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related discipline
- 4+ years of related professional experience
- Experience applying human factors methods in complex technical or operational environments
- Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision and collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams
- Experience in rail, transit, transportation, or other safety-critical systems
- Familiarity with systems engineering processes and lifecycle delivery
- Experience with task analysis, usability assessment, operational evaluation, or maintainability review
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are framed as a major value driver, with an ESOP alongside a 401(k) match and additional stock-purchase options contributing meaningfully to total rewards. This structure is positioned as especially attractive for employees who value long-term wealth-building over immediate cash.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are portrayed as competitive, including PTO, holidays, flexible schedules such as a 9/80 option for eligible roles, and floating holidays in the U.S. Paid parental leave of 160 hours is also highlighted as a meaningful component of the overall package.
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What We Do
Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider with a focus on making the world safer, smarter, healthier, more sustainable, and more connected. Founded in 1944, Parsons primarily serves the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. Uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services, the corporation delivers state-of-the-art solutions to federal, regional, and local government agencies as well as to private industrial customers worldwide. Parsons has a reputation for inclusion and diversity and has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of World’s Most Ethical Companies for 10 consecutive years. Parsons facilitates a culture of innovation by encouraging collaboration among its employees and providing opportunities for career growth. With offices around the globe, people of varied talents and backgrounds, and a wide range of exciting projects, the possibilities at Parsons are endless. For more about Parsons, visit www.parsons.com. Mission: Delivering innovative infrastructure, defense, and security solutions to enable a more sustainable, safer, smarter, and more connected world.
