Principal Human Factors Engineer

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St Louis, MO, USA
In-Office
Expert/Leader
Professional Services • Consulting • Design
Providing Human Factors Engineering, Mission Planning, and Contract Support Services Globally
The Role
Lead human factors technical efforts for complex, mission-critical systems: develop HF programs, ensure standards compliance, run requirements discovery, task/workflow analyses, user events and usability studies, produce HEDADs/CTA and other documentation, mentor staff, lead proposals, interface with prime contractors and government customers, and provide HF design and evaluation across the system lifecycle.
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WE ARE:
Monterey Technologies, Inc. applies human-centered systems engineering to the design and development of complex, critical systems. Our human modeling approach helps our clients deliver improved human and system performance at lower life cycle costs. Our human-centered approach to problem-solving ensures that we understand the human dimension before recommending technology solutions.

The Role: 
As a Principal Human Factors Engineer, you are in a technical leadership position coordinating team effort, engaging with stakeholders, and advocating for user-centered engineering approaches. In this role, you will be an expert in the application of MTI’s user-centered research, analysis, design, and development process to drive the vision of highly effective solutions for complex, critical missions.

Security Clearance Required

  • Due to federal contract requirements, applicants must be U.S. persons and eligible for a U/S. security clearance

Your Responsibilities:

    • Understand overarching project and program technical direction, develop a comprehensive human factors program, and coordinate a team to achieve overall project success.
    • Ensure compliance with human factors standards and best practices while championing the development of usable and mission-effective systems develop a usable and mission-effective systems.
    • Lead and oversee diverse technical work such as requirements discovery, compliance, workflow and task analyses, user events, and usability studies, etc.
    • Cultivate a collaborative and user-centric culture within the team, fostering a relentless commitment to knowledge sharing, skill development, and the pursuit of user satisfaction.
    • Technical lead on proposals and capture efforts.
    • Work independently on complex tasks, lead cross-functional teams, collaborate with peers, and mentor junior and mid-level team members.
    • Lead and oversee documentation efforts such as Human Engineering Design Approach Documents (HEDADs), Critical Task Analysis (CTA) reports, project briefings, test results, etc.
    • Choose, develop, apply, and oversee the application of appropriate tools and standards. Ensure team compliance with human factors standards and best practices.
    • Interface with the prime contractor, other teammates, and the government customer to provide human factors expertise.
    • Provide human factors design, development, analysis, and evaluation for all aspects of the system across the lifecycle

Your Experience:

    • A bachelor’s degree in Human Factors Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Psychology, or a related field.
    • An advanced degree (master’s or PhD) in a related field is preferred.
    • A minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience is generally required.
    • A distinguished record of leadership, marked by the mentorship of junior, mid-level, and senior engineers.
    • Comprehensive and advanced knowledge of HF principles, tools, techniques, and standards.
    • A comprehensive understanding of the system engineering lifecycle, and especially HSI considerations.
    • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex human factors findings and recommendations articulately to a wide range of audiences.

Your Benefits:

  • Flexible Work environment
  • Generous 401(k) plan
  • Paid vacation and sick leave
  • Competitive salary commensurate with education, background, and experience
  • Health, Vision, Dental, Short and Long Term insurance benefits
  • Pet-Care Insurance
  • Cancer Insurance
  • Hospital Indemnity Insurance
  • Basic Life Insurance
  • Legal Insurance
  • Cricitcal Illness Insurance

Notice:
Don’t meet every single requirement?  That’s ok!

At MTI we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

MTI is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, religion, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other protected characteristic required by applicable law. All selected candidates will be required to submit to a pre-employment background check.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Human Factors Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Psychology, or related field
  • Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in a related field
  • Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience
  • U.S. person and eligible for a U.S. security clearance
  • Distinguished record of leadership and mentorship of junior and mid-level engineers
  • Comprehensive and advanced knowledge of human factors principles, tools, techniques, and standards
  • Comprehensive understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle and HSI considerations
  • Experience producing Human Engineering Design Approach Documents (HEDADs), Critical Task Analyses (CTAs), test results, and project briefings
  • Experience leading usability studies, user events, requirements discovery, workflow and task analyses
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
  • Willingness to submit to pre-employment background check
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The Company
50 Employees
Year Founded: 1984

What We Do

Monterey Technologies provides industry leading Human Factors Engineering and Human-Systems Integration services. We have a strong foundation in human factors research, testing and evaluation methodologies, with extensive experience in research and usability test design, data analysis and interpretation. We are committed to innovation based on science and user-centered design, and we provide a wide variety of HFE/HSI services, and innovative design thinking with the rigor of human-factors and software engineering to deliver novel solutions to challenging problems.

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