RFA Engineering (www.rfamec.com) is an engineering service provider dedicated to delivering our clients with timely engineering support and expertise. We are seeking an entry level to early career candidate to become an integral part of our engineering team. The selected candidate will work with an experienced engineering staff using state-of-the-art engineering tools & processes to validate products with cutting edge technology. This position will operate onsite at our customer's world-class engineering and manufacturing facility.
This is a full-time position with a full benefit package listed below that includes opportunities for professional growth, direct hire by our customers, and additional opportunities within our own organization.
Product Safety & Compliance - Human Factors Engineer
The Product Safety & Compliance - Human Factors Engineer is responsible for leading the verification and validation of products across development, sustaining, compliance, and certification activities. This role provides the infrastructure, test methods, and capabilities necessary to ensure design integrity, manufacturing reliability, quality, and compliance. This individual will ensure that all products, assemblies, and components are thoroughly tested, meet performance and certification requirements, and are free from defects before reaching the customer.
Responsibilities
- Contribute human factors requirements and acceptance criteria for international standards related to automation and autonomy.
- Participate in ISO working groups, technical committees, and industry forums to develop consensus-based guidance for equipment manufacturers.
- Review draft standards and provide recommendations on operator interaction, usability, situational awareness, and safety.
- Analyze how operators, coworkers, and bystanders interact with automated functions and make recommendations for human-machine interaction requirements for highly automated and autonomous machinery.
- Evaluate factors affecting operator trust, acceptance, and effective use of automation.
- Advise User Experience engineers on alerts, warnings, displays, controls, and transitions of control between human operators and automated systems.
- Develop human factors verification test methods supporting standards compliance.
- Interpret human factors-related data based on environmental conditions, cognitive workload, attention management, and adaptation to define measurable success criteria for human-system performance.
- Support validation activities that demonstrate automated systems perform as well as, or better than, a well-trained and alert operator.
Requirements
- Master of Science in Ergonomics, Biomechanics, Kinesiology, or related human factors equivalent
- Professional product engineering experience, including experience with a validation & verification engineering role.
- Proven expertise in mechanical and electro-mechanical system testing and validation.
- Exposure with CAD and 3D modeling software platforms such as SolidWorks and CREO.
- Experience with ISO standards relating to off-road equipment
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Uncompromising moral and ethical standards.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Desired Skills and Experience
- PHD in Ergonomics, Biomechanics, Kinesiology, or related human factors equivalent
- Direct experience with lab testing for UL, CE, and ETL certifications and compliance to ASME standards.
- Working knowledge of product compliance and certification processes with agencies such as UL, ETL, TUV, CSA, and external labs.
- Experience in MATLAB & Data analysis tools
Visa sponsorship is NOT available for this position.
Pay Range: $90,000-$105,000 – Commensurate with experience
About RFA Engineering
RFA Engineering has provided product development and engineering services to industry leading customers since 1943. Our primary focus is the development of off highway equipment including agricultural, construction, mining, recreational, industrial, and special machines. Our work includes concept development, product design, documentation, problem-solving, simulation, optimization, and testing of components, systems and complete machines. Our engineering staff is located at our Engineering Center in Minneapolis, branch office in Dubuque, IA, and at numerous customer sites throughout the U.S.
Competitive Benefits
- Health and Dental Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- TelaDoc: Virtual Health Care
- Vision Insurance
- Company Paid / Supplemental Life Insurance
- Company Paid Long-Term Disability
- Supplemental Short-Term Disability
- Retirement Savings Account (Traditional 401k & Roth 401k)
- Flexible Spending Plan Dependent Care
- Bonus Plan (Exempt Employees Only)
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Paid Holidays
- Bereavement Leave
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- Education Assistance
Equal Opportunity and Veteran Friendly
Equal Opportunity Employer
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Skills Required
- Master of Science in Ergonomics, Biomechanics, Kinesiology, or related human factors equivalent
- Professional product engineering experience, including validation & verification engineering
- Proven expertise in mechanical and electro-mechanical system testing and validation
- Exposure with CAD and 3D modeling software platforms such as SolidWorks and CREO
- Experience with ISO standards relating to off-road equipment
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Uncompromising moral and ethical standards
- Excellent communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- PhD in Ergonomics, Biomechanics, Kinesiology, or related human factors (desired)
- Direct experience with lab testing for UL, CE, and ETL certifications and compliance to ASME standards
- Working knowledge of product compliance and certification processes with agencies such as UL, ETL, TUV, CSA
- Experience in MATLAB & data analysis tools
What We Do
RFA serves 100's of clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 to entrepreneurial start-ups. We deliver engineering services from our Engineering Center in Eden Prairie, MN and at our client’s own facilities. Regardless of the manner which we deliver services, our goal is to please our clients, through consistent value of services which are aligned to the standards of our clients. We strive to work as a transparent extension of our client’s own engineering staff. We work in all areas of mechanical, software and electrical design, including off-highway mobile equipment and mechanical power transmission, consumer, recreational, industrial, medical products and one-of-a-kind special manufacturing machines. To see a complete listing of our open positions, please go to http://www.rfamec.com/careers/career-opportunities.html
