Senior Flight Deck Design Professional, Human Factors Engineering, Four position on Montreal QC.

Accord Technologies Inc; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

Accord Technologies Inc is seeking a Senior Flight Deck Design Professional in Montreal, QC, to conceptualize and design flight deck interfaces. This position emphasizes cognitive ergonomics expertise and requires a Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Science, along with relevant experience in the aerospace industry.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for supporting design and testing of Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) and interact with flight crews to enhance usability. The role is contract-based and requires a resourceful and organized team player with strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• 10 years of relevant experience in the aerospace industry.
• Practical experience in cognitive ergonomics and notions of physical ergonomics.
• Resourceful in computer-based tools.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize, design, and evaluate flight deck interfaces.
• Deploy expertise for design, tests, and analysis of HMIs.
• Create and manage documentation for human factors activities.

Skills

Cognitive ergonomics

Human Machine Interfaces (HMI)

Technical writing

Oral presentation skills

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Science

Degree in Cognitive Ergonomics or related field

Job description

Senior Flight Deck Design Professional – Human Factors Engineering

Location: Montreal, QC. Position type: Contract. Number of openings: Four. Visa: Any (No Closed Worked position).

Job Description

In your role you will conceptualize, design, evaluate and certify flight deck interfaces through requirements capture, prototyping, simulation, analysis and usability tests.

Responsibilities

• Deploy cognitive ergonomics expertise to support design, tests and analysis of Human Machine Interfaces.
• Support requirements development, task analysis, and human error analysis.
• Develop system Human Machine Interface (HMI) simulations and prototypes.
• Create and manage documentation for human factors activities related to new aircraft, significant cockpit modifications and sustaining programs.
• Elaborate and conduct user-centered design activities related to flight deck HMI.
• Perform scenario based flight deck and user experience (UX) evaluation in line with BA flight deck philosophy.
• Interact with flight crews to develop and assess overall cockpit physical and cognitive usability.
• Support certification effort for 1302 and other human factors related regulations.
• Interact with several programs/platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Science and a degree in Cognitive Ergonomics, Psychology, Industrial Design or equivalent.
• Practical experience in cognitive ergonomics (cognition, perception, decision making, workload, situation awareness, human error) and notions of physical ergonomics (anthropometry, strength, reach, vision).
• Relevant experience (10 years) and knowledge in the aerospace industry, including aircraft systems, flight operations, regulatory environment, design standards (e.g., MIL STD, SAE ARP, ARINC).
• Resourceful in computer-based tools, autonomous in learning and adapting easily to new software.
• Organized and self‑motivated team player, capable of working with or without supervision, with good technical writing and oral presentation skills (English required, French an asset).
• Capable of absorbing large quantity of information, planning and executing experiments, evaluations and tests for validation and verification.
• Ability to work under pressure and adjust to changing and competing priorities.
• Shows initiative, efficiency, strong sense of responsibility and integrity, good interpersonal communication skills and technical judgment.