Senior Human Factors Engineer - HMI & Control Rooms

LGM North America; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

LGM North America, part of LGM Group with offices in Montreal and Toronto, seeks a Senior Human Factors Engineer to design, assess and validate complex safety-critical systems across rail, energy and industrial domains.

You will lead Human Factors activities through the development lifecycle, perform task analysis and workload assessments, evaluate HMI and operator interfaces, support control rooms and safety reviews, and help define design requirements and mitigations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in Human Factors Engineering or ergonomics.
• Experience on complex or safety-critical systems (rail, aerospace, energy, or similar).
• Demonstrated experience in human reliability, task analysis, workload, situation awareness, and alarm management.
• Experience with operator-facing or mission-critical systems and formal engineering docs.
• Ability to work in requirements-management and configuration-controlled environments.

Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct Human Factors Engineering and ergonomics activities throughout the system development lifecycle.
• Perform task analysis, workload assessment, human reliability analysis, situation awareness assessment, and operational scenario analysis.
• Evaluate Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI), operator displays, alarms, controls, and workstation layouts.
• Support the design and assessment of control rooms, command-and-control environments, operator consoles, and other complex human-system interfaces.
• Develop and execute scenario-based evaluations and validation activities.
• Identify human-performance risks and support the definition of design requirements and mitigation measures.
• Contribute to system requirements development, allocation, traceability, and verification.
• Prepare and maintain controlled engineering deliverables, technical reports, assessment records, and supporting evidence.
• Participate in technical reviews such as Preliminary Design Reviews, Intermediate Design Reviews, Final Design Reviews, safety reviews, and customer review cycles.
• Facilitate multidisciplinary workshops involving systems engineering, safety, operations, software, hardware, design, and customer representatives.
• Review customer and stakeholder comments and support resolution and closure of technical actions.
• Support compliance assessments against applicable Human Factors, ergonomics, safety, and engineering standards.

Skills

Human factors engineering

Ergonomics

Systems integration

Task analysis

Situation awareness

HMI evaluation

Tools

IBM DOORS

HMI prototyping tools

Requirements management

Verification & validation methods

Job description

LGM North America, part of LGM Group with offices in Montreal and Toronto, seeks a Senior Human Factors Engineer to design, assess and validate complex safety-critical systems across rail, energy and industrial domains.

You will lead Human Factors activities through the development lifecycle, perform task analysis and workload assessments, evaluate HMI and operator interfaces, support control rooms and safety reviews, and help define design requirements and mitigations.