Human Factors / Ergonomy Engineer (HMI)

Airbus; Getafe; Presencial; EUR 40.000 - 60.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading aerospace company in Getafe is seeking a Human Factors specialist to enhance cockpit designs and operational efficiency. The role involves designing human-machine interfaces, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring compliance with airworthiness standards. Candidates should have a relevant degree, experience in ergonomics, and be fluent in Spanish and English.

Formación

• Experience in Human Factors / Ergonomics.
• Experience in airworthiness compliance demonstration is highly appreciated.
• Language skills: Spanish and English at negotiation level.

Responsabilidades

• Design HFE/HMI for requests, collaborating with design and testing teams.
• Conduct human factor assessments and document HFE/HMI changes.
• Collaborate in multidisciplinary teams for cockpit development.

Conocimientos

Teamwork

Agility

Fluency in communication/presentation

Ability to synthesize ideas

Educación

University degree in Human Factors/Ergonomics or similar

Herramientas

Cockpit and avionics systems

Human-machine interface

Descripción del empleo

Job Description:

The Human Factors discipline plays a critical role in enhancing safety and operational efficiency by ensuring that AHE products, services, and processes are designed with full consideration of human performance and limitations.

Mission

• Bring Human Factors expertise to complex and critical cockpit designs, technologies, and operational functions.
• Ensure human‑centric design by minimizing the risk of error and maintaining acceptable workload across all flight phases.
• Supporting effective responses to both normal and abnormal situations.
• Enhancing pilot performance and flight deck usability.
• Improvement of safety and efficiency.

Main Tasks and Responsibilities

• Design a HFE/HMI for the requested functions, in conjunction with design responsible, architects, test pilots and the end‑customer.
• Contribute to cockpit arrangement and human factor assessment for different helicopter customisations and retrofits.
• Collaborate in multidisciplinary teams including pilots, designers, training experts, safety specialists, and certification engineers.
• Define in detail the HFE/HMI for the requested functions.
• Review changes to functional descriptions and, where necessary, implement a change in the defined HFE/HMI.
• Create and maintain the HFE/HMI documents.
• Participate to status and progress meetings, including design reviews.
• Prepare technical content in order to demonstrate the compliance of the applicable requirements, for example:
  • HF compliance plan
  • Design documents
  • Equipment qualification
  • Mock‑ups, lab tests
  • Ground tests
  • Flight tests
  • Analysis
  • Calculations
• Discuss and agree with the Airworthiness Authorities the HF certification process, from its strategy to the demonstration of compliance.

Desired skills and qualifications

• Completed university degree (Bachelor/Master) in engineering or comparable in the field of Human Factors/Ergonomics, System Engineering or similar.
• Experience in Human Factors / Ergonomics.
• Experience in cockpit and avionics systems.
• Experience in human machine interface in aeronautics is a plus.
• Experience in airworthiness compliance demonstration is highly appreciated.
• Some business trips are potentially to be expected.
• Soft skills: teamwork, agility, fluency in communication/presentation, ability to synthesize ideas and elevate them in agreement with the audience.
• Language skills: Spanish (negotiation level), English (negotiation level), German and French are appreciated.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company: Airbus Helicopters España, SA

Employment Type: Permanent

Experience Level: Professional

Job Family: Qualification & Operability

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