Human Factors Consultant

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management and development consultancy that offers a diverse range of opportunities for potential employees. We are dynamic and innovative, working with high profile clients across Australia and globally. Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in all we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients' businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.
The Opportunity
Our team in Melbourne is growing, and we are looking for Human Factors Consultants to join us. We are involved in the development and delivery of a variety of exciting and transformative engineering projects in Victoria and around the world, particularly major rail projects.
Role Responsibilities:

- Provide Human Factors and Human Centred Design expertise to support the delivery of a wide range of engineering projects, in particular major rail projects
- Develop or implement human performance research, investigation, or analysis protocols
- Preparation of reports or presentations summarizing results or conclusions of Human Factors activities
- Conduct research to evaluate potential solutions
- Conducting cognitive workload, risk assessments and task analysis
- Specify, verify and validate Human Factors requirements tailored for individual engineering projects
- About you
As an experienced Rail Human Factors and/or Ergonomics professional, you’re comfortable leading the integration of Human Factors considerations within and across all system lifecycle elements. Additionally, you’re able to work collaboratively within a team environment, with other Human Factors Specialists as well as other Subject Matter Experts. To be successful in this role you can also bring.
- Graduated with a qualification in Human Factors, Ergonomics, Psychology or Industrial Design
- Previous professional experience in rail human factors
- Good knowledge and understanding of human factors processes and standards
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills

Our Company, Culture, and Values

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our organisation, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We value the diversity of our staff and are committed to creating an inclusive work culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work. Some of our employee benefits include:

- State-of-the-art office and end of trip facilities
- Agile working
- Competitive salary and group bonus incentive scheme
- Life, personal accident, and salary continuance insurance
- Options to purchase additional annual leave
- Social events and company outings
- Employee Assistance Program enabling access to confidential and free coaching and counselling service

You've got this

This is an exciting time to join Mott MacDonald. We can provide you significant opportunities for career development and the chance to experience challenging and rewarding projects.

Elevate your career with Mott MacDonald, a reputable engineering consultancy.

Job Profile
- Mott MacDonald is a uniquely diverse global management, engineering and development consultancy that offers a diverse range of opportunities for potential employees to work with World Expert Practitioners on small and large scale projects within Australia and New Zealand.

Other Information
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.
Agile working
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments. We embrace agility, flexibility and trust.
More about Mott MacDonald
We’re a global engineering, management and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.
A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.
Our values: progress, respect, integrity, drive, excellence