BAE Systems
Graduate Human Factors Engineer
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This role is available across multiple locations: Barrow-in-Furness, Christchurch
Salary:
Our starting salary is £34,000, plus a £2,000 welcome payment along with an optional 20% salary advance. Plus a flexible package of benefits to suit your lifestyle.
What you'll be doing:
- You’ll work together with submariners, operators, and engineers to understand the challenges they face when designing and building submarines.
- You will be assessing workload and situation awareness to optimise operator performance, alongside planning and conducting user trials to assess developing design and optimise user interaction.
- You will also be involved with developing and understanding Human Computer Interaction, assessing Human Machine Interfaces.
- Using measurements of the human body when assessing spatial layout design, including working with 3D CAD tools, immersive VR, and constructing full scale mock-ups and providing human reliability analysis and human factors support to site safety cases.
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What’s in it for you?
On a BAE Systems graduate programme, you’ll launch a career that’s truly yours. With access to world-class training, your personal and professional networks can flourish while working across intellectually stimulating work with real responsibility from day one. You’ll receive a flexible benefits package, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme and mentors to help you develop your career. When you join us, you’ll be choosing a future enhanced by flexibility, innovation and inclusivity – somewhere your work matters. It’s a supportive, collaborative culture where you’ll be given every opportunity to build a varied career, and be empowered to achieve your potential.
Entry requirements?
You’ll need a minimum 2:2 Bachelor’s degree in a subject related to your chosen area.
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What is the application process?
The stages of our application process include:
- A short online application.
- If you’re successful, you'll then complete an online assessment with interactive activities, and an on-demand video interview.
- The next stage is competency-based interview, either virtual or face-to-face.
Why a BAE Systems programme?
We offer a non-rotational programme that gives you the choice of where you want to specialise - you’ll to deep-dive into your chosen field and develop your expertise, from day one. You’ll also have the opportunity to pace your own development over 18-30 months, to suit your lifestyle.
Start Date: April 2027
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