Overview

Are you passionate about applying your human factors engineering skills and experience to develop innovative medical products that enhance the lives of people? Do you enjoy working with highly skilled engineers, designers and scientists in a dynamic environment to design and develop a wide range of medical products? That is what we do at Cambridge Consultants.

We are looking for experienced and enthusiastic human factors engineers at a mid-senior level to join our Human Factors Engineering team in the UK.

The products that we develop range from next generation injection devices and novel point-of-care diagnostic devices to revolutionizing surgical tools and connected healthcare devices.

We combine highly creative lateral thinking with excellent technical skills and broad industry experience to form powerful development teams. Our work ranges from complete product developments to providing consulting services for our clients on their technology, strategy or development processes.

Human Factors Engineering is an important and integral part of our medical product development process.

The role

This role will inevitably be varied, so we’ve listed a few of things you can expect to lead or be involved in (depending on your experience).

• Leading or supporting the human factors aspects of medical product development projects. This will require working collaboratively with our multidisciplinary team, clients as well as collaborators to plan and execute the human factors programme of work.
• Working closely with engineers, designers and scientists to uncover user and stakeholder needs and convert them into design solutions. This will include leading front-end research and participation in concept generation activities and providing continuous human factors guidance to the project and team.
• You will design and run various types of human factors studies such as formative and validation studies in the UK and abroad.
• You will manage small to medium sized human factors projects, overseeing teams of human factors engineers and ensuring that the project is delivered to clients’ satisfaction and within the timescale and budget.
• You will work collaboratively with business development team and other senior members of the company to support sales activities. This may include identifying opportunities, participating in prospective client meetings, preparing sales materials and writing up proposals.

Requirements

We’re looking for applicants with the following experience.

If you do not meet all of the requirements but feel you could be suitable for the role then we are still very keen to hear from you!

• A degree in Human Factors Engineering, Usability Engineering, Ergonomics, Psychology, Engineering or another relevant subject
• Sound knowledge of the human factors requirements for medical and combination products for regulatory submissions
• Good understanding of the medical product development process and how human factors fits within the process
• Good knowledge, skills and experience of understanding and capturing users and stakeholders needs and aspirations, and translating them into product requirements specification. This includes conducting contextual enquiries, workshops and focus groups.
• Good skills and experience of use-related risk management, including hazard identification and uFMEA
• Good knowledge, skills and experience of conducting preliminary analyses such as Task Analysis, Heuristic Analysis, Expert Reviews
• Good experience of designing and conducting various types of formative and validation studies, including conducting one-to-one interviews with end users
• Good experience of writing study protocols and reports to high technical standards
• Good experience of writing Human Factors Engineering (HFE) / Usability Engineering (UE) reports