Lead Ergonomist - HS2

Location: London or Birmingham
Base salary: £63,050pa to c.£78,800pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top of base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As Lead Ergonomist you’ll lead the Ergonomics and Human Factors assurance of major contracts in HS2 and alignment with future operations and maintenance.

About the role

• Manage multiple contractors and their deliverables across the different work packages to make sure they are delivering to the HS2 specification and requirements with respect to ergonomics.
• Leading in providing Ergonomics integration across the contracts where required.
• Contract manage and accept the delivery of activity by expert technical consultants to supplement the work of the in-house team
• Provide technical expertise to HS2 and external stakeholders (where delegated by the Head of Ergonomics)
• Support the Head of Ergonomics in in providing assurance for ergonomics to HS2
• Lead work to ensure that human performance is integrated into the design from concept through to specification and demonstration validation.
• Support the Head of Ergonomics and their team, inputting into the development of the operational model of the HS2 Infrastructure manager including evaluating and assessing appropriate values for human factors of the operational process and of passenger user behaviour and for technical capability of the system sub-elements including trains and infrastructure.
• Provide and manage specialist support and subject matter expertise to HS2 Delivery teams to ensure that Ergonomics requirements are fulfilled by the contractors
• Provide specialist input to understand the impact of likely technology changes and their potential implications on human behaviour and performance, particularly in respect of the transitions between autonomous, semi-autonomous and manual systems for key roles such as train drivers, station staff and passengers (e.g. booking, ticketing and passenger real time flow management) to ensure HS2 is specified to meet its continuing needs at and after opening - connecting with diverse expert organisations beyond the transport sector.
• Manage the expert analysis of mental and physical workload of proposed activities..
• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work. Support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About You

Skills:

• Ability to produce  high quality reports and strategic level documents
• Ability to review, assess and assure reports from contractors
• Ability to provide Ergonomics and Human Factors input on systems and operations to project engineering and delivery teams

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of the railway domain (engineering and operational)
• Knowledge of health and safety and systems safety engineering (CSM)
• Knowledge of Infrastructure Manager operational organisational structures
• Knowledge of processes required to introduce new technology
• Financial and commercial knowledge
• Chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF), or demonstrable knowledge and experience as would be required for by the CIEHF for Chartered status.

 Type of experience:

• Experience of the working within complex human system engineering multi-stage projects in a safety and performance sensitive industry
• Experience of assuring Ergonomics in a safety critical environment
• Experience of leading Ergonomics integration into engineering design & development
• Experience of implementing and adapting to change, creating an environment that helps people to change

You'll be expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect.

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

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