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Our Nuclear team works collaboratively across the industry, building trust and delivering exceptional engineering solutions to our key clients. It’s a really exciting time to be a part of our team, with decades of nationally and internationally critical projects in the pipeline. For you, this means unrivalled opportunities to develop your career by joining a growing team operating in a fast‑paced environment and delivering solutions to our clients’ most challenging requirements.

This role is part of the Reactor Operations Human Factors team.

Degree requirements: ’Qualifying Courses’ accredited by the CIEHF (Postgraduate study | CIEHF (ergonomics.org.uk)

Alternatively: 2.2 Bachelor’s degree and/or Master’s in Human Factors, Ergonomics, User Centered Design, Psychology, Design, Engineering, Human Biology or related subject.

Locations for this business will include: Bristol, London, Derby, Manchester

(Please note locations may close due to volume of applications - if your preferred location isn't available when you go to apply please select an alternative.)

As a Graduate Human Factors consultant, you will help to support the delivery of a variety of engineering and multidisciplinary designs across a range of challenging and exciting industries, including Nuclear & Power, Net Zero, Transportation and Infrastructure.

You’ll help us to deliver outstanding projects that respond to the needs and resources of a contemporary world and the users within it. We’re looking for new team members who are keen to take their passion and qualifications in Human Factors and Ergonomics to the next level, where our training and exposure to ground‑breaking projects will help you achieve Chartered status and develop industry skills that are highly sought after.

Based at our multidisciplinary engineering and design offices, our Human Factors and Ergonomics team members are located perfectly to provide services to clients in a range of sectors, including Nuclear, Rail, Oil & Gas and Aviation. Some example projects you could be working on are: Hinkley Point C (HPC), nuclear power station decommissioning, High Speed Rail 2 (HS2), signaling control room design, offshore platform design, airport design projects and many more.

Being part of a large global Human Factors and Ergonomics team, you will be supported and mentored as you gain experience in deploying a range of HF methodologies, such as: task analysis, Human Machine Interface (HMI) design, human error analysis, control room design, workload assessment, safety critical task assessment, etc. With our team providing support to projects throughout the world, there may also be potential for occasional overseas travel.

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