Senior Human Factors Engineer

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Title

Sr. Human Factors Engineer

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career of which you dream.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

We currently have an opening for a Senior Human Factors Engineer for our Cardiac Rhythm Management division. This role is located at our Sylmar, CA location.

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Management, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

What You’ll Work On

The Senior Human Factors Engineer represents the Human Factors Engineering discipline on multiple programs, operating with moderate supervision while independently managing assigned Human Factors scope. Has the ability to take an increasingly independent role in support of larger programs, serving as a key stakeholder on cross-functional R&D teams. Demonstrates strength in select Human Factors Engineering skills. Leads the development of Human Factors lifecycle documentation such as Use Specifications, Use-Related Risk Analysis, Formative Protocols/Reports, Summative Protocols/Reports, and Usability Engineering Files with increasingly limited supervision. Plans and conducts customer and competitive research to: identify, prioritize, and develop new projects; create detailed design improvement plans/concepts; and lead internal/external design and development resources. Applies Human-centered Design and Human Factors Engineering principles, collaborating closely with UI/UX partners to support the evaluation and solution of complex product design problems. Consistently monitors professional landscape for usability process improvement opportunities. Exercises independent judgment in planning, organizing, and performing work; monitors and reports status to manager.  

• Represents the Human Factors Engineering function and perspective on core teams – strongly advocating for user and customer centricity through optimal design.
• Creates and revises accurate documentation related to the Human Factors & Usability Engineering Process for multiple projects with a higher level of independence, including but not limited to: Usability Engineering Plans, Use Specifications, Use-related risk analyses, Usability Study Protocols & Reports, and Usability Engineering Files.
• Interfaces and builds rapport with a complex network of users including expert customer HCPs, translating feedback from these users into actionable design improvements for the project team.
• Defines, leads, and conducts usability testing from early product prototyping to product validation studies.
• Creates detailed design improvement concepts and effectively communicates the value of those concepts to the project teams. Works across product lines and internal departments to create and manage usability evaluation and/or improvement plans.
• Investigates and defines usability requirements for new product/feature development and facilitates the translation into new projects through usability testing.
• Identifies and analyzes use errors and issues for medical devices and translates these into specific system risk mitigations. 
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