Principal Human Factors Engineer

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Juntos creamos un lugar donde somos felices, exitosos y nos inspiramos mutuamente. Aquí es donde puedes hacer tu mejor trabajo.

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Your Role at Baxter

Apply human factors engineering principles to the design, development, and evaluation of medical products while working with cross-functional program teams. With minimal guidance, plan, schedule, and lead human factors engineering activities for innovating new and improving existing medical products with product stakeholders (customers, marketing, and engineering).

What You'll be doing

• Developing and communicating project scope, plans, tasks and deliverables with program teams; managing time to meet project deadlines. This includes reporting pertinent information at key milestones through clear, concise oral and written communications.
• In partnership with other R&D teams, developing product prototypes for user interface evaluation and validation.
• Performing human factors/usability studies (formative and summative) for hardware, software, labeling, and disposable products.
• Presenting and advising on human factors topics across the organization.
• Without appreciable direction, responsible for directing and coordinating all human factors activities necessary to complete a major product development program or several small projects.
• Leading efforts to develop processes and procedures that align to Baxter initiatives and FDA/international human factors standards.
• Providing technical supervision to less experienced human factors engineers and may be responsible for the management of a small work group.
• Engaging in personal on-going learning programs to broaden knowledge in human factors engineering and to grow capabilities in new fields of user experience design in order to improve individual effectiveness.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Factors Engineering or equivalent (e.g., Industrial Engineering, Biomechanical Engineering, Human Computer Interface, Applied Psychology, etc.) from a reputed institution, Master or PhD preferred.
• 5+ years of human factors relevant experience; experience in medical device industry preferred.
• Proven experience in HFE principles and methodologies (ergonomics, human computer/machine interface, data collection, data analysis, etc.).
• Proven experience in applying human factors techniques on programs across product lifecycle (user research, prototyping, formative & summative product evaluation, use-related risk analysis, etc.).
• Proven experience in the effective implementation of HFE requirements/standards.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills in written and verbal form.
• Demonstrated ability to draw conclusions and make recommendations based on technical inputs from multiple and varied functions (Marketing, Quality, Regulatory, etc.).
• Demonstrated understanding of user centered design, heuristic evaluations, design of experiments, and qualitative data analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership for HFE projects with substantial complexity and scope.
• Ability to solve HFE problems with minimal assistance.
• Ability to decompose complex problems into actionable task lists.
• Understanding of design requirements for development, validation, and verification of medical products.
• Experience with operating in a regulated environment (e.g., FDA) with comprehension of implications for medical device and healthcare applications.
• Experience in quality management systems, such as Trackwise, JIRA, etc.

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a required minimum number of days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission. The flexible workplace policy is subject to local laws and legal requirements. At its discretion, Baxter may decide to adjust, suspend, or discontinue as business needs change. <