Staff Human Factors Engineer (Andover, MA)

Staff Human Factors Engineer (Andover, MA)

Life Unlimited. At Smith+Nephew we design and manufacture technology that takes the limits off living.   

Smith + Nephew supports healthcare professionals in more than 100 countries in their daily efforts to improve the lives of their patients.  We do this by taking a pioneering approach to the design of our advanced medical products and services, by securing wider access to our diverse technologies for more customers globally, and by enabling better outcomes for patients and healthcare systems.

We have leadership positions in:

• Orthopaedics Reconstruction - joint replacement systems for knees, hips and shoulders
• Advanced Wound Management - wound care treatment and prevention products used to treat hard-to-heal wounds
• Sports Medicine - minimally invasive surgery of the joint
• Trauma & Extremities - products that help repair broken bones

We have around 15,000 employees around the world.  Annual sales in 2018 were more than $4.7 billion.  We are a constituent of the UK's FTSE100 and our shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange and through American Depository Receipts on the New York Stock Exchange (LSE: SN, NY)

What will you be doing?

• As part of the Smith + Nephew Human Factors team the Staff Human Factors Engineer will lead usability and design efforts across a number of Smith & Nephew's life changing device programs.

• You will demonstrate and champion user-centered design principals, employ design thinking activities, identify unmet needs and generate design requirements while ensuring human factors and usability regulatory requirements are met.

• In addition to providing design and usability guidance, this position will lead ethnographic research activities that will craft and define business strategies across a variety of medical device products and services.

• As a Usability authority, you will contribute to the establishment and adoption of organizational human factors operating procedures and processes.

• You will lead research across multiple programs to understand users (clinicians and lay users), use environments, user characteristics, behaviors and constraints.

• You will support the delivery of projects by developing and leading strategies, informing design through user research, reviewing HF literature, iteratively testing concepts, leading external partners and compiling reports for submission to regulatory authorities.

• You will provide ongoing assessment where changes to an existing product user interface are proposed, identifying any additional work required.

• You will develop and maintain Usability processes and procedures in order to streamline product development and maintain regulatory compliance.

• You will develop and maintain an understanding of the latest information regarding Usability and Human Factors testing for medical devices.

• You will maintain a network of external contacts who can be referred to for advice when appropriate.

• You will ensure all activities are performed in accordance with relevant national and international standards.

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