- Full-time
- Compensation: CAD 110,000 - CAD 128,000 - yearly

Company Description

Build bold. Deliver impact. Win together. At General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada, we’re not just engineering technology — we’re shaping the future of defence and security. Our teams design and deliver advanced, mission-critical solutions that enhance national security, strengthen communities, and protect the people we serve. If you’re looking for meaningful work that contributes to a safer, more secure world, you’ll find purpose here. Every day, your skills will directly impact programs that matter.

Job Description

We have a new opportunity for a Senior Human Factors Engineering Analyst to join our Ottawa team. Working with HFE and UX practitioners, engineers, customers, and end users, you will serve as a senior hands‑on practitioner and HFE technical authority supporting multiple programs. By applying HFE principles and relevant standards, you will help deliver safe, effective, and usable systems to our customers.

Responsibilities:

- Lead HFE activities across assigned programs, defining objectives, methods, deliverables, schedules, and measures of success.
- Serve as an HFE technical authority by providing direction, reviewing technical work, and ensuring activities reflect program risks and lifecycle needs.
- Conduct hierarchical and cognitive task analyses, workload and usability assessments, function and task allocation, workflow analysis, and human-performance assessments.
- Analyze user roles, tasks, operating environments, and system constraints to identify requirements, workload concerns, risks, and design opportunities.
- Translate qualitative and quantitative findings into requirements, task models, use scenarios, design guidance,



technical reports, and engineering change proposals.
- Work closely with systems, software, mechanical, safety, and verification teams to integrate HFE considerations into system architecture and design from the earliest stages of development.
- Maintain traceability between user needs, HFE requirements, design decisions, identified risks, and verification evidence throughout the system lifecycle using requirements-management and product-lifecycle-management tools such as IBM DOORS and PTC Windchill PDMLink.
- Interpret and apply relevant human‑factors, ergonomics, accessibility, and human‑system integration standards, including MIL‑STD‑1472 and applicable ISO and ANSI standards.
- Review requirements, specifications, designs, and verification evidence for HFE content and conformance, identifying gaps and recommending corrective actions.
- Identify human‑performance, usability, and human‑error risks, and collaborate with engineering and safety teams to develop and track mitigations.
- Lead workshops, design reviews, trade studies, and concept‑validation sessions, helping multidisciplinary teams reach evidence‑based decisions and align around user‑centred outcomes.
- Present HFE findings, technical risks, and design recommendations to engineering teams, program leadership, customers,



and other stakeholders in clear written and verbal formats.
- Estimate resource and schedule needs, identify delivery risks, and establish priorities with program and engineering leads.
- Mentor less‑experienced practitioners and develop reusable HFE methods, templates, and lessons learned.

Qualifications

Required:

- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in human factors engineering, ergonomics, psychology, kinesiology, industrial design, systems design engineering, computer science, HCI, or a related discipline with substantial human‑factors coursework.
- At least 10 years of relevant experience in human factors engineering, human‑system integration, ergonomics, HCI, UX research, UX architecture, or a related field.
- Hold, or meet all requirements to obtain, Canadian Certified Professional Ergonomist (CCPE), Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE), or Certified Human Factors Skilled (CHFP) accreditation.
- Hold, or meet all requirements to obtain, a minimum of Registered Membership with the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF).
- Experience with defence and aerospace systems.
- Experience conducting HFE analyses and usability assessments for complex systems and operational environments.
- Knowledge of systems engineering, requirements management, configuration control, and verification and validation.
- Experience working with or familiarity with AI/ML models

It is a requirement that General Dynamics Mission Systems-Canada be registered with the Canadian Controlled Goods program and that all of its workforce be security assessed. Successful applicants must meet all applicable security requirements, including but not limit

📌 Senior Human Factors Engineering Analyst (Ottawa)
🏢 General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada
📍 Ottawa