Senior Human Factors Engineer

Job Title: Senior Human Factors Engineer
Location: Thousand Oaks, CA
ZIP Code: 91320
Start Date: Right Away
Keywords: #SeniorHumanFactorsEngineer

Benefits:
* Medical / Health Benefits with multiple plan options, Flexible Spending Accounts, Dental and Vision / glasses / prescription contact lens and eye test options available.
* On the job training / cross-training to develop and expand skills, creating opportunity for advancement and personal development. Tuition reimbursement available for relevant development opportunities.
* Life Insurance, disability insurance, and voluntary life insurance for family members available. Accident and critical illness insurance optional.
* Scheduled performance reviews create opportunities for advancement and pay increases.
* We have many success stories from individuals who took advantage of the training, cross-training, and personal development opportunities for advancement. We also have success stories of individuals who desired a reliable, scheduled and consistent career with appropriate work-life balance, health benefits and good job security. Whichever way you define success, this work culture cares about team members and treats each individual with dignity, inclusion, respect and recognition.
* A Referral Program compensates active employees for referring friends and former colleagues when the referral results in hiring the person. Our team has grown with referrals and internal promotions.

Responsibilities:
Supports the Instruction Design and Human Factors Engineering/Usability Engineering (HFE) teams to create instruction materials, including Instructions for Use (IFUs) used to instruct laypersons in the proper use of combination products/drug delivery devices. IFU creation includes copy, layout, and line-art illustrations. Develops both low- (simple sketch) and high-fidelity digital samples of instructional materials intended for print. Manages instruction design projects, working closely with other designers, HF engineers, and other related functions. Supports usability studies with quick turn-around during iterative studies in a design-test-refine-test model. Balances design thinking with regulatory requirements during development of instructional materials. Develops instructions for new projects by understanding user needs with HFE partners and applying platform guidelines to create approachable, useful, and effective instructions for users who may be new to the therapy and drug administration. Maintains history records to capture rationale for changes over the development of the instructions. Supports process improvement initiatives, including: defining and documenting current procedures within the group and working with cross-functional partners to improve and document labeling across upstream and downstream functions.

Top 6 Must-Have Skill Sets:
* Minimum 5-10 years of instruction design experience including IFUs, including strong proficiency in rapid sketch illustration, digital line-art illustration, and image (photo) editing. Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), and strong knowledge of InDesign paragraph and character styles. Understands the application of structure and grids for the development of platforms to ensure consistency in output and efficiency in process during instruction creation.
* Minimum 3-5 years managing design projects and/or teams.
* Medical, healthcare, medical devices and/or pharmaceuticals background.
* Must be punctual, reliable, flexible, and excellent at balancing multiple detail-oriented projects.
* If remote, must have experience working remotely from others in team.
* High-level attention to detail and accuracy in reducing errors in work deliverables.

Day to Day Responsibilities:
* Create and update IFUs, reference guides, and carton artwork content and graphics (layout and illustrations) for new and existing medical device/combination products to ensure accuracy and compliance with applicable regulations, industry standards, and company requirements.
* Develop instruction design strategies for individual projects that align with department and corporate instruction platforms. Manage individual projects, representing the Instruction Design group, by coordinating with cross-functional teams (including Human Factors, Device Engineering, Marketing Labeling, Clinical, Legal and Regulatory Affairs) to define instructional requirements and execute on plans.
* Support extension of department platform designs into individual projects. Communicate daily with other designers on impact to platform designs, and update platforms as appropriate.
* Maintain change history of instruction materials during their development.
* Produce low (quick sketch) to high (refined digital files) fidelity prototypes of IFUs, reference guides, and carton artwork for usability studies. High fidelity prototypes may require plotting, trimming, folding, binding, laminating, and constructing structural cartons.
* Provide expertise and guidance to Human Factors engineering partners and other cross-functional partners with content generation, illustrations, layout, and formatting of instruction materials.
* Support process improvement programs and documentation of cross-functional processes.
* Manage junior staff and/or oversee external vendors to execute design work.
* Troubleshoot relatively complex problems and issues.

Red Flags for Recruiters:
* Only academic experience
* Past experience exclusively in marketing, branding, logos, websites without any experience writing instructions for regulated products
* Only junior-level experience designing; we need senior-level experience and thinking for this role. Requires experience managing design projects and working with multiple stakeholders
* Text-based instructions only (ex., SOP development without illustrations and layout, personnel training manuals, defense user manuals)

To be considered, candidates MUST supply an online portfolio

If you are interested in this role, please apply via the apply now link provided. Our overriding goal is to provide quality staffing solutions that help people, organizations, and communities succeed. Belcan is a leading provider of qualified personnel to many of the world's most respected enterprises. We offer excellent opportunities for contract, temporary, temp-to-hire, and direct assignments. We are the employer of choice for thousands worldwide. For more information, please visit our website at Belcan.com
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