About the role
Kinneir Dufort (KD) is a world-class user-centred innovation and product development consultancy, creating products and experiences for our clients in the medical, consumer and industrial sectors. We aim to design a better world, achieving positive outcomes for the people we are designing for and generating value for our clients. KD is a part of the SteriPack group, which has global manufacturing facilities in Europe, US and Asia as well as Design and Development capabilities in Bristol, UK (where this role will be based) and New Jersey & Colorado in the US.
We are looking for a Human Factors Consultant to join our experienced Human Factors team. This role will involve strategic planning, risk analysis and formative studies to set directions at early stages, and rigorous testing, analysis and summative studies during development and verification stages.
About you
As a Human Factors Consultant, your key focus will be on planning, delivery and reporting of high-quality Human Factors studies. You will also contribute to developing business through support to sales meetings.
You may be a Human Factors engineer or researcher in a consultancy or be part of a team within a medical company or similar business. Either way you’ll have a passion for enhancing the usability of a variety of product types from medical devices to software applications and you will be keen to contribute to KD’s expertise teams.
At KD, collaboration is vital to how we work. You will be a team-player, enjoy problem-solving and working in a fast‑paced, varied consultancy environment and be passionate about the impact of Human Factors on product design and user experience.
Your skills and experience
Whilst you do not need to meet all of these points, please ensure you meet the majority of them before making an application:
For this role, we are considering a salary between £40,800 to £50,000, commensurate with the successful individual's experience. As part of your application we will ask you for your desired salary. If you would like to discuss your salary expectations in more detail please reach out to us.
Why work with us?
We offer flexible hybrid working policies in terms of both location and working hours from day one. We operate availability hours so people can start at 9:30am if needed, lunch can be taken between 12:00pm to 2:00pm (in case you want to pop to the gym or attend an appointment), and we offer an early finish on Fridays if you have banked your hours for the week. Colleagues at KD work with a great deal of flexibility which varies across our teams, and working patterns are agreed with line managers, taking into account the needs of the individual and the team. We trust our people to work from home, although there may be some occasions when working from the office is necessary. Please get in touch with us if you are thinking of applying but would like more information about how our flexible working policy might work for you in this role and how the team currently operates.
We recognise that we are only as good as our people and we know how important it is to support our team.
We offer:
About us
Founded in 1977 by Ross Kinneir and Francis Dufort, the KD team are based in an iconic building in the vibrant city of Bristol. The characterful Grade 2 listed stone building was originally built as a sugar refinery around 1850. It’s now completely refitted, and houses all of our staff plus our workshops, labs, the design studio, an HF usability suite, as well as client meeting spaces. We are in a great central location: the local area is full of independent shops and it is only a short walk up to Park Street, or over to the Harbourside and St Nick’s Markets, both of which have regular street food markets.
Our values underpin everything we do.
We believe strongly in equality and fairness and try hard to do the right thing; we speak up for and support groups who are working to make a difference. Many of our team are also involved in, or run, events in their local communities, making a difference to those around them.
The team at KD are intelligent, hard-working, fun and collaborate brilliantly together to produce creative solutions. We work with some of the biggest, best and most interesting international clients that you’ll find anywhere. We’re a multi-disciplinary team, with experts in research, innovation, human factors, digital UX, 2D and 3D product & packaging design, engineering, prototyping, and electronics & software, all uniquely integrated within one great company.
Do we sound like a good match for you?
If you’d like to apply or discuss the role, we’d love to hear from you. If you think you might be the right person for us but want an informal chat first then get in touch via joinus@kinneirdufort.com.
At KD we consciously embrace diversity and proactively encourage this with our recruitment process. We welcome applications to this position from anyone meeting the skills criteria, from any background.
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