Human Factors Engineering Internship

6 days ago


Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge Consultants Ltd Full time

**Summary**
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our internationally recognised Human Factors and Usability Engineering team within the Global Medical Technology Division at Cambridge Consultants as an intern for up to 12 months.
You should have either completed your degree or be in your final years of education in Human Factors, Ergonomics, Social Sciences, Psychology, Engineering or other relevant courses. This internship can be your industry placement year, your final year industry project or a short term work experience. We are open for discussion.
You may have an opportunity to take up a full time permanent role as a Human Factors Engineer after a successful completion of the internship.

**Role description**
This is an exciting opportunity for anyone with an interest in user-centred design, to contribute to cutting edge development programmes using their knowledge and skills. During your internship period, you will work with highly skilled engineers, designers and scientists in a dynamic environment on a range of projects with exposure to all aspects of the medical product design and development process.
Human Factors Engineers at Cambridge Consultants are hands-on, undertaking the development of innovative medical products from understanding users’ and stakeholders’ needs through to concept generation, design, development, verification and validation, with the objective of improving patient’s lives.

**Specific responsibilities**
With lots of guidance and support from your peers, you will be involved in activities such as front-end user insight research, risk analysis, concept generation with participation in creative workshops; evaluating concepts with real users, guiding the design to improve products’ user interface and conducting usability testing. There will be opportunities to meet clients and manage small Human Factors tasks within projects.

**Requirements**:

- You should have either completed your degree or be in your final years of education in Human Factors, Ergonomics, Social Sciences, Psychology, Engineering or other relevant courses.
- You will be passionate about product design and technology with a strong emphasis on usability and empathy for users.
- You should be willing to work as part of a team on fast-paced projects, with a willingness to learn.
- You should have strong communication skills with the ability to conduct user interviews and focus groups, and to prepare and effectively present high quality technical documentation and presentations.
- You should have good working knowledge of MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

**Why Cambridge Consultants?**
Cambridge Consultants creates exciting and novel breakthroughs in technology and products. We help our clients achieve the kind of game-changing leap forward that will transform their whole business.
At the heart of what we do are talented and motivated multi-disciplinary teams empowered to create cutting edge technologies and systems to solve difficult problems for our clients.
We recognise and celebrate individual talent and we understand the importance of letting individuals be just that. Our people are here to do the best work of their lives and our job is to provide the platform for them to do it. That means letting people pursue the projects that interest them and develop their career in whatever direction they choose.
We’re committed to promoting a diverse workplace. We believe that diversity can only flourish when everyone feels included and has a sense of belonging.

We value all people regardless of gender (or gender reassignment), age, disability, race, ethnic origin, parental status, language, religion, marital status or sexual orientation.

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**Benefits**:
**Future prospects**
**Employment benefits**
Some of our excellent benefits include a good salary (pro-rata), free canteen - lunches and refreshments, flexible working hours, and access to the social committee.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Internship



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