Human Factors Specialist

Role Description: 

• We are seeking a Human Factors Specialist to join the company Loss Prevention organization (LP), which is the corporate safety organization within company.
• We provide both day-to-day in-field occupational and process safety support to company operations, as well as centralized technical support and consulting function.
• Our field offices are located in Abqaiq, Riyadh, Ras Tanura, Dhahran, Udhailiyah, Jeddah (including Yanbu and Jazan), and Tanajib.
• Through these offices, LP provides its services to all company facilities and departments that are located throughout the Kingdom.
• The primary role is to provides corporate support, consultation and solutions to drive high human performance of front-line workers by developing robust systems to manage human failure and prevent human-induced incidents.
• Use proven methods to drive a positive safety culture and instill safety leadership skills for critical company roles.

Responsibilities:

• Integrate principles of Human and Organizational Factors in Company systems, culture, policies, equipment, tools and field practices, job duties will include the following:
• Develop tools to incorporate human factors in qualitative and quantitative risk assessments (e.g. human failure analysis, safety critical task analysis, Human Reliability Analysis, etc.)
• Develop tools to incorporate human performance assessments in field activities.
• Participate, review and analyze human performance issues in incident investigations.
• Advise and validate Human Factors engineering integration in capital projects.
• Advise on the design and management of operating and maintenance procedures.
• Develop systems and use expert methods to incorporate risk-informed competencies.
• Streamline critical communications for the frontline.
• Advise facilities on fatigue risk and shift work schedule design.
• Develop tools to verify safe manning levels, optimal workload and allocation of functions..
• Develop tools and support efforts to manage organizational changes.
• Develop programs and strategies for driving and sustaining a positive safety culture..
• Operationalize proven methods to assess safety culture and drive targeted interventions.
• Assess and enhance safety leadership competencies at all levels.
• Embed Human Factors thinking into the day-to-day activities of operation and maintenance line functions e.g. Site inspections, work permitting, pre and post job briefings, JSA.
• Develop communication campaign material for human factors e.g., pamphlets, presentations, videos.
• Provide training and awareness on different human factors topics.

Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree in engineering, industrial psychology, human factors or ergonomics.
• (Preferred) Masters and/or PhD in Human Factors, Ergonomics or Industrial Psychology.
• Five Years of Human Factors experience in the Oil and Gas industry (e.g. International Oil and Gas Companies, Consultancy firms, or EPC companies).
• (Preferred) Holds a recognized certification title in human factors such as Certified Human Factors Professional (CHFP), Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE), Chartered Ergonomics and Human Factors Specialist (C.ErgHF), European Ergonomist (Eur.Erg)
• Collaborative team player with excellent communication skills.

Working environment

• Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.
• At company, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none.
• And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.
• We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades.
• Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.
• Country/Region: SA