Primary Job Title Principal Technologist Primary Organization BAE Systems
Location Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Female
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Jean has been a practicing Human Factors (HF) engineer in BAE Systems’s Air Sector since 1990 when she joined the BAE Systems research and technology department researching new Human Machine Interface (HMI) technologies in the context of future aircraft concepts. She is a chartered Ergonomist & Human Factors Engineer and a fellow of the
Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors
Jean was the HF lead on two aircraft programmes: The Nimrod MRA4 programme (1994-1999) and the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft (1999-2006) being responsible for the HF Integration programme elements including conducting HF analyses and ensuring that the HMI was designed according to human engineering principles and within agreed costs. This also involved providing design input and performing assessments of the developing design so as to ensure safe, reliable and efficient usage, and to increase system effectiveness. On the F-35 programme she was also ultimately responsible for the maintainer, trainer and builder human interfaces.
From 2006-2012 Jean was Head of the HF Shared Service at Warton, a team of Human Factors individuals who undertake a wide range of HF work on behalf of the MAI business. Since 2006, she has also been the Head of the HF Discipline within MAI, responsible for human factors capability and governance management and for performing specific human factors work including aircrew duty of care and future concept research. In 2015 she was appointed as the Human Factors Lead Technologist in MAI. She is also a BAE Systems Global Engineering Fellow.
