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Human Factor Lead

Parsippany, New Jersey - Posted on May 21, 2025
Published By Gwendolyn Wood

Trillium Professional is now seeking a Human Factor Lead in Parsippany, NY!

Reporting to the Medical affairs (MA), this role defines work roles and oversees human factors, user experience, and preclinical activities for direct reports and extended core-team team members. Ensures MA function has necessary skills and resources to execute on develop projects as part of business goals and associates are compliant in following company procedures. The Senior Manager will lead all Human Factor reviews and all related activity including management, schedule, and verifications. In this key strategic and technical leadership role, additional responsibilities will be to ensure collaboration with peer leaders across R&D, Quality, Marketing, Clinical and Scientific Affairs, Operations, R&D and Regulatory functions as well as any other key stakeholders including those external to company.

This person must ensure compliance with company ethics, quality policies, procedures, and practices through appropriate communication, training, and education of sound quality assurance principles. They must also ensure compliance with all local, state, federal, and embecta safety regulations, policies, and procedures. 

Job Duties:
-Guide completion of major programs, including Human Factors Validation in support of new product development and sustaining engineering.
-Collaborate with peer leaders in product development as well as technology development efforts.
-Partner internally and externally to implement best practices, regulatory standards and guidelines to generate high quality information to ensure innovative device design to meet unmet medical needs in alignment with the company mission.
-Manage the human factors activities defined in program goals such as: user interface, user experience, Instructions for Use (IFU), formative studies, and summative studies. 
-Help shape the overall vision and strategy for human factors engineering within company and support preclinical, clinical tests.
-Advise and inform the leadership staff to develop strategy, tactics, and execution of development plans.
-Provide expert guidance, technical & process insight for core teams to overcome challenges and meet business expectations for product development.
-Create a team culture that supports open communication, collaboration across teams and empowerment to employees

Pay rate is $72/hour. Apply now!

Experience and Education
-Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Human Factors/Ergonomics Engineering, Applied Science in Industrial Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Engineering Psychology, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a closely related technical or scientific degree is required.
-8+ years demonstrated experience (based on own subject matter expertise) in human factors engineering or equivalent user-based test experience.
-Established expertise in areas including risk management, user needs research such as: translating HF+UXD findings into user-needs/requirements, user risk, and/or design solutions related to the user interfaces, management of human factors and usability engineering file.
-Strong experience with relevant medical device standards, including IEC 62366-1, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, FDA Guidance for Design Controls.
-8+ years of experience in product development; Medical Device experience highly desired.
-Masters’ degree in Human Factors/Ergonomics Engineering, Applied Science in Industrial Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Engineering Psychology, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a closely related technical or scientific degrees are preferred.
-Excellent verbal and writing skills as well as presentation expertise to senior level leadership.
-Advanced leadership, interpersonal and influencing skills.
-Organizational awareness and ability to garner support at all levels for a course of action.
-Strong experience with relevant medical device standards, including IEC 62366-1, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, FDA Guidance for Design Controls.
-Demonstrated breadth and depth of technical, organizational and leadership capabilities, including strengths in most of the competency areas listed below and solid product development knowledge and expertise.


Trillium has been recruiting and placing clerical and office professionals for over 30 years. From Fortune 100 companies to small businesses, our philosophy remains the same: to achieve excellence by providing quality employees with an uncompromising level of service. We believe in honesty, integrity, and a simple philosophy of providing value to our customers and our employees. We strive to be unsurpassed in the recruitment and placement of professionals. Trillium is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Trillium offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes the ability to participate in health insurance and retirement plans, paid holidays, state required leave, and vacation days, if applicable. Trillium’s offerings are dependent on the state in which the assignment is located, length of time worked, and may change depending on assignment. Benefit packages for direct hire placements vary based on the client company.

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