Human Factors Intern – User Interface

Job Description

1484 McDermott Laboratories Limited At VIATRIS, we see healthcare not as it is but as it should be. We act courageously and are uniquely positioned to be a source of stability in a world of evolving healthcare needs.

Viatris empowers people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life.

We do so via:

Access – Providing high quality trusted medicines regardless of geography or circumstance;
Leadership – Advancing sustainable operations and innovative solutions to improve patient health; and
Partnership – Leveraging our collective expertise to connect people to products and services.
Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment. For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world. Our Global Device Development is an innovative, technically-excellent and fully integrated organization, delivering access to high quality, safe, robust and effective device and combination products to meet the worlds’ evolving patient healthcare needs. We develop device technologies to enable drug-delivery for respiratory, biosimilar and injectable products, and work across Viatris to support innovative technology solutions to provide healthcare solutions for our patients. We operate from 4 sites: Dublin, Ireland, Cambridge & Sandwich, UK and Southpointe, Pittsburgh, USA. Every member of our team is dedicated to creating better health for a better world, one person at a time. The Role & What You Will Be Doing To support the User Interface Team in Usability Engineering activities. Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Human Factors Intern role will make an impact:

• Under the director of Supervisor or other UI Team members:
• Support a number of usability engineering programs; maintaining a current view of how FDA Quality Systems-Design Control requirements, IEC 62366, AAMI/ANSI HE75 are integrated in the process for developing high-quality combination products.
• Support User Interface design including Instructions for Use and Packaging.
• Support User Research into combination device users, intended use, user needs and use issues encountered with similar devices.
• Support the development of human factors usability evaluations from study design, sample preparation, use error root cause analysis, report reviews to results analysis.
• Input qualitative and quantitative user data into Viatris’s Risk Management program.
• Investigate and assess current databases to track and monitor marketed device combination product complaints on a range of global products.

About Your Skills & Experience For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

• Currently enrolled or a recent graduate at a Human Factors, Design or Engineering degree program, or a related field of study at an accredited college or university.
• Familiar with Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop.
• The ability to produce quality output within tight deadlines.
• Effective presentation skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong analytical skills, able to digest complicated data, perform analysis and produce clear findings.
• Comfortable working independently with minimal supervision.
• In depth knowledge of how Human Factors Engineering plays a key role in medical device development and integration into device design control is desirable but not essential.

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles. Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion Sustainability at Viatris Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.