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Job Description
Design objects, facilities, and environments to optimize human well-being and overall system performance, applying theory, principles, and data regarding the relationship between humans and respective technology. Investigate and analyze characteristics of human behavior and performance as it relates to the use of technology.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-2112.01
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists”.
Also Known As…
- Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists
- User Experience Team Lead
- Senior Research Associate
- Principal Engineer
- PI/Senior Research Associate
- Managing Cognitive Engineer
- Human Factors Scientist
- Human Factors Engineer
- Human Factors Advisor, Lead
- Consultant in Ergonomics and Safety
- User Interface Designer
- Usability Specialist
- Usability Engineer
- Safety Specialist
- President Ergonomic Consulting
- Interface Designer
- Human Machine Interface Engineer (HMI Engineer)
- Human Factors Specialist
- Human Factors Ergonomist
- Ergonomist
- Ergonomics Engineer
- Ergonomics Consultant
- Ergonomic Specialist
- Engineering Psychologist
- Chief Engineer
Tasks for “Ergonomist”
- Prepare reports or presentations summarizing results or conclusions of human factors engineering or ergonomics activities, such as testing, investigation, or validation.
- Recommend workplace changes to improve health and safety, using knowledge of potentially harmful factors, such as heavy loads or repetitive motions.
- Advocate for end users in collaboration with other professionals including engineers, designers, managers, or customers.
- Assess the user-interface or usability characteristics of products.
- Apply modeling or quantitative analysis to forecast events, such as human decisions or behaviors, the structure or processes of organizations, or the attitudes or actions of human groups.
- Conduct research to evaluate potential solutions related to changes in equipment design, procedures, manpower, personnel, or training.
- Estimate time or resource requirements for ergonomic or human factors research or development projects.
- Develop or implement research methodologies or statistical analysis plans to test and evaluate developmental prototypes used in new products or processes, such as cockpit designs, user workstations, or computerized human models.
- Establish system operating or training requirements to ensure optimized human-machine interfaces.
- Analyze complex systems to determine potential for further development, production, interoperability, compatibility, or usefulness in a particular area, such as aviation.
- Collect data through direct observation of work activities or witnessing the conduct of tests.
- Inspect work sites to identify physical hazards.
- Provide technical support to clients through activities such as rearranging workplace fixtures to reduce physical hazards or discomfort or modifying task sequences to reduce cycle time.
- Conduct interviews or surveys of users or customers to collect information on topics such as requirements, needs, fatigue, ergonomics, or interfaces.
- Perform statistical analyses, such as social network pattern analysis, network modeling, discrete event simulation, agent-based modeling, statistical natural language processing, computational sociology, mathematical optimization, or systems dynamics.
- Investigate theoretical or conceptual issues, such as the human design considerations of lunar landers or habitats.
- Train users in task techniques or ergonomic principles.
- Review health, safety, accident, or worker compensation records to evaluate safety program effectiveness or to identify jobs with high incidents of injury.
- Design or evaluate human work systems, using human factors engineering and ergonomic principles to optimize usability, cost, quality, safety, or performance.
- Perform functional, task, or anthropometric analysis, using tools such as checklists, surveys, videotaping or force measurement.
- Design cognitive aids, such as procedural storyboards or decision support systems.
- Develop or implement human performance research, investigation, or analysis protocols.
- Provide human factors technical expertise on topics such as advanced user-interface technology development or the role of human users in automated or autonomous sub-systems in advanced vehicle systems.
- Integrate human factors requirements into operational hardware.
- Write, review, or comment on documents, such as proposals, test plans, or procedures.
- Operate testing equipment, such as heat stress meters, octave band analyzers, motion analysis equipment, inclinometers, light meters, velometers, sling psychrometers, or colormetric detection tubes.
Related Technology & Tools
- Body fat measurement calipers
- Electroencephalography EEG equipment
- Isokinetic dynamometers
- Computer laser printers
- Inclinometers
- Video goggles
- Heat stress meters
- Exercise treadmills
- Digital force gauges
- Algometers
- Laser Doppler flowmeters
- Electromyograph processing systems
- Electronic distance measuring devices
- Hand dynamometers
- Motion capture systems
- Hand sensor gloves
- Digital video cameras
- Personal computers
- Velometers
- Haptic devices
- Lumbar motion monitors
- Touch screen monitors
- Interactive whiteboards
- Oxygen analyzers
- Desktop computers
- Noise meters
- Heart rate monitors
- Digital audio recorders
- Torsiometers
- Push/pull dynamometers
- Electrocardiography EKG monitors
- Tablet computers
- Manual blood pressure measurement equipment
- Automated blood pressure measurement equipment
- Goniometers
- Electromagnetic motion analysis systems
- Light meters
- Microphones
- Video projectors
- Sling psychrometers
- Laptop computers
- Anthropometers
- Colorimeters
- Octave band analyzers
- Flight simulation equipment
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- Seeing Machines faceLAB
- Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver
- Mangold INTERACT
- AEMC DataView
- TechSmith Camtasia
- Microsoft Office
- SPSS
- The MathWorks Simulink
- Thought Technology BioGraph Infiniti
- Hypertext markup language HTML
- SAS
- Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Systems Adobe Fireworks
- Dynamic hypertext markup language DHTML
- jQuery
- Data Translation quickDAQ
- Microsoft Visio
- Noldus Information Technology The Observer XT
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- Triangle Research Collaborative Observational Coding System OCS Tools
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Noldus Information Technology uLog Pro
- Dassault Systemes CATIA
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Excel
- AJAX
- Dartfish ProSuite
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Adobe Systems Adobe Flash
- TechSmith Morae
- Microsoft Word
- Simulation software
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
- Mangold Soundalyzer
- Apple Safari
- Bit Debris Solutions Usability Activity Log
- Mozilla Firefox
- Noldus Information Technology FaceReader
- Oracle Java
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Altia Design
- Cascading Style Sheets CSS
- Statistical software
- JavaScript
- Mangold LogSquare
- C++
- Ovo Studios Ovo Logger