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