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