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