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