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