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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
- Principal Engineer
- 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
- Senior Research Associate
- Safety Specialist
- 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 “Senior Research Associate”
- 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.
- Inspect work sites to identify physical hazards.
- Recommend workplace changes to improve health and safety, using knowledge of potentially harmful factors, such as heavy loads or repetitive motions.
- 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.
- 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.
- Collect data through direct observation of work activities or witnessing the conduct of tests.
- Review health, safety, accident, or worker compensation records to evaluate safety program effectiveness or to identify jobs with high incidents of injury.
- Train users in task techniques or ergonomic principles.
- Perform functional, task, or anthropometric analysis, using tools such as checklists, surveys, videotaping or force measurement.
- Establish system operating or training requirements to ensure optimized human-machine interfaces.
- 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.
- Advocate for end users in collaboration with other professionals including engineers, designers, managers, or customers.
- Write, review, or comment on documents, such as proposals, test plans, or procedures.
- Design cognitive aids, such as procedural storyboards or decision support systems.
- Conduct interviews or surveys of users or customers to collect information on topics such as requirements, needs, fatigue, ergonomics, or interfaces.
- 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.
- Estimate time or resource requirements for ergonomic or human factors research or development projects.
- Assess the user-interface or usability characteristics of products.
- 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.
- Integrate human factors requirements into operational hardware.
- 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.
- Conduct research to evaluate potential solutions related to changes in equipment design, procedures, manpower, personnel, or training.
Related Technology & Tools
- Electromagnetic motion analysis systems
- Digital audio recorders
- Automated blood pressure measurement equipment
- Video goggles
- Manual blood pressure measurement equipment
- Electromyograph processing systems
- Inclinometers
- Light meters
- Digital video cameras
- Video projectors
- Sling psychrometers
- Hand dynamometers
- Heat stress meters
- Desktop computers
- Heart rate monitors
- Octave band analyzers
- Electroencephalography EEG equipment
- Interactive whiteboards
- Flight simulation equipment
- Motion capture systems
- Push/pull dynamometers
- Computer laser printers
- Algometers
- Colorimeters
- Exercise treadmills
- Body fat measurement calipers
- Oxygen analyzers
- Laptop computers
- Anthropometers
- Lumbar motion monitors
- Digital force gauges
- Tablet computers
- Touch screen monitors
- Hand sensor gloves
- Microphones
- Personal computers
- Velometers
- Laser Doppler flowmeters
- Electrocardiography EKG monitors
- Goniometers
- Torsiometers
- Haptic devices
- Isokinetic dynamometers
- Noise meters
- Electronic distance measuring devices
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