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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
- 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
- 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
Tasks for “Chief Engineer”
- Collect data through direct observation of work activities or witnessing the conduct of tests.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Advocate for end users in collaboration with other professionals including engineers, designers, managers, or customers.
- Integrate human factors requirements into operational hardware.
- 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.
- Train users in task techniques or ergonomic principles.
- 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.
- Assess the user-interface or usability characteristics of products.
- Write, review, or comment on documents, such as proposals, test plans, or procedures.
- Establish system operating or training requirements to ensure optimized human-machine interfaces.
- 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.
- Inspect work sites to identify physical hazards.
- Conduct research to evaluate potential solutions related to changes in equipment design, procedures, manpower, personnel, or training.
- Conduct interviews or surveys of users or customers to collect information on topics such as requirements, needs, fatigue, ergonomics, or 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 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.
- 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.
- Recommend workplace changes to improve health and safety, using knowledge of potentially harmful factors, such as heavy loads or repetitive motions.
Related Technology & Tools
- Computer laser printers
- Flight simulation equipment
- Electronic distance measuring devices
- Noise meters
- Isokinetic dynamometers
- Hand sensor gloves
- Microphones
- Push/pull dynamometers
- Video projectors
- Digital video cameras
- Electroencephalography EEG equipment
- Torsiometers
- Interactive whiteboards
- Electrocardiography EKG monitors
- Octave band analyzers
- Digital audio recorders
- Velometers
- Electromyograph processing systems
- Heat stress meters
- Body fat measurement calipers
- Oxygen analyzers
- Video goggles
- Lumbar motion monitors
- Automated blood pressure measurement equipment
- Anthropometers
- Inclinometers
- Desktop computers
- Electromagnetic motion analysis systems
- Colorimeters
- Laser Doppler flowmeters
- Exercise treadmills
- Sling psychrometers
- Heart rate monitors
- Hand dynamometers
- Light meters
- Digital force gauges
- Laptop computers
- Haptic devices
- Tablet computers
- Algometers
- Personal computers
- Manual blood pressure measurement equipment
- Goniometers
- Touch screen monitors
- Motion capture systems
- SAS
- National Instruments LabVIEW
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- AEMC DataView
- Mangold Soundalyzer
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- Microsoft Visio
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Simulation software
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- Hypertext markup language HTML
- Microsoft Office
- The MathWorks Simulink
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Mozilla Firefox
- Statistical software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word
- Noldus Information Technology uLog Pro
- Triangle Research Collaborative Observational Coding System OCS Tools
- Cascading Style Sheets CSS
- Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver
- Mangold INTERACT
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- JavaScript
- Noldus Information Technology The Observer XT
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- AJAX
- Altia Design
- SPSS
- Apple Safari
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- Data Translation quickDAQ
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- C++
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- The MathWorks MATLAB
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