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