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