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