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