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