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