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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”
- 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.
- Establish system operating or training requirements to ensure optimized human-machine interfaces.
- Develop or implement human performance research, investigation, or analysis protocols.
- 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.
- Collect data through direct observation of work activities or witnessing the conduct of tests.
- Recommend workplace changes to improve health and safety, using knowledge of potentially harmful factors, such as heavy loads or repetitive motions.
- 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.
- Operate testing equipment, such as heat stress meters, octave band analyzers, motion analysis equipment, inclinometers, light meters, velometers, sling psychrometers, or colormetric detection tubes.
- Estimate time or resource requirements for ergonomic or human factors research or development projects.
- Assess the user-interface or usability characteristics of products.
- 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.
- Train users in task techniques or ergonomic principles.
- Design or evaluate human work systems, using human factors engineering and ergonomic principles to optimize usability, cost, quality, safety, or performance.
- 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 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.
- Inspect work sites to identify physical hazards.
- Design cognitive aids, such as procedural storyboards or decision support systems.
- 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.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Digital force gauges
- Heart rate monitors
- Manual blood pressure measurement equipment
- Laser Doppler flowmeters
- Velometers
- Touch screen monitors
- Desktop computers
- Flight simulation equipment
- Microphones
- Algometers
- Video goggles
- Push/pull dynamometers
- Sling psychrometers
- Heat stress meters
- Body fat measurement calipers
- Octave band analyzers
- Colorimeters
- Inclinometers
- Noise meters
- Haptic devices
- Electromagnetic motion analysis systems
- Interactive whiteboards
- Hand sensor gloves
- Exercise treadmills
- Light meters
- Oxygen analyzers
- Electromyograph processing systems
- Isokinetic dynamometers
- Computer laser printers
- Hand dynamometers
- Motion capture systems
- Laptop computers
- Personal computers
- Anthropometers
- Electroencephalography EEG equipment
- Electrocardiography EKG monitors
- Goniometers
- Digital audio recorders
- Automated blood pressure measurement equipment
- Lumbar motion monitors
- Tablet computers
- Torsiometers
- Digital video cameras
- Electronic distance measuring devices
- Video projectors
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- Hypertext markup language HTML
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