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