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