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