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