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