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