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