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