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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”
- 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.
- Estimate time or resource requirements for ergonomic or human factors research or development projects.
- Integrate human factors requirements into operational hardware.
- Advocate for end users in collaboration with other professionals including engineers, designers, managers, or customers.
- 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.
- 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.
- Recommend workplace changes to improve health and safety, using knowledge of potentially harmful factors, such as heavy loads or repetitive motions.
- Design cognitive aids, such as procedural storyboards or decision support systems.
- Review health, safety, accident, or worker compensation records to evaluate safety program effectiveness or to identify jobs with high incidents of injury.
- Design or evaluate human work systems, using human factors engineering and ergonomic principles to optimize usability, cost, quality, safety, or performance.
- 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.
- 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.
- Train users in task techniques or ergonomic principles.
- Investigate theoretical or conceptual issues, such as the human design considerations of lunar landers or habitats.
- 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.
- Inspect work sites to identify physical hazards.
- Prepare reports or presentations summarizing results or conclusions of human factors engineering or ergonomics activities, such as testing, investigation, or validation.
- Establish system operating or training requirements to ensure optimized human-machine interfaces.
- 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.
- Conduct research to evaluate potential solutions related to changes in equipment design, procedures, manpower, personnel, or training.
Related Technology & Tools
- Tablet computers
- Digital force gauges
- Electrocardiography EKG monitors
- Hand dynamometers
- Algometers
- Digital video cameras
- Noise meters
- Video projectors
- Digital audio recorders
- Sling psychrometers
- Electromyograph processing systems
- Isokinetic dynamometers
- Octave band analyzers
- Exercise treadmills
- Electroencephalography EEG equipment
- Microphones
- Push/pull dynamometers
- Motion capture systems
- Electromagnetic motion analysis systems
- Colorimeters
- Torsiometers
- Haptic devices
- Manual blood pressure measurement equipment
- Light meters
- Laser Doppler flowmeters
- Velometers
- Computer laser printers
- Personal computers
- Heat stress meters
- Automated blood pressure measurement equipment
- Inclinometers
- Anthropometers
- Interactive whiteboards
- Lumbar motion monitors
- Laptop computers
- Body fat measurement calipers
- Video goggles
- Oxygen analyzers
- Desktop computers
- Goniometers
- Touch screen monitors
- Flight simulation equipment
- Hand sensor gloves
- Heart rate monitors
- Electronic distance measuring devices
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