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