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