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