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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”
- 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.
- Assess the user-interface or usability characteristics of products.
- Develop or implement human performance research, investigation, or analysis protocols.
- Prepare reports or presentations summarizing results or conclusions of human factors engineering or ergonomics activities, such as testing, investigation, or validation.
- Train users in task techniques or ergonomic principles.
- Collect data through direct observation of work activities or witnessing the conduct of tests.
- Conduct interviews or surveys of users or customers to collect information on topics such as requirements, needs, fatigue, ergonomics, or interfaces.
- Perform functional, task, or anthropometric analysis, using tools such as checklists, surveys, videotaping or force measurement.
- Advocate for end users in collaboration with other professionals including engineers, designers, managers, or customers.
- Recommend workplace changes to improve health and safety, using knowledge of potentially harmful factors, such as heavy loads or repetitive motions.
- 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.
- 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.
- Write, review, or comment on documents, such as proposals, test plans, or procedures.
- Establish system operating or training requirements to ensure optimized human-machine interfaces.
- 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.
- Inspect work sites to identify physical hazards.
- Estimate time or resource requirements for ergonomic or human factors research or development projects.
- Analyze complex systems to determine potential for further development, production, interoperability, compatibility, or usefulness in a particular area, such as aviation.
- Conduct research to evaluate potential solutions related to changes in equipment design, procedures, manpower, personnel, or training.
- Design or evaluate human work systems, using human factors engineering and ergonomic principles to optimize usability, cost, quality, safety, or performance.
- 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.
- Investigate theoretical or conceptual issues, such as the human design considerations of lunar landers or habitats.
- 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.
- Design cognitive aids, such as procedural storyboards or decision support systems.
Related Technology & Tools
- Hand sensor gloves
- Sling psychrometers
- Isokinetic dynamometers
- Touch screen monitors
- Computer laser printers
- Haptic devices
- Push/pull dynamometers
- Electronic distance measuring devices
- Personal computers
- Flight simulation equipment
- Hand dynamometers
- Laptop computers
- Motion capture systems
- Tablet computers
- Video projectors
- Digital video cameras
- Anthropometers
- Laser Doppler flowmeters
- Digital audio recorders
- Velometers
- Oxygen analyzers
- Desktop computers
- Algometers
- Electromagnetic motion analysis systems
- Octave band analyzers
- Digital force gauges
- Goniometers
- Microphones
- Lumbar motion monitors
- Noise meters
- Exercise treadmills
- Electroencephalography EEG equipment
- Torsiometers
- Inclinometers
- Light meters
- Electrocardiography EKG monitors
- Interactive whiteboards
- Electromyograph processing systems
- Video goggles
- Colorimeters
- Automated blood pressure measurement equipment
- Body fat measurement calipers
- Heat stress meters
- Heart rate monitors
- Manual blood pressure measurement equipment
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