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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
Tasks for “Chief Engineer”
- Integrate human factors requirements into operational hardware.
- Prepare reports or presentations summarizing results or conclusions of human factors engineering or ergonomics activities, such as testing, investigation, or validation.
- 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.
- Write, review, or comment on documents, such as proposals, test plans, or procedures.
- Conduct interviews or surveys of users or customers to collect information on topics such as requirements, needs, fatigue, ergonomics, or interfaces.
- Review health, safety, accident, or worker compensation records to evaluate safety program effectiveness or to identify jobs with high incidents of injury.
- Advocate for end users in collaboration with other professionals including engineers, designers, managers, or customers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Collect data through direct observation of work activities or witnessing the conduct of tests.
- Analyze complex systems to determine potential for further development, production, interoperability, compatibility, or usefulness in a particular area, such as aviation.
- 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.
- Operate testing equipment, such as heat stress meters, octave band analyzers, motion analysis equipment, inclinometers, light meters, velometers, sling psychrometers, or colormetric detection tubes.
- Develop or implement human performance research, investigation, or analysis protocols.
- Train users in task techniques or ergonomic principles.
- Assess the user-interface or usability characteristics of products.
- 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.
- Conduct research to evaluate potential solutions related to changes in equipment design, procedures, manpower, personnel, or training.
- Establish system operating or training requirements to ensure optimized human-machine interfaces.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Goniometers
- Digital audio recorders
- Inclinometers
- Manual blood pressure measurement equipment
- Electromagnetic motion analysis systems
- Heart rate monitors
- Digital video cameras
- Heat stress meters
- Video projectors
- Interactive whiteboards
- Computer laser printers
- Isokinetic dynamometers
- Electrocardiography EKG monitors
- Hand dynamometers
- Automated blood pressure measurement equipment
- Laptop computers
- Touch screen monitors
- Video goggles
- Octave band analyzers
- Flight simulation equipment
- Hand sensor gloves
- Colorimeters
- Desktop computers
- Laser Doppler flowmeters
- Lumbar motion monitors
- Body fat measurement calipers
- Algometers
- Anthropometers
- Digital force gauges
- Torsiometers
- Electronic distance measuring devices
- Personal computers
- Electroencephalography EEG equipment
- Exercise treadmills
- Motion capture systems
- Microphones
- Noise meters
- Push/pull dynamometers
- Light meters
- Electromyograph processing systems
- Oxygen analyzers
- Velometers
- Sling psychrometers
- Tablet computers
- Haptic devices
- Mozilla Firefox
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- AJAX
- Dartfish ProSuite
- Adobe Systems Adobe Fireworks
- Dassault Systemes CATIA
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Computer aided design CAD software
- C++
- Microsoft Word
- The MathWorks Simulink
- Ovo Studios Ovo Logger
- JavaScript
- Apple Safari
- Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator
- Hypertext markup language HTML
- Triangle Research Collaborative Observational Coding System OCS Tools
- Cascading Style Sheets CSS
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- Seeing Machines faceLAB
- Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver
- TechSmith Camtasia
- jQuery
- SPSS
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
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- Data Translation quickDAQ
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- Microsoft Excel
- TechSmith Morae
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- Simulation software
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- The MathWorks MATLAB
- SAS
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- Statistical software
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- National Instruments LabVIEW
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- Dynamic hypertext markup language DHTML
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