Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists

No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (80%).

• 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 incidence of injury.
• Train users in task techniques or ergonomic principles.
• Assess the user-interface or usability characteristics of products.
• 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.
• Integrate human factors requirements into operational hardware.
• Write, review, or comment on documents, such as proposals, test plans, or procedures.
• 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.
• 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.
• Recommend workplace changes to improve health and safety, using knowledge of potentially harmful factors, such as heavy loads or repetitive motions.
• Estimate time or resource requirements for ergonomic or human factors research or development projects.
• Design or evaluate human work systems, using human factors engineering and ergonomic principles to optimize usability, cost, quality, safety, or performance.
• Prepare reports or presentations summarizing results or conclusions of human factors engineering or ergonomics activities, such as testing, investigation, or validation.
• Inspect work sites to identify physical hazards.

• Develop or implement human performance research, investigation, or analysis protocols.
• 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.
• Advocate for end users in collaboration with other professionals, including engineers, designers, managers, or customers.