# Research Specialist - Human Factors Research

**Company**: 3M
**Location**: Maplewood, MN
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $145,676 - $178,049
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Manufacturing
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159433

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## Description

As a Research Specialist - Human Factors Research, you will apply human factors, ergonomics, biomechanics, perception science, and user research to support the development and commercialization of innovative PPE.

You will partner with product development, design, laboratory, regulatory, and business teams to translate user needs and human-performance evidence into product requirements, design decisions, validation methods, and substantiated claims.

Key responsibilities include:

- Designing and executing human factors, usability, comfort, fit, and performance studies for respiratory, eye, hearing, head, fall protection, and other safety products.

- Developing research plans, protocols, and experimental methods for laboratory and field research with end users.

- Conducting formative and summative usability studies and translating findings into actionable product and design requirements.

- Developing and validating methods supporting product performance, ergonomics, comfort, fit, and user-acceptance claims.

- Collecting and analyzing qualitative, quantitative, biomechanical, physiological, perceptual, and behavioral data.

- Applying statistical analysis and data visualization to communicate insights, risks, and recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.

- Collaborating with materials scientists, engineers, industrial designers, data scientists, software developers, regulatory specialists, customers, and safety professionals.

- Contributing to intellectual property, publications, standards activities, technical reports, and technology roadmaps.

The expected compensation range for this position is $145,676 - $178,049, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible.

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially.

## Skills

### Required
- Human Factors Engineering
- Ergonomics
- Kinesiology
- Biomechanics
- Psychology
- Industrial Engineering
- Biomedical Engineering
- Design Research
- User Experience Research

### Nice to have
- Advanced degree in Human Factors Engineering, Ergonomics, Kinesiology, Psychology, Biomechanics, Cognitive Science, Industrial Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
- Experience designing, executing, and analyzing usability, ergonomics, comfort, fit, or human-performance studies
- Experience applying statistics to research data and presenting technical conclusions to cross-functional stakeholders
- Experience supporting the development of PPE, safety products, medical devices, industrial equipment, or consumer products
- Expertise in human factors engineering, ergonomics, biomechanics, human performance, perception science, cognitive workload, comfort and fit, or occupational research

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