Associate Director, Engineering Sciences

Secretariat

$120K — $150K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in engineering consulting with a focus on Thermal practices
  • PhD or MS in Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, or a relevant field
  • Proven track record in business development and client relationship management
  • Experience serving as an expert witness in legal proceedings
  • Strong report writing and analytical skills
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Leadership qualities and a desire to drive growth within the practice

Responsibilities

  • Attract and secure new business for expert witness and strategic consulting services
  • Recruit and develop talent for the Thermal practice
  • Mentor Thermal staff for professional growth
  • Oversee project management and budget responsibilities
  • Deliver exceptional analytical and problem-solving support for engineering challenges

Benefits

  • A culture driven by passion, pride, and performance
  • Opportunity to work on complex engineering challenges across diverse industries
  • Supportive environment focused on professional development and mentoring
  • Recognition for excellence in performance and teamwork
  • Engagement with a cohesive team of talented professionals
Full Job Description
ABOUT OUR ENGINEERING SCIENCES TEAM

As part of our expanding Global Engineering and Scientific consulting team, you will work at the forefront of today's most complex engineering challenges. You will be engaged in analyzing failures of a myriad of products from a variety of industries, but with a heavy focus on large industrial facilities like power plants, Oil & Gas facilities, chemical processing plants, construction, and similar. Outside of that work, you will be engaged in automotive, consumer products, consumer electronics, and medical devices.

Secretariat leverages our diverse technical expertise and industry knowledge of a variety of structures and products to provide clients with world-class value to identify solutions that drive performance and safety.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Exceptional analytical skills, problem solving, communication skills, and creativity are the foundation for successful professionals at Secretariat.
  • Attracting and winning new business opportunities for Secretariat in both expert witness and or strategic consulting
  • Contributing to the growth of Secretariat's Thermal practice by recruiting talented staff
  • Mentoring and driving growth of Thermal staff
  • Providing project management and project budget oversight


QUALIFICATIONS
  • Established track record for business development and existing client-base
  • Requisite professional degrees and ~ 5+ years of work experience:
    • PhD or MS degree in Materials Science Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or similar
    • Excellent verbal and written communication
  • Have previously testified in deposition, trial, arbitration or hearings
  • Excellent expert report writing skills to complement analytics
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Excellent listening, verbal, written, technical, and presentation skills
  • The desire to lead, auxiliary tasks associated with a growing practice within a rapidly growing firm


A rewarding career above all

There are a lot of fine consulting firms out there. But when everything is on the line, it takes a unique combination of skill and savvy to succeed under pressure.

Our culture and people are driven by passion, pride, and performance. Passion for the clients we serve, the work we deliver, and the communities we live in. Pride in our cohesive team recognized for excellence and trusted to perform in the most challenging situations. And our track record of outstanding performance across all of our disciplines speaks for itself.

Our people are motivated to be the best in everything they do - from our approach to making the complex simple to the way we mentor our up-and-coming talent to become trusted experts early in their careers.

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