Associate, Engineering Sciences

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About The Firm

Secretariat professionals are trusted in the highest-stakes legal, risk, and regulatory matters around the world. When you join Secretariat, you become part of a rapidly growing elite team of bright minds and passionate problem-solvers. Your skills and expertise will be utilized on day one – working with the world’s most renowned law firms, leading corporations, and influential institutions to answer complex questions that shape critical financial, economic, and strategic business decisions.

Our globally integrated teams are united by ambition, energy, and commitment. We inspire and empower an open, collaborative culture that embraces ongoing professional development, recognition, diversity, and most importantly you. Make your impact at Secretariat.

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 may be engaged in analyzing failures of a myriad of products from a variety of industries, focusing on large industrial power, oil and gas, chemical or similar processes and machinery, as well as automotive, consumer products, consumer electronics and medical devices. Outside of that, our construction team specializes in buildings / high-rises, bridges, retaining walls, and other structures that shape our built world.

Secretariat leverages diverse technical expertise and industry knowledge to provide clients with world-class value, identifying solutions that drive performance and safety.

Responsibilities

• Supporting hands-on failure investigations
• Comparing as-built and existing conditions with the design
• Performing field and laboratory testing
• Assisting with field inspections
• Performing calculations
• Researching and data analysis
• Reviewing, sorting, and summarizing relevant documentation
• Drafting supporting verbiage for reports
• Helping with the creation of demonstratives
• Analyzing technical reports offered by others and developing concurring and rebuttal positions
• Assisting with client communications in all time zones
• Developing positive relationships with colleagues, peers, and clients
• Demonstrating excellent analytical skills with acute attention to detail to achieve project milestones
• Managing workload to meet simultaneous project milestones while maintaining schedules and budgets
• Engaging in guided and self-directed professional development through formal and informal training

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Material Science Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Building Science / Architectural Engineering, Chemical Engineering or similar. Advanced degree preferred.
• 1+ years of prior experience in forensic / root-cause analysis
• PE credentials in progress is a plus
• Strong analytical and problem-resolution abilities
• Excellent listening, verbal, written, technical, and presentation skills
• Proficiency in technical writing to complement analytics
• Ability to assimilate relevant information quickly and develop creative solutions for complex problems
• Prioritize and manage time and resources with competing priorities and deadlines
• Manage external stakeholders and know when to highlight issues and risks to senior staff, proposing viable solutions
• Passionate desire to join and/or lead auxiliary tasks in a growing practice within a rapidly growing firm
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Office products, including Excel and PowerPoint
• Willingness and ability to travel as needed
• Working proficiency in a second non-English language is a plus

A rewarding career above all.

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. Our track record of outstanding performance across all our disciplines speaks for itself.

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