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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 the ambition, energy, and commitment they bring to every challenge. 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. Generally, our mechanical engineering sciences team engages in review of automotive, consumer products, consumer electronics, medical devices, and the built world. For our construction services team, mechanical engineers specialize in the design, construction, and materials of buildings/high-rises, bridges, retaining walls, and other structures that create our built world.

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

Secretariat is a diversified international expert services firm with more than 500 professionals in 20+ cities around the globe. Furthermore, Secretariat was recently ranked as the #1 firm in Global Arbitration Review’s prestigious GAR 100 Expert Witness Firms’ Power Index, and more than 90% of Secretariat’s experts are recognized by the independent Lexology rankings as leading experts in their field.

RESPONSIBILITIES 

Exceptional analytical skills, problem solving, communication skills, and creativity are the foundation for successful professionals at Secretariat. With those attributes, you will be:

• Conducting hands-on failure investigations including

• Comparison of the original design to as-built and existing conditions

• Performing field and laboratory testing

• Assisting with field inspections

• Performing calculations

• Researching and analyzing data

• Reviewing, sorting, and summarizing relevant documentation

• Drafting supporting verbiage for reports

• Creating 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 successfully achieve project milestones.

• Managing workload to achieve simultaneous project milestones while maintaining project schedules and budgets.

• Engage in guided and self-directed professional development through formal and informal training.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Requisite professional designations and work experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Building Science/Architectural Engineering, or similar. Advanced degree preferred.

• 2+ years of prior experience in forensic/root cause analysis or MEP design engineering.

• Pursuing PE credentials is a plus

• Skilled and proficient analytical and problem resolution abilities

• Excellent listening, verbal, written, technical, and presentation skills

• Proficient at technical writing skills to complement analytics

• Assimilate relevant information quickly and effectively in unfamiliar situations and develop creative approaches and solutions necessary to resolve complex problems

• Prioritize and manage time and resources with competing priorities and deadlines

• Manage external stakeholders

• Work independently whilst knowing which issues and risks need to be highlighted to senior staff, ideally accompanied by suggested viable solutions

• Passionate desire to join and/or lead auxiliary tasks associated with 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