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Director, Engineering Sciences - Thermal, Fluids, and Combustion

Chart Your Journey at Secretariat. From a collaborative culture to teammates who will always be by your side, find a career that will grow with you. Deliver your impact at Secretariat.

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 worlds 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 todays most complex engineering challenges. You will be engaged in analyzing failures of a myriad of products from a variety of industries, 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 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.

Responsibilities

• Attracting and winning new business opportunities for Secretariat in both expert witness and strategic consulting
• Contributing to the growth of Secretariats 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 approximately 8+ years of work experience:
• PhD or MS degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Fire Protection Engineering
• 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

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