Senior Consultant, Metallurgy Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION: 

Secretariat is a world-class independent expert advisory services firm that provides world-class expert witness, litigation support, investigative and advisory services to top companies and leading law firms on significant litigation matters and bet-the-company disputes and investigations. 

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, 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. 

Secretariat is a diversified international expert services firm with more than 500 professionals in 20+ cities around the global.  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 leading experts are recognized as leading experts in their field by the independent Lexology rankings. 

This Senior Consultant (which is the equivalent to a Manager at Secretariat) role will report to one of the internationally recommended experts and is an all-encompassing role that incorporates the management of client assignments, proactively identifying and participating in networking, and eventually business development activities. 

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Exceptional analytical skills, problem solving, communication skills, and creativity are the foundation for successful professionals at Secretariat.  

• Conducting hands-on failure analysis investigations 

• Performing laboratory tests 

• Assisting with field inspections 

• Assisting with client communications in all time zones 

• Performing technical analysis and drafting report sections 

• Analyzing technical reports offered by others, and developing rebuttal points 

• Developing positive relationships with colleagues, peers and clients 

QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Requisite professional designations and work experience:  

• PhD in Metallurgical Engineering or similar 

• Alternatively, MS degree with 3+ years of prior experience in either industry or engineering consulting  

• Excellent verbal and written communication  

• Efficient writing skills to complement analytics 

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

• The ability to manage and prioritize your time, potentially against a backdrop of competing deadlines 

• Excellent analytical and problem solving abilities 

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

• The desire to be a self-starter in a growing practice within a rapidly growing firm 

• The ability to travel globally as-needed 

• The ability to work odd hours to adjust for client needs globally