Associate Director, Engineering Sciences

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Atlanta, GA, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Legal Tech
The Role
Lead and grow the Thermal/Engineering Sciences practice by winning business, recruiting and mentoring staff, managing projects and budgets, performing failure analyses across industrial facilities and products, producing expert reports, and providing testimony in depositions, trials, arbitrations, or hearings.
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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 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.

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 leading experts are recognized as leading experts in their field by the independent Lexology rankings.


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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Skills Required

  • Established track record for business development and existing client base
  • PhD or MS in Materials Science Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or similar
  • Approximately 5+ years of relevant work experience
  • Previous testimony experience in deposition, trial, arbitration, or hearings
  • Excellent expert report writing skills
  • Excellent verbal, written, technical, presentation, and listening skills
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Experience mentoring and driving growth of technical staff
  • Experience recruiting and attracting technical talent
  • Project management and project budget oversight experience
  • Desire to lead and perform auxiliary tasks associated with growing a practice
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The Company
Atlanta, Georgia
200 Employees

What We Do

Secretariat is a leading independent expert services and litigation consulting firm serving a wide range of clients globally. We specialize in international arbitration and litigation; large scale construction disputes, including delay and quantum analysis; forensic accounting; economic damages; and government contracting. Above all, experience is what makes us different. The depth of experience our talented people bring to every challenge. The authenticity clients experience throughout every relationship. This combination captures who we are and how we work, but most of all, creates the trust necessary to make great work possible when the pressure is on.

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