Staff Consultant - Biomechanics

About This Role

The job involves participation in a wide variety of incident investigations, including accident reconstruction. Projects require fieldwork, investigation, analysis, report development, and legal testimony at deposition, trial, or other legal venues. The candidate will provide biomechanics expertise as part of a multi-disciplinary team evaluating accidents of various types and specifically addressing injury causation. The candidate will be responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating activities of small to large-scale client projects to ensure that goals and objectives are accomplished within prescribed timing and financial constraints by performing duties personally or in conjunction with other consultants.

Key Responsibilities:

• Performs human-injury analysis of vehicular accidents in all transportation modes, including accident reconstruction, injury modeling, and the evaluation of mechanical failures.
• Evaluates injury mechanisms in industrial and recreational accidents, including those resulting from mechanical failures, falls, and falling objects.
• Project duties will include recruitment, staffing, logistics, and work plan development, as well as technical analysis based on scientific principles.
• Interfaces directly with clients, assessing client needs, establishing performance timelines, developing budgets, and explaining complex technical concepts in lay terms.
• Identifies and reviews existing media (e.g., photographs, video, witness statements, depositions, police and autopsy reports, medical records, etc.) to develop preliminary conclusions and plan further investigation.
• Conducts inspections of accident scenes and of involved or exemplar vehicles, safety equipment, consumer products, and other items as needed.
• Supervises original research to obtain and analyze relevant technical data.
• Locates and assesses pertinence of scientific literature, existing test data, and governmental regulations.
• Designs and conducts testing and/or develops models to obtain and evaluate impact dynamics data.
• Conducts analyses of human motion and anthropometry.
• Assists in all phases of project management from proposal through closing.
• Prepares written reports of findings and conclusions in clear, concise, easy-to-understand terms.
• Provides legal testimony in a variety of venues, including courtroom settings.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• May work under the direction of senior consulting staff regarding any of the above responsibilities.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical or Biomedical Engineering. Masters or PhD in Mechanical or Biomedical preferred.

Experience Requirements:

• Two to five years' work and/or equivalent academic experience in a forensic or relevant industrial biomechanics position.
• Experience working in the transportation industry, teaching experience, and/or in-depth knowledge of human anatomy.
• Experience managing projects of moderate to substantial complexity and/or size.
• Authoring of high-quality technical reports and/or peer-reviewed publications is highly preferred.
• Delivery of technical presentations at professional conferences is highly preferred.
• Preferred experience in the consulting industry.
• Background in forensic field preferred; experience working directly with insurance industry representatives or attorneys and providing expert testimony is highly desirable.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.), or the ability to obtain a P.E. license preferred.

Computer Skills:

• Full competency in office productivity software, and advanced skills in technical computing environments.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to walk long distances, stand for extensive periods, negotiate irregular terrain, walk up and down stairs, and climb ladders; to utilize safety equipment including hard hats, hearing and eye protection, and safety harnesses; and to see, hear, and communicate audible or visible warnings.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to work outdoors, at night, in variable weather, at heights, alongside operating industrial machinery, and/or around or under damaged or exemplar equipment or vehicles.

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It is the policy of ESi, as an equal opportunity employer, to attract and retain the best-qualified individuals available, without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status. ESi is committed to recruiting, hiring, and promoting people with disabilities, as well as veterans. If you need assistance with completing the electronic application, please email your request to employment@engsys.com.