Job Description:

The job involves participation in a wide variety of incident investigations, including accident reconstruction. Projects require field work, 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, to include 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 time lines, 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.
• Mentors early career employees in growth and development.
• Actively seek to develop professionally in skills, experience, and industry reputation.

Education Requirements:

• Masters or PhD in Mechanical or Biomedical preferred.

Experience Requirements:

• 8 to 10 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 highly preferred.
• Delivery of technical presentations at professional conferences highly preferred.
• Preferred experience in consulting industry.
• Background in forensic field preferred; experience working directly with insurance industry representatives or attorneys and providing expert testimony is highly desirable.

Computer Skills:

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

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) preferred.

Compensation will be made up of a competitive base salary as well as bonus potential determined by your own individual performance and the performance of the organization overall.

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 the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb stairs and ladders, and sit. Site inspections may require that employees stand, walk, carry tools, and/or work from an elevated position for extended periods of time.

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 the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Noise levels at project sites are variable, and may be loud enough to require hearing protection.

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