Associate, Engineering Sciences

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.

Responsibilities

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

• Supporting hands-on failure investigations including
• Comparison of as-built and existing conditions with the design
• Performing field and laboratory testing
• Assisting with field inspections
• Performing calculations
• Researching and data analysis
• Reviewing, sorting, and summarizing relevant documentation
• Drafting supporting verbiage for reports
• Helping with the creation of demonstratives
• Analyzing technical reports offered by others, and developing concurring and rebuttal positions
• Assisting with client communications in all time zones
• Developing positive relationships with colleagues, peers and clients
• Demonstrating excellent analytical skills with acute attention to detail to successfully achieve project milestones.
• Managing workload to achieve simultaneous project milestones while maintaining project schedules and budgets.
• Engage in guided and self-directed professional development through formal and informal training.

Qualifications

• Requisite professional designations and work experience:
• Bachelor's degree in Material Science Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Building Science/Architectural Engineering, Chemical Engineering or a similar designation. Advanced degree preferred.
• 1+ years of prior experience in forensic/root cause analysis.
• Pursuing PE credentials is a plus
• Skilled and proficient analytical and problem resolution abilities
• Excellent listening, verbal, written, technical, and presentation skills
• Proficient at technical writing skills to complement analytics
• Assimilate relevant information quickly and effectively in unfamiliar situations and develop creative approaches and solutions necessary to resolve complex problems
• Prioritize and manage time and resources with competing priorities and deadlines
• Manage external stakeholders
• Work independently whilst knowing which issues and risks need to be highlighted to senior staff, ideally accompanied by suggested viable solutions
• Passionate desire to join in with, and/or lead, auxiliary tasks associated with a growing practice within a rapidly growing firm
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Office products, including Excel and PowerPoint
• Willingness and ability to travel as needed
• Competency to working proficiency in a second non-English language is a plus

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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