Managing Director Thermal or Fire Protection 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 from automotive, construction, consumer products, consumer electronics and medical devices to name a few. 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 Who’s Who Legal.
This Managing Director role is an all-encompassing role that incorporates the management of client assignments, proactively identifying and participating in networking, and business development activities.
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
Job Requirements
REQUIREMENTS
- Established track record for business development and existing client-base
- Requisite professional degrees and ~10 years of work experience:
- PhD or MS degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Fire Protection Engineering
- 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
