Senior Staff Consultant (BME)

About This Role

Responsible for supporting the planning, directing, and coordinating activities of client projects and assisting senior technical staff to ensure that goals and objectives of the project(s) are accomplished within the prescribed time frame and funding parameters by performing the following duties personally and in coordination with other technical staff.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct field investigations/inspections as assigned.
• Participate in forensic investigations supporting product liability litigation matters.
• Assist industrial clients in intellectual property matters related to medical devices.
• Perform engineering analysis calculations, testing, and research; apply cutting-edge imaging, experimental, and analytical methods, including digital modeling and simulation, to assess biomaterials, surgical equipment, and medical devices.
• Assist clients with medical device development, advanced mechanical engineering design, and test engineering/custom test development efforts.
• Provide technical leadership in failure analysis studies, safety and functionality evaluations, remediation strategies, risk-based engineering, or scientific marketing campaigns when devices are in clinical use.
• Assist in marketing the group's technical capabilities to clients and the scientific community.
• Investigate, examine, and simulate the relationships between people and medical devices in specialized fields such as orthopaedics, spine, cardiology, neurology, ophthalmology, biology, and combination devices.
• Promote the group's technical capabilities to clients and the scientific community, develop new skills, and increase industry exposure through specialization in technical consulting.
• Assist in writing technical reports, perform research, and present technical material clearly and concisely to clients and team members.
• Assist in preparing well-developed technical presentations and delivering them clearly and concisely to clients and team members.
• Master and apply project management best practices, ensuring projects progress through fast-paced environments by establishing, reviewing, and adapting assigned portions of project scopes, schedules, and budgets.
• Ensure individual project responsibilities are resourced and managed to efficiently and effectively achieve overall project milestones and deliverables within budget constraints.
• Confer with project leader and personnel to resolve roadblocks on assigned project responsibilities.

Education Requirements:

• Master's degree in Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Polymer Science, or a related field from an accredited university with 5-7 years of relevant work experience; OR a Bachelor's degree in Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Polymer Science, or a related field from an accredited university with 7-10 years of relevant work experience.

Experience Requirements:

• Willingness to become a testifying subject matter expert.
• Experience and familiarity with laboratory procedures and testing, as well as the ability to execute and report on high-quality laboratory work.
• Knowledge of analytical techniques related to the failure of metals, alloys, composites, polymers, and glasses.
• R&D experience applicable to medical devices is highly desirable.
• Hands-on experience in test method development, data acquisition, and measurement system integration.
• Demonstrated ability to decompose complex problems into actionable task lists by applying technical and critical thinking skills.

Skills Required:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.
• A team player actively engaging others in accomplishing project work and office goals within their home office and across offices and other technical disciplines throughout ESi.
• Ability and desire to market ESi and grow the Biomedical Engineering specialty in the local and national markets.
• Project management expertise with experience managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong foundation in systems engineering, data science and analysis, and mechanical engineering design.
• Ability and desire to drive toward eventually becoming a Principal consultant within the firm.
• Ability to interact with coworkers and clients professionally and desire to develop business internally and externally.

Certifications:

• Professional Engineer Licensure preferred.
• RAC, PMP certifications are a plus.

Computer Skills Required:

• Intermediate/advanced skills in Excel
• Intermediate/advanced skills in Word
• Intermediate expertise in the use of engineering tools for testing, data analysis, and systems modeling (Solidworks, SpaceClaim, LabView, R, MATLAB, PYTHON, Abaqus, ANSYS, COMSOL, STAR-CCM+, Fluent, Analyze 14.0, FiJi/imageJ, etc.)
• Knowledge of fundamental computational methods (Finite Element Analysis and Computational Fluid Dynamics).

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. 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 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 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.

To all recruitment agencies: ESi does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or agencies. Any resume submitted to any employee of ESi without a prior written search agreement will be considered unsolicited and the property of ESi. Please, no phone calls or emails.