Managing Director, Polymer Engineere

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 Sciences 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 LNG production/storage, chemical processing, power generation, and new construction projects 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.

For this Managing Director role, we are looking for a Polymers Engineer or Scientist Leader that has strong proven experience in team building, team-based project execution, and top-notch client management.

Ideally the candidate will have deep hands-on experience with industrial facilities, including commissioning of facilities like LNG plants, chemical processing plants, power generation plants, and similar.

Further, a candidate with a background in the industrial requirements for the mitigation of dust and/or explosive materials is desirable.

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 attracting and winning new business opportunities for Secretariat in both expert witness and or strategic consulting.

Contributing to the growth of Secretariat's Polymers Science & Engineering practice by recruiting talented staff.

Mentoring and driving growth of Polymers Engineering team and providing project management and project budget oversight.

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 Polymer Science or Engineering - or with research in Polymers, degrees in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or Materials Science & 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 asso...