Overview

The primary function of the Senior Engineering Lead is to oversee the Engineering team, including planning, scheduling, and assigning projects and establishing successful relationships with customers. The Senior Engineering Lead will also consult and provide engineering design work per customer specifications.

Salary: $135,000- $160,000/yr DOE 

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and direct all activities of the engineering department including planning and managing technical performance to ensure quality and business objectives are achieved• Provide expertise necessary to assist in the designing, planning, execution, analysis, and reporting phases of test programs in accordance with customer specifications• Participate in the teaching of the three lightning courses offered by our facility• Participate in the preparation of proposals, proposal work statements and project specifications• Responsible for ensuring work is accomplished in a timely manner• Maintain contact and relationships with customer contacts and participate as necessary to cultivate new accounts.• Ensure Quality System requirements are being met by all department personnel at all times• Ensure compliance with all Company policies• Ensure adherence to all local, state, and federal laws pertaining to safety, environment, and corporate governance• Ensures productivity including performance management (OKRs)

Skills / Qualifications

• Minimum of 4-year degree in Electrical Engineering or Physics• At least 8 years of work-related experience• Previous experience leading and managing an engineering team• Experience with high voltage circuits a plus• Experience with lightning and lightning protection design a plus• Effective verbal and written communication skills• Ability to review performance, identify problems and implement solutions• An understanding of ISO 17025 is desirable but not essential• Flexibility to travel on an as needed basis• Experience with computer modeling, simulation and circuit analysis is desirable

Company Overview

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

Diversity Statement

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) 

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