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Job Location drjobs

Ann Arbor, MI - USA

Yearly Salary drjobs

$ 90000 - 110000

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

About This Role

Working in a highly collaborative environment this job involves a wide variety of incident investigations including accident reconstruction. Projects require fieldwork investigation analysis product testing report development and legal testimony. This position requires human factors expertise as part of a multi-disciplinary team evaluating human factors and safety concerns across the full product lifecycle including product design development manufacture to accident investigation failure analysis and product recall. The candidate will be responsible for planning directing and coordinating activities of small to large scale client projects to ensure that goals and objectives are accomplished within prescribed timing and financial constraints by performing duties personally or in conjunction with other colleagues. Work will include review of existing scientific literature and standards; and the performance or supervision of original research to obtain and analyze relevant technical data. The candidate will interface with internal ESi consultants and directly with clients assessing client needs establishing performance timelines developing budgets and explaining complex technical concepts in lay terms.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Reviews project proposals or plans to determine time frame funding limitations procedures for accomplishing project staffing requirements and allotment of available resources to various phases of project.
  • Evaluates root causes in industrial transportation and consumer product accidents.
  • Confers with project personnel to provide technical advice and to resolve problems.
  • Identifies and reviews existing media (e.g. photographs video witness statements depositions police and OSHA reports drawings etc.) to develop preliminary conclusions and plan further investigation.
  • Conducts inspections of accident scenes and of involved or exemplar machines safety equipment consumer products and other items as needed.
  • Locates assesses pertinence of and applies consensus safety standards scientific literature existing test data and governmental regulations.
  • Designs and conducts testing and/or develops models to obtain and evaluate machine performance or human factors data.
  • As part of a team conducts risk assessments or job safety analyses for a variety of products and industrial machines.
  • Prepares written reports and verbal presentations of findings and conclusions in clear concise and easy-to-understand terms.
  • Prepares exhibits with visualization group to clearly communicate complex engineering concepts.
  • Manage projects from initiation to completion. Prepare technical project-related reports on a timely basis for clients as required.
  • Testify in court proceedings (depositions and/or trials) on behalf of clients as required.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education Requirement:

  • Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Human Factors Engineering Experimental Psychology Cognitive Psychology Industrial Engineering or related field required.
  • Masters Degree or Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Human Factors Engineering Experimental Psychology Cognitive Psychology Industrial Engineering or related field preferred.

Experience Requirements:

  • Up to 5 years work experience in the forensic field with experimental design human factors consulting statistical analysis and/or evidence examination. Related educational experience will also be considered.
  • Must have completed academic coursework or received comparable certification in the following topics: engineering neuropsychology human-computer interaction human factors and product design occupation biomechanics cognitive engineering and/or work physiology.
  • Experience in MATLAB psychopy and R and the ability to design and write original computational models of human performance and statistical analysis code is desirable.

Position Requirements:

  • Travel is required 25-30% of the time for this position.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job the employee is occasionally required to walk long distances stand for extensive periods negotiate irregular terrain walk up and down stairs and climb ladders; to utilize safety equipment including hard hats hearing and eye protection and safety harnesses; and to see hear and communicate audible or visible warnings.

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 the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job the employee is occasionally required to work outdoors at night in variable weather at heights alongside operating industrial machinery and/or around or under damaged or exemplar equipment or vehicles.

To all recruitment agencies: ESidoes 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.

It is the policy of ESI as an equal opportunity employer to attract and retain the best-qualified individuals available without regard to race/ethnicity color religion national origin gender sexual orientation age disability or veteran status. ESI is committed to recruiting hiring and promoting people with disabilities as well as veterans. If you need assistance with completing the electronic application please email your request to



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Employment Type

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