Title:

Sr. Staff (Consulting) Engineer
(Aviation/Aerospace, Motor Vehicles, or Metallurgy)

Company:  

Our client is a highly regarded, Dallas based, independent consulting firm that provides engineering consulting, testing, and research services to businesses in the private sector and entities of the U.S. Government.  These services include materials and mechanical engineering consultation in failure analysis, product design, accident investigation and reconstruction, process control, and material specification; metallurgy;  computer-aided engineering and finite element stress analysis; mechanical testing; scanning electron microscope analysis; and technical consultation and expert witness testimony in product liability cases.  

The Staff/Sr. Staff (Consulting) Engineer will report directly to the Company President and be responsible for performing professional research, development, design, testing and failure analysis activities.  In accomplishing this, the incumbent will perform in-depth engineering, analysis, and testing of mechanical functions and failures; conduct field accident investigations; create and maintain documentation for audit approval; make oral and written reports, evaluations and other communications to both technical and non-technical personnel; prepare and deliver proposals conveying innovative, leading edge engineering approaches to technical problems, and provide expert witness testimony as required.

The company is best known for their work in aviation and motor vehicle failure analysis.  Therefore, the successful candidate could possess expertise in either area, or in metallurgy in general.  This position requires a diversified knowledge of precedents in materials science and a broad, solid knowledge of principles and practices of mechanical engineering, manufacturing processes, and materials applications.  

The successful candidate MUST HAVE an advanced degree in Mechanical, Structural, Aeronautical, or Metallurgical Engineering or Materials Science, with Ph.D. preferred.  

Other desirable qualifications of the ideal candidate would include:

• Professional Engineer (PE) license or the qualifications and willingness to obtain a PE.

• Sufficient professional or consulting experience to assure technical competence in either the aviation/aerospace or motor vehicles arena, or metallurgy in general.

• The ability to devise new and innovative approaches to solving problems.

• Above average interpersonal and oral communication skills, including the ability to convey confidence and competency to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• The writing skills necessary to communicate in a manner that is founded in sound, established engineering principles, and presented in a clear and logical format that can be easily understood by non-technical personnel.

Contact:

For confidential consideration, qualified candidates may e-mail their resume as an attachment in MS Word format to: Info@MelanconCompany.com and reference "SCE Requirement."  Please, qualified candidates ONLY.