Senior Managing Biomechanist (Accident Reconstruction)

YA Group•Tampa, FL

2d•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Managing Biomechanist leads a team of expert engineering staff in human-injury analysis in vehicular accidents, premises liability and slip-and-fall incidents. Analyses of injury biomechanics may require reconstructing vehicular accidents, slip-and-fall incidents or determination of factors responsible for development of the incident. This position requires extensive experience in forensic biomechanical analyses. This role performs investigations focusing on musculoskeletal biomechanics to determine the relationship between accident modes and injuries, requires evaluation and analysis of biomechanical systems including voluntary and involuntary human motions, assessment of situations leading to the accident, and reconstructing the accidents. The role ideally includes familiarity with legal depositions, working with attorneys and claims adjusters. Additionally, the ideal candidate has an established network of external clientele and is experienced with building, establishing and maintaining rapport with this network. This is a fully remote role open to candidates located anywhere in the United States. Candidates located in the listed states are encouraged to apply.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in biomechanics, accident reconstruction, and premises liability work or similar required.
Degree in Mechanical or Biomedical Engineering required
PE license, PhD, SAE certification and/or ACTAR certification required
Demonstrated success establishing clientele and rapport with insurance carriers, lawyers, and adjusters
Extensive experience providing expert deposition and courtroom testimony
Advanced proficiency in CAD as applied to accident reconstruction and forensic analysis
Strong background working with automotive engineering and automotive control systems
Comfortable operating in a billable, project‑based consulting environment
Experience collaborating with forensic animators to develop high‑quality visual exhibits for depositions and trial presentations
Experience performing, evaluating, and interpreting computer simulations
Based in (or planning to relocate to) the job location
Collaborative, team‑oriented professional with a commitment to continuous learning and development

Nice To Haves

Established network of external clientele
Familiarity with legal depositions
Working with attorneys and claims adjusters

Responsibilities

Lead a team of experts in conducting detailed inspections of vehicles and accident sites and accurately analyze crash sequences to identify contributing factors and the induced loading on the occupants.
Use computer models to reconstruct accidents and to measure load and injury levels.
Support business development efforts by building and maintaining rapport with current clients and generating new work for themselves and a team of experts supporting them.
Partner with business development representatives, attend conferences and events to promote the company and skills of expert staff.
Communicate with clients and team regarding scope of work, investigation tasks, budget, and ensures all project completion timelines, deadlines and deliverables are met.
Ensure workload is evenly distributed amongst experts.
Mentor, leads and guides a team of experts in all aspects of project work.
Provide expert testimony at trials, depositions, or other legal proceedings and communicate investigative findings in a manner easily understood by technical or non-technical audiences.
Inspect and measures vehicles.
Review various documents to identify relevant information for an accident reconstruction or biomechanical engineering analysis (includes police reports, medical records, depositions, expert reports, legal pleadings and discovery documents, videos, photographs, etc.).
Perform simulations of vehicular collisions using advanced collision reconstruction software such as PC-Crash, Virtual Crash or HVE (or similar).
Evaluate the effects of impact forces on occupants as a result of vehicular accidents.
Determine human injury mechanisms in vehicular accidents and premises liability cases such as slip-and-fall accidents.
Perform accident reconstructions of single-vehicle rollovers, single-vehicle impacts with fixed objects, and multi-vehicle collisions (frontal, side, rear, and sideswipe).
Utilize engineering principles to calculate factors such as impact and departure speeds, collision forces, and trajectories of vehicles.
Compare calculations with crash test reports of similar collisions to correlate damages based on calculated velocities.
Review papers and journals related to vehicular accident reconstruction to understand and advance the scientific techniques used in reconstruction work.
Provide written conclusions of findings to assist others in understanding the evidence or in determining the facts at issue.