Staff Engineer - Electrical Safety

Intertek US • Duluth, GA

75d

About The Position

Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety solutions to many of the world’s top-recognized brands and companies, is actively seeking a Staff Engineer to join our Electrical team in Duluth, GA. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow a versatile career facilitating international trade and regulatory product testing. Intertek's Electrical business line applies more than 100 years of product testing expertise to quickly and efficiently help clients meet safety, performance, environmental and quality requirements for every market. Spanning a wide range of industries such as Medical, Lighting, Renewable Energy, HVACR, Appliances & Electronics, Hazardous Locations, Industrial Equipment, Life Safety & Security, IT & Telecom Equipment, Intertek's global network of laboratories employ world-class experts in their fields who deliver quality, accurate testing and certification that continually exceeds our clients' expectations and helps to clear a path for their product's success. Intertek is continually innovating and evolving to reduce risk for consumers, brands and organizations in every sector and industry around the world. We go beyond Testing, Inspection and Certification of products: we are a Total Quality Assurance Provider to industries worldwide. Our Purpose: Bringing quality, safety, and sustainability to life.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• 6 years directly related experience
• Advanced experience with U.S., Canadian, and other international product safety standards, i.e., ANSI, CSA, UL, EN, IEC
• Ability to apply principles of logic or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems
• Ability to deal with non-verbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, etc.) in its most difficult phases
• Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables
• Ability to make technical decisions and engineering judgments independently where limited standardization exists
• Excellent communication skills, in both verbal and written formats
• Ability to travel 25%
• A valid driver's license and reliable driving record
• Applicants will be required to complete an I-9 to verify their eligibility to work in the U.S.
• Applicants must reside in and be able to legally work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree
• 10+ years directly related experience

Responsibilities

• Provide local management with technical assessment of engineering skills and performance levels.
• Responsible for assessing training of the technical staff and development of new training programs.
• Provide on-going support and guidance on technical issues, test procedures, and standards interpretations.
• Provides expertise in multiple product categories.
• Provide quotes for a large array of standards and complex projects and products.
• Research new standards, technologies, and trends in standards.
• Develop and communicate test procedures.
• Represent Intertek on technical committees, code panels and/or associations.
• Support accreditations activities such as audit follow-up and corrective actions.
• Investigate technical complaints.
• Audit and qualify sites for special Intertek programs.
• Actively review reports for multiple product categories.
• Design new test fixtures and report shells.
• Provide complex sales support such as giving presentations during client visits.
• Provide on-going support to clients as needed.
• Within policy guidelines, identify, properly document, and recommend engineering judgments.
• Recommend and prepare capital expenditure requests and manage capital projects.
• Mentor less senior technical staff.
• Develop, lead, and/or support testing, inspection and certification programs.
• Review project files for compliance with operating procedures.
• Make technical decisions relating to the interpretation of standards, applicability of standards and development of test programs.
• Participate in technical committees and standards development.
• Accomplish special assignments as directed by management.
• Perform other work as required.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life
• disability
• 401(k) with company match
• generous vacation / sick time (PTO)
• paid holidays
• tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees