Staff Engineer

Intertek•Kentwood, MI

8d•Onsite

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 Transportation Technologies team in Kentwood, MI. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow a versatile career in automotive component certification. Intertek's Transportation Technologies team offers Total Quality Assurance expertise, delivered consistently with precision, pace and passion, enables our customers to power ahead safely. Our automotive, battery and energy storage, and related transportation industry testing and certification expertise is recognized by leading manufacturers worldwide for evaluating how their products and services meet and exceed quality, safety, sustainability and performance standards. 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

Bachelors degree in engineering
6+ years directly related experience making technical decisions and engineering judgments independently
Advanced experience with U.S., Canadian, and other International standards, i.e., FMVSS, ANSI, SAE, ASTM, IEC, etc.
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
Excellent leadership skills
Excellent interpersonal skills

Nice To Haves

Masters degree is preferred

Responsibilities

Providing technical expertise to personnel and operations at the local or regional level
Recommending and managing capital expenditure projects
Assessing and developing local training
Primary resource for review and approval of test procedures, methods and interpretations
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.
Research new standards, technologies, and trends in standards.
Develop and communicate test procedures.
Support accreditations activities such as audit follow-up and corrective actions.
Investigate technical complaints.
Audit and qualify sites for special Intertek programs.
Design new test fixtures and report shells.
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.