Staff Consultant (Rail Metallurgy)

About This Role

Responsible for assisting with a variety of engineering tasks focused on materials, failure analysis, mechanical design and engineering analysis. Your role will involve supporting both mechanical and metallurgical analysis-including laboratory testing, materials evaluation, and investigations into material failures. You will assist in computer modeling, test design and experiments, instrumentation, and fabrication and testing. Work environments will range from the office to the lab, and occasionally work will be performed in the field. You will be responsible for planning and executing tests, as well as completing project goals/objectives that are accomplished within the prescribed timeframe with the assistance of Staff Consultants, Senior Consultants, and/or Senior Managing Consultants.

What We Can Offer You

• Medical, Dental & Vision
• Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance/Universal Life Insurance
• 401k with employer match
• Eligible for Awards Program, Merit Bonus, and/or Annual Bonus
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) - encouraged to take 20 days of paid time off/year
• Administrative & Technical Staff Support
• Pet Insurance
• Work/Life Balance
• Access to Wellbeats - on-demand fitness & well-being videos
• 10 paid holidays (9 standard holidays and 1 floating holiday)
• 30-minute fitness break available in addition to 1-hour lunch break
• Wellness Reimbursement
• Business casual dress code and positive working environment
• Continuing education opportunities

Key Responsibilities:

• Works with other team members to perform failure analysis, and cause finding.
• Designs tests or fixtures to complete tests, takes test data and analyzes and prepares charts, graphs, sketches, diagrams, flow charts, and compiles and records engineering data to clarify design details or functional criteria.
• Understands and works with servo hydraulic test frames and systems.
• Participates in field investigations and testing
• Participates in fabricating, installing, and modifying equipment test equipment and prototypes.
• Confers with project personnel to provide technical advice and resolve problems.
• Assists in preparing and conducting well- developed and well-prepared client presentations and technical conference presentations.
• Mechanical modeling using Solidworks

Education Required:

• Bachelor's degree required in Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Science/Applied Mechanics, Engineering Mechanics.
• Master's degree preferred in Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Science/Applied Mechanics, Engineering Mechanics.

Experience Requirements:

• Experience in the mass transit / railroad industry is preferred but not mandatory.
• Experience with bandsaw usage, and other sectioning equipment
• Experience with metallurgical sample preparation
• Experience with Optical or Digital Microscopes
• Experience with Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Energy Dispersive spectroscopy
• Experience with various hardness testers, Rockwell, Brinell, Microhardness
• Experience setting up and performing tests and testing with complex instrumentation (strain gauges, load cells, etc.)
• Prior experience with railroad engineering analysis or testing preferred.
• Operating hydraulic test equipment such as MTS or Instron load frames.
• Good understanding of mechanical engineering design concepts and stress analysis
• Background or familiarity with rail preferred but not required.

Computer Skills:

• Intermediate/advanced skills in Excel, Word, and Internet software skills.
• Experience with data acquisition and testing software such as Dewesoft X or LabVIEW preferred.
• Matlab or Python preferred
• Solidworks or other 3D-Modeling package preferred.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• Successful Completion of FE exam (or the ability to complete FE exam), preferred.

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 of this job. While performing the duties of this job the employee will be required to stand, crawl sometimes in confined spaces, walk on uneven work surfaces or elevated areas such as roofs and balconies, climb ladders, sit, and occasionally lift up to 50lbs.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that an employee will be exposed to while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job. While performing inspections in exterior, interior, rooftop, crawl space, attic space, water structures, inspections from a small boat, along with typical office-related work. The work will involve performing these duties out of doors from time to time in extreme and varied climate conditions.

To all recruitment agencies: ESi does 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 employment@engsys.com