Senior Biomechanical Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Build out a scalable Biomechanical engineering consulting practice leveraging Mecanica Scientific’s culture to find and foster a team of biomechanical engineering experts focused on the analysis of occupant injuries and injury potential in highway vehicle crashes involving pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists, passenger car occupants, medium-duty truck and bus occupants, and heavy-duty truck and bus occupants.
• Foster a team of biomechanical engineering experts focused on the analysis of injuries in the premise liability case analysis segment.
• Participate in the Mecanica Leadership Team and organizational leadership work to foster collaboration between Mecanica’s branches of scientific and engineering work in the areas of highway vehicle crash reconstruction, human factors, commercial vehicle operations, Forensic Media Team
• Oversee and lead biomechanics projects related to human injury analysis.
• Analysis and review of technical biomechanical data focused on kinematics, dynamics, mechanisms of injury, and the human tolerance to the exposure of external forces, crash pulses, and fall exposures.
• Conduct and collaborate on research for the purposes of keeping a leading position on the latest research work by writing and presenting peer reviewed technical papers and scientific journal papers.
• Maintain active participation in key research and safety committees to promote and contribute to the continuing improvement to highway safety improvement.
• Uses computer assisted simulation and analysis tools such as MADYMO, xxx, yyyy.
• Utilizes data and analysis work obtained from field and vehicle inspections to collaborate with the crash reconstruction team.
• Conduct or collaborate with rapid response to field investigations of accidents requested by clients.
• Conduct or collaborate with field investigations of accidents, documents accident scene and vehicles using forensic documentation procedures.
• Reviews reports and various documents provided by engineering team and clients.
• Communicates with engineering team throughout individual projects.
• Timely submission of billing expenses and hours via Mecanica’s internal system platforms.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Qualifications

• Must possess a Master’s degree or Doctorate related to Biomechanics Engineering, Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• P.E. license is desired but not required.
• Minimum of eight (8) years of experience preferable in crashworthiness, occupant protection, or transportation and/or automobiles.