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    Secretariat

    Investment Banking

    Associate Director, Engineering Sciences - Chemist

    Atlanta, United StatesOn-SiteFull-timePosted 2mo ago
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    Job description

    Chart Your Journey at Secretariat

    From a collaborative culture to teammates who will always be by your side, find a career that will grow with you. Deliver your impact at Secretariat.

    ABOUT THE FIRM

    Secretariat professionals are trusted in the highest-stakes legal, risk, and regulatory matters around the world.

    When you join Secretariat, you become part of a rapidly growing elite team of bright minds and passionate problem-solvers. Your skills and expertise will be utilized on day one – working with the world’s most renowned law firms, leading corporations, and influential institutions to answer complex questions that shape critical financial, economic, and strategic business decisions.

    Our globally integrated teams are united by the ambition, energy, and commitment they bring to every challenge. We inspire and empower an open, collaborative culture that embraces ongoing professional development, recognition, diversity, and – most importantly – you.

    Make your impact at Secretariat.

    ABOUT OUR ENGINEERING SCIENCES TEAM

    As part of our expanding Global Engineering and Scientific consulting team, you will work at the forefront of today’s most complex engineering challenges. You will be engaged in analyzing failures of a myriad of products from a variety of industries, but with a heavy focus on large industrial facilities like power plants, Oil & Gas facilities, chemical processing plants, construction, and similar. Outside of that work, you will be engaged in automotive, consumer products, consumer electronics, and medical devices.

    Secretariat leverages our diverse technical expertise and industry knowledge of a variety of structures and products to provide clients with world-class value to identify solutions that drive performance and safety.

    Secretariat is a diversified international expert services firm with more than 500 professionals in 20+ cities around the globe. Furthermore, Secretariat was recently ranked as the #1 firm in Global Arbitration Review’s prestigious GAR 100 Expert Witness Firms’ Power Index, and more than 90% of Secretariat’s leading experts are recognized as leading experts in their field by the independent Lexology rankings.

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    Exceptional analytical skills, problem-solving, communication skills, and creativity are the foundation for successful professionals at Secretariat.

    • Manage the analytical workflow for environmental samples, from analytical planning through laboratory testing, data validation, and assessment of data usability.
    • Coordinate sample logistics, including collection and preservation requirements, chain of custody, shipping, holding times, sample tracking, and analytical deliverables.
    • Serve as the primary technical liaison with laboratories to coordinate testing, troubleshoot analytical issues, and implement follow-up actions.
    • Perform data validation through detailed evaluation of raw instrument data, chromatograms, calibration and quantitation records, and QA/QC results.
    • Develop QA/QC and data validation procedures and communicate findings, data limitations, and recommendations.
    • Providing project management and project budget oversight

    QUALIFICATIONS

    • Requisite professional degrees and ~ 5+ years of work experience:
      • M.S. or Ph.D. in Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, or a related program
      • Professional experience in analytical chemistry, laboratory operations, QA/QC, or data validation required.
    • Expertise in GC-MS and/or LC-MS/MS with a strong understanding of matrix effects, reporting limits, and data qualification.
    • Skilled with review and validation of organic chemistries, including emergent and legacy environmental contaminants. Prefer experience with inorganics as well.
    • Practical experience managing sample logistics, laboratory coordination, and analytical deliverables; experience working in or directly overseeing testing by commercial environmental analytical laboratories strongly preferred.
    • Familiarity with EPA analytical methods, ASTM standards, and ISO/IEC 17025 preferred.
    • Excellent expert report writing skills to complement analytics
    • Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
    • Excellent listening, verbal, written, technical, and presentation skills

    A rewarding career above all

    There are a lot of fine consulting firms out there. But when everything is on the line, it takes a unique combination of skill and savvy to succeed under pressure.

    Our culture and people are driven by passion, pride, and performance. Passion for the clients we serve, the work we deliver, and the communities we live in. Pride in our cohesive team recognized for excellence and trusted to perform in the most challenging situations. And our track record of outstanding performance across all of our disciplines speaks for itself.

    Our people are motivated to be the best in everything they do – from our approach to making the complex simple to the way we mentor our up-and-coming talent to become trusted experts early in their careers.

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    Secretariat

    Secretariat is a global independent investment bank providing strategic advisory services.

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