Senior Staff Engineer – Batteries & Core Safety, Cortland, NY

Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety solutions to many of the top recognized brands and companies is actively seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to join our Electrical Safety Team in Cortland, NY. Want to build something great with an incredible group of people? This is a fantastic opportunity to grow a versatile career, facilitating international trade and regulatory product testing. 

We go beyond Testing, Inspection and Certification of products: we are a Total Quality Assurance Provider to industries worldwide. Intertek is continually innovating and evolving to reduce risk for consumers, brands, and organizations in every sector around the world. Our purpose: Bringing quality, safety, and sustainability to life.

Intertek's Electrical team provides assurance, testing, inspection, and certification for a variety of electric products, including appliances, consumer electronics, lighting, medical devices, information communications technology, HVACR, industrial, and energy transmission and distribution. Our dedicated professionals help ensure the quality, safety, and sustainability of electrical products used by people throughout the world.

What are we looking for?

The Senior Staff Engineer position is responsible for providing technical expertise to personnel and operations at the local or regional level; for recommending and managing capital expenditure projects; and for assessing and developing local training.  This position is the primary resource for review and approval of test procedures, methods and interpretations.

This position is on-site support at the Cortland Laboratories at the following locations:

Main lab on Route 11 (primary),  Battery Lab on South Franklin Street Safety lab on Clinton Avenue

The Senior Staff Engineer is expected to be on-site on an as needed basis and estimated 3 days weekly on average depending on current projects, stakeholder site visits, key testing developments, training, etc. Ther is an option to work from home outside of the time needed on-site. Remote time does not accumulate when not used.

Salary & Benefits Information

The base wage or salary range for this position is $100K - $130K. Individual compensation packages are based on a variety of factors unique to each candidate including skill set, experience, qualifications, and other job-related reasons. In addition to competitive compensation packages, Intertek employees are eligible for a variety of benefits including paid time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, medical plan options, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, a 401(k) plan with company matching, tuition reimbursement, and more.

What you’ll do:

Listed examples are illustrative and representative of the tasks required of this position and are not intended to be complete or exclusive.

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. Provide quotes for a large array of standards and complex projects and products. Research new standards, technologies, and trends in standards. Represent Intertek on technical committees, code panels and/or associations. Support accreditations activities such as audit follow-up and corrective actions. Investigate technical complaints.  Provide complex sales support such as giving presentations during client visits. Provide on-going support to clients as needed. Recommend and prepare capital expenditure requests and manage capital projects. Mentor less senior technical staff. Perform other work as required.

This position outline is a general guideline and does not represent all encompassing details. The position assumes that the incumbent has both the mental and physical requirements to carry out the above defined duties.  

Minimum Requirements & Qualifications:

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 make technical decisions and engineering judgments independently where limited standardization exists. Ability to work in fast-paced, multi-tasking environment with shifting priorities and demanding deadlines. Must be detailed-oriented and able to effectively prioritize and organize workload, with efficient time management. Excellent communication skills, in verbal, written and presentation formats. Ability to travel 25%. Valid driver's license and reliable driving record.

Preferred Requirements & Qualifications:

Master’s degree in engineering 8+ years of experience in a directly related field/industry. Prior project management experience in a work environment., Experience with appliance, industrial, energy and or battery standards (e.g. UL 1973, UL 9540 & 9540A, UL 62368, CB, CE, ETL, etc.) Experience with North American Safety Certification, CB Scheme and other scheme requirements Professional Engineer (PE) license Quality system and laboratory management system assessor experience

Intertek Total Quality Assured

Intertek is a world leader in the Quality Assurance market, with a proven, high-quality business model and a global network of customer-focused operations and highly engaged subject matter experts. With passion, pace, and precision we work to exceed our customers’ expectations, while engaging with our employees to be 10X in their performance and professional growth.

Intertek is a drug-free workplace. As a condition of employment, certain positions may be required to pass a pre-employment drug test based on the type of work that will be performed.

We Value Diversity

Intertek’s network of phenomenal people are our greatest assets, and the diversity they bring fuels our success. Intertek is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that values inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

For individuals with disabilities who would like to request accommodation, or who need assistance applying, please email hr.eeo@intertek.com or call 1-877-694-8543 (option #5) to speak with a member of the HR Department.

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*Intertek does not accept unsolicited approaches from agencies and will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.