Senior Staff Engineer - Energy Storage, Battery Management Systems & Inverters, Cortland, NY

Senior Staff Engineer – Energy Storage, Battery Management Systems & Inverters, 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 Energy 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. 

Intertek's Electrical business line applies more than 100 years of product testing expertise to quickly and efficiently help clients meet safety, performance, environmental and quality requirements for every market. Spanning a wide range of industries such as Medical, Lighting, Renewable Energy, HVACR, Appliances & Electronics, Hazardous Locations, Industrial Equipment, Life Safety & Security, IT & Telecom Equipment, Intertek's global network of laboratories employ world-class experts in their fields who deliver quality, accurate testing and certification that continually exceeds our clients' expectations and helps to clear a path for their product's success. 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. 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.

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.

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 wor