Senior Project Engineer - Transportation Lighting, Cortland, NY

Senior Project Engineer - Transportation Lighting

Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety solutions to many of the top recognized brands and companies is actively seeking a Senior Project Engineer - Transportation Lighting to join our Electrical team in Cortland, NY.  This is a fantastic opportunity to grow a versatile career in 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 Project Engineer position is responsible for independently conducting on and off-site evaluation of products to determine compliance with applicable standard(s). This position is also responsible for providing local expertise in one or more product categories, mentoring and training less senior technical personnel, and assisting with scoping and scheduling project work for the assigned team.

Salary & Benefits Information

The base wage or salary range for this position is $75K - $105K. 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 holidays. When working with Intertek, you can expect a benefit package competitively placed within the local market, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k) with company match, generous vacation / sick time (PTO), tuition reimbursement and more. 

What you’ll do:

• Train and mentor less senior technical staff.
• Provide local technical expertise and maintain reviewer status in one or more product categories.
• Proactively develop and communicate test procedures, new test fixtures and report shells for local office.
• Investigate technical complaints for the local office and support accreditations efforts by performing technical audits locally.
• Demonstrate enough product and/or standards knowledge to be considered an expert in multiple product categories for the local office.
• Provide quotations for a large array of standards and complex projects and products.
• Actively represent Intertek by participating on standards/industry committees and/or associations.
• Perform preliminary design reviews (PDR) both on and off site.
• Follow sample handling procedures, ensuring that sample is logged in and out of the system.  Move equipment as needed through the facility. Properly package sample for shipment.
• Provide complex sales support such as giving presentations during client visits.
• Communicate project status and test results to client, sales personnel, and management throughout testing. Provide on-going support to clients as needed.
• Within policy guidelines, identify, properly document, and recommend engineering judgments.

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 
• 4+ years of directly relatable experience
• Demonstrated experience with U.S., Canadian, and other international product safety standards, i.e., ANSI, CSA, UL, EN, IEC, IES, FAA, ICAO, ITE, MIL-STD, SAE, FMVSS etc.
• Ability to make technical decisions and engineering judgments independently within established parameters
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form
• Ability to work in fast-paced, multi-tasking environment with shiftin