Director, Forensic Engineering

The Vertex Companies, LLC is a global professional services firm specializing in forensic consulting and expert witness services. They are seeking a Director of Forensic Engineering to lead the forensic practice area, ensuring client satisfaction and supporting business development while managing a team of consultants.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting assigned Managing Director (MD) in meeting or exceeding the defined annual budget for the entire practice area/practice division (including revenue generation, overall utilization of assigned resources, and execution of profitable engagement work streams that may be either qualitative or quantitative in nature.)
• Responsible for supporting development of new accounts and retaining and expanding existing engagements within the practice area to achieve sales goals
• Effectively delegate assignments to assigned direct reports, instruct and monitor progress, and ensure work product is consistently high quality
• Supports MD in monitoring relevant data such as utilization, Accounts Receivable, discretionary spending, etc
• Develop and foster relationships with decision makers within existing key/strategic accounts and cross-sell other service areas
• Meet or exceed defined individual average utilization goals (and incorporating consideration of individual revenue targets) as set forth by company leadership
• Responsible for learning business development methodology and for being active in efforts to individually generate incremental revenue
• Identify potential new market segments and alert MD for evaluations and consideration
• Travel as necessary to support client, employee, and leadership needs
• Establish quality control of service delivery, maintaining an excellent reputation of quality and lead and manage in a manner that assists with rapid resolution of any client, team member or operational challenges
• Lead and manage in support of strategic plans that align with the organization’s vision and defined business objectives
• Responsible for leading and managing in alignment with the development of the overall practice in achieving profit objectives
• Support construction of strong cross-functional teams to achieve success in shared goals, understanding that multiple perspectives and talents build stronger teams and results
• Manage assigned projects consistent with contracts and proactively alert assigned MD to any potential challenges or issues
• Ensure compliance of operations with all local, state and Federal (and International, if applicable) regulations, as well as compliance with company policy
• Ensure consistent high quality on deliverables for the practice

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and 12 years of related experience or a Master's degree and 8 years of related experience, and at least 5 years in management capacity
• Professional Engineer (PE) licensed is required, with multiple states preferred
• Previous deposition and testimony experience is required
• Proven track record of customer relationship management and staff management and development
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Experience in providing reliable work product review for technical deliverables
• Able to communicate effectively (written and verbal) with co-workers, clients, subcontractors, and vendors
• Able to provide oversight and direction to assigned staff
• Strong leadership, communication and organizational skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Able to perform complex tasks and handle multiple priorities and the ability to perform exceptionally under high stress conditions
• Knowledge of computer operations and standard software packages (word processing, spreadsheets, Adobe) required