NV5 is a team of talented professionals, engineers, and consultants dedicated to making a positive impact on communities. The Senior Forensic Engineer will manage forensic engineering assignments, perform assessments, and provide reports while serving as an expert in litigation cases.
Responsibilities:
- Manage structural forensic engineering assignments
- Perform forensic engineering assessments
- Provide verbal/written reports for insurance carriers, attorneys, homeowners, property manager, etc
- Serve as an expert for multiple litigation cases
- Constant travel within 150 miles of your office location
- Occasional travel for work with other NV5 office locations/staff or geographic regions
- Communication with clients before and after site visit and post report production, to review/clarify scopes and explain observations and findings
- Perform on-site interviews with a variety of individuals to collect histories, data, concerns, etc
- Photograph site conditions with an eye to explain conditions and determining cause of loss
- Review codes, standards, research and apply critical formulation of facts to develop conclusions that assist clients resolve concerns and are defensible
- Maintain good project data management/storage practices
- Supervise, when appropriate, junior engineer (EI’s) in field work, report development, and research
- Develop reports that outline site observations, applicable codes, standards, findings, and conclusions
- Testify in legal proceeding, when required, in correlation to work product
Requirements:
- B.S. Degree in Civil, Structural, or Architecture Engineering
- Experience of seven (7) or more years
- Knowledge of building codes and standards and construction practices
- Professional Engineering (PE) license in Florida, or ability to obtain one within 6 months of start date
- M.S. Degree in Civil/Structural Engineering
- Residential and/or Commercial inspection & assessment experience
- Litigation experience