YA Engineering Services (YAES) provides structural, mechanical, electrical, and geotechnical engineering services; architectural and building envelope investigative services; non-destructive testing services; seismic risk assessment services; materials analysis services; expert witness and litigation support services; and accident reconstruction services. Our goal with YA is to offer a team of highly qualified, technically excellent engineering and architectural professionals who work seamlessly together to service the needs of our clients in the model of an engineering cooperative.
Summary:The Senior Managing Biomechanist leads a team of expert engineering staff in human-injury analysis in vehicular accidents, premises liability and slip-and-fall incidents. Analyses of injury biomechanics may require reconstructing vehicular accidents, slip-and-fall incidents or determination of factors responsible for development of the incident. This position requires extensive experience in forensic biomechanical analyses. This role performs investigations focusing on musculoskeletal biomechanics to determine the relationship between accident modes and injuries, requires evaluation and analysis of biomechanical systems including voluntary and involuntary human motions, assessment of situations leading to the accident, and reconstructing the accidents. The role ideally includes familiarity with legal depositions, working with attorneys and claims adjusters. Additionally, the ideal candidate has an established network of external clientele and is experienced with building, establishing and maintaining rapport with this network.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Leads a team of experts in conducting detailed inspections of vehicles and accident sites and accurately analyzes crash sequences to identify contributing factors and the induced loading on the occupants.
- Uses computer models to reconstruct accidents and to measure load and injury levels.
- Supports business development efforts by building and maintaining rapport with current clients and generating new work for themselves and a team of experts supporting them. Partners with business development representatives, attends conferences and events to promote the company and skills of expert staff.
- Communicates with clients and team regarding scope of work, investigation tasks, budget, and ensures all project completion timelines, deadlines and deliverables are met.
- Ensures workload is evenly distributed amongst experts.
- Mentors, leads and guides a team of experts in all aspects of project work.
- Provides expert testimony at trials, depositions, or other legal proceedings and communicates investigative findings in a manner easily understood by technical or non-technical audiences.
- Inspects and measures vehicles.
- Reviews various documents to identify relevant information for an accident reconstruction or biomechanical engineering analysis (includes police reports, medical records, depositions, expert reports, legal pleadings and discovery documents, videos, photographs, etc.)
- Performs simulations of vehicular collisions using advanced collision reconstruction software such as PC-Crash, Virtual Crash or HVE (or similar).
- Evaluates the effects of impact forces on occupants as a result of vehicular accidents.
- Determines human injury mechanisms in vehicular accidents and premises liability cases such as slip-and-fall accidents.
- Performs accident reconstructions of single-vehicle rollovers, single-vehicle impacts with fixed objects, and multi-vehicle collisions (frontal, side, rear, and sideswipe).
- Utilizes engineering principles to calculate factors such as impact and departure speeds, collision forces, and trajectories of vehicles.
- Compares calculations with crash test reports of similar collisions to correlate damages based on calculated velocities.
- Reviews papers and journals related to vehicular accident reconstruction to understand and advance the scientific techniques used in reconstruction work.
- Provides written conclusions of findings to assist others in understanding the evidence or in determining the facts at issue.
- Minimum of 10 – 15 years of experience in biomechanics, accident reconstruction, and premises liability work or similar required.
- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical or Biomedical Engineering required.
- Master of Science or PhD in Mechanical or Biomedical Engineering preferred.
- Must have experience with establishing clientele and rapport with insurance carriers, lawyers, and adjusters.
- Must have testifying experience as an expert witness.
- Expert with CAD related to accident reconstruction is preferred.
- Must hold a valid PE license, PhD, SAE certification or ACTAR certification.
- Minimum of 8 years experience working with and establishing a network of clientele (insurance carriers, attorneys, and/or adjusters.)
- Enjoys working in a team environment
- Passion for learning
United States
