Do you want to join our highly dedicated team that works together to provide our clients with the highest possible level of service in the industry? ICC NTA LLC is a leading third-party building product evaluation organization and has a new opportunity for you!
We are seeking a Senior Project Engineer. This is a remote position. Candidate must be a detail-oriented engineer with strong technical aptitude, computer skills, and excellent communication skills.
Responsibilities Include:
- Work with building product manufacturers to meet technical and quality requirements pertaining to certification. Identify codes and standards applicable to a building product.
- Write or review test plans, technical support, and test report review services to testing laboratories pertaining to product certification testing.
- Determine applicable loads for building components based on design standards, building code, and acceptance criteria.
- Perform and annotate calculations and analyses in accordance with code-referenced design standards.
- Extend test results through engineering judgements, interpolation, equivalency analysis, and other application of engineering principles.
- Direct similar engineering work by engineering colleagues, including review and seal.
- Help clients develop quality control systems that ensure ongoing performance and compliance of their products.
- Promote clear communication among colleagues and with others throughout the Building Product Industry.
- Work closely with ICC-ES staff engineers and Inspection Services to communicate and meet requirements and needs related to certification and inspection programs.
- Seek out opportunities to share expertise with colleagues and help them to excel.
- Respond to clients’ technical and procedural inquiries on testing, analysis, and certification of building products.
- Ensure that responses to internal and external customers are completed in a thorough and timely fashion.
- Oversee, organize, prioritize, and schedule all own work activities and assignments, seeking help as needed.
- Other duties as assigned by manager.
ICC NTA offers a competitive starting salary and comprehensive benefits package that includes health, dental, vision insurance, company paid basic life insurance, short and long-term disability coverage, paid vacation, sick leave, and a 401k plan with generous company match.
Preferred Education: Licensed engineer or registered architect in any US jurisdiction, or Bachelor of Science Degree (minimum) in fire protection/science.
Preferred Experience:
- Four years of experience in building products
- Applying laboratory methods and devising test programs for building products with and without well-defined evaluation methods
- Analytical design for strength and serviceability of building products and systems
Preferred familiarity with:
- International Building Code/International Residential Code
- Code-referenced design standards, including AISI, ASCE, and AWC
- ICC-ES Acceptance Criteria
- ASTM Testing Standards, and other independent organizations with product testing standards.
- NFPA and UL Standards
- State of Florida Product Approval, Quality Assurance Programs
- Miami Dade, Notice of Acceptance, Quality Assurance Programs
- CFR Part 3280, Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards (HUD Code)
- Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS)