Consultant, Forensic Engineering
Role Overview
The Consultant, Forensic Engineering is a hands-on senior leadership role providing operational leadership and organizational structure for a growing engineering firm.
The role works with founders and senior technical leaders so they can focus on clients, engineering, business development, and long-term vision.
The successful candidate balances strategic planning with practical execution and ensures important issues are addressed and completed.
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About J.S. Held
J.S. Held is a global consulting firm combining technical, scientific, financial, and strategic expertise.
The firm advises clients navigating complex, contentious, and often catastrophic situations.
Role overview
The Consultant, Forensic Engineering is a hands-on senior leadership role providing operational leadership and organizational structure for a growing engineering firm.
The role works with founders and senior technical leaders so they can focus on clients, engineering, business development, and long-term vision.
The successful candidate balances strategic planning with practical execution and ensures important issues are addressed and completed.
Leadership and operations
- Serve on the senior leadership team and act as an operational partner to the founders.
- Translate vision and strategy into plans, priorities, and actions; establish accountability and management rhythms.
- Identify operational issues, provide objective management perspectives, and ensure leadership decisions are communicated and implemented.
- Oversee administrative and business operations, scalable processes, policies, systems, and controls.
- Clarify roles, decision-making authority, and accountability; reduce founder dependencies and bottlenecks.
- Monitor operational metrics and coordinate across engineering, project management, finance, HR, administration, and other functions.
- Contribute to marketing and sales objectives and resource strategies.
Finance and people leadership
- Oversee financial and accounting functions with the Controller and external accounting services.
- Maintain financial controls, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and administrative processes; support annual budgeting and operating plans.
- Help leadership understand financial performance, risks, trends, and investment needs as the firm grows.
- Oversee HR infrastructure, policies, performance management, compensation processes, and employee development.
- Coach managers and senior staff on leadership, accountability, performance, and employee relations.
- Serve as a senior escalation point for employee concerns, grievances, and workplace conflicts.
Requirements
- Seasoned business leader with experience moving between strategic planning and practical execution.
- Ability to establish accountability, management rhythms, and organizational follow-through.
- Ability to oversee business operations and coordinate across engineering, project management, finance, HR, and administration.
- Experience providing leadership or oversight for financial and accounting functions, including controls, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.
- Ability to oversee people practices, performance management, compensation processes, and employee development.
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