Experienced Ergonomist

When you join the Sandalwood team, you’ll join an engaging and inclusive group with a mission to help our customers identify, assess, and reduce work-related risks to quality, productivity, and employee health.

In your day to day activities, you’ll work with multiple customers, as a consultant and trusted partner in Sandalwood’s areas of expertise of Injury Prevention, Systems Engineering & Systems Integration. You’ll help customers innovate, solve their current struggles and guide them with the power of Sandalwood’s deeply ingrained subject matter expertise.

You will have opportunities to help lead your own individual development with programs designed to guide you. Feeling you haven’t been recognized lately? You will have the chance to consistently appreciate your coworkers and be appreciated by your coworkers for continued distinction using our peer to peer appreciation and feedback software.

You will be encouraged to participate in Sandalwood’s multitude of extra-curricular activities including:

• An innovative health, safety and wellness program
• An internal innovation forum to guide and develop innovation initiatives
• The all-team meeting and staff day planning committee, dedicated to fostering team dynamics, collaboration and cross-functional interactions
• Participating in on-campus and virtual recruiting
• The social committee plans various get-togethers for the team outside of work
• Our cross-line of business marketing committee assists with marketing planning, ideas and collaboration
• The mentorship program provides a forum for mentors/mentees to connect and provide feedback, make connections and offer encouragement
• Community involvement opportunities driven by our team’s background, our companies’ core values and community need

Sandalwood’s people are it’s greatest and most treasured asset. Learn more about our focus on our people on our YouTube Channel, Sandalwood Engineering & Ergonomics.

We're currently looking for a Experienced Ergonomist to join our growing team of engineering and ergonomics professionals. Details about the role are as follows:

Successful candidates will have the following attributes

• A qualified and professional manner and appearance, outgoing personality with excellent interpersonal and organizational skills and competent customer-facing representation
• Experience in business communication, including giving formal presentations, creating reports and professional documents (e.g. meeting agendas, meeting minutes, etc.)
• Ability to establish priorities, work both independently and with a team
• Working knowledge of NIOSH single and multi-lift equations, Liberty Mutual Tables, ACGIH Hand Intensive TLV, RULA, REBA, Digital Human Modeling, Motion Capture Technologies

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conduct physical demands analyses, ergonomic risk analyses on single jobs, production lines, or entire plants
• Perform ergonomic assessments using standard ergonomic analysis tools and/or using Digital Human Modeling software and complete detailed technical reports
• Provide assembly plant ergonomic support to identify and prioritize ergonomic risks, conduct ergonomic risk assessments and provide recommendations on elimination of risk.
• Perform virtual assessment of Ergonomic risk utilizing such software systems as Teamcenter, Process Simulate, and/or Jack, and provide recommendations for improvements
• Develop ergonomic specifications and standards through literature review, research, and ergonomic analysis

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in Kinesiology, Industrial Engineering, Human Factors, Occupational Biomechanics, Ergonomics or a related discipline
• Associate Ergonomics Professional (AEP), Associate Ergonomist (AE) certification, or Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE) is an asset
• Minimum of 1-2 years of industrial ergonomics or a passion to learn and grow in the industry

Additional Information

• Must be able to work in various locations within assigned region
• Environment- Typical office and or manufacture plant floor facilities
• May be required to work outside of typical office hours to support client projects
• Ability to work independently with no or limitied supervision

Sandalwood is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and proudly participate with E-verify to ensure the eligibility of our employees.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• HSA and FSA Accounts
• Retirement Plan (401k) 50% Company Match of the First 6% of Employee Contribution
• Short Term & Long Term Disability Premiums 100% Company Paid
• Employee and Dependent Life Insurance and AD&D Premiums 100% Company Paid
• Paid Time Off (2-5 weeks)
• Company Paid Holidays
• Training & Development (Tuition Reimbursement and Certifications)
• Additional Voluntary Benefits