GEOS ISO 17025 Strategy Leader

We are looking for a talented GEOS ISO 17025 Strategy Leader to join our team specializing in Engineering in Columbus, IN.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Influence high-impact, cross-functional decisions by synthesizing stakeholder input into clear, data-driven recommendations that guide design, feasibility, and system architecture.
• Set direction for projects by using systems expertise to define medium-term goals, align teams, and ensure consistent technical progress across analysis, testing, and execution.
• Lead and optimize engineering processes (PPP, PPT, VPI/VPC, ESW, FEP, ALD&V) to improve quality, speed, and consistency across programs and business units.
• Leverage advanced thermal and fluid science tools (e.g., GT-Suite, Fluent, Converge, CDAT) to generate insights that directly improve product performance, emissions, and reliability.
• Provide leadership in resolving complex, ambiguous system issues with potential global impact, ensuring robust, scalable solutions.
• Drive organizational effectiveness by leading cross-functional and cross-business unit process improvements that enhance engineering capability and outcomes.
• Coordinate and lead technical teams, ensuring alignment, accountability, and efficient execution while developing team capability.
• Act as a recognized technical expert and mentor, building organizational strength through coaching, knowledge sharing, and potential collaboration with industry and academic partners.

• Build deep technical expertise in fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics to confidently predict system behavior and guide high-impact engineering decisions.
• Leverage modeling, simulation, and analytical tools to generate insights that influence design, optimize performance, and reduce risk across systems.
• Proactively identify and mitigate failure modes by understanding system interactions, ensuring strong reliability and robust product performance.
• Apply structured, data-driven problem solving to resolve complex issues, eliminate root causes, and implement sustainable solutions that protect the customer.
• Translate stakeholder needs into clear, traceable system requirements and manage them throughout the lifecycle to ensure alignment and successful delivery.
• Demonstrate strong systems thinking by understanding interactions across components, controls, and environments to drive optimized, end-to-end solutions.
• Navigate ambiguity and complexity by making sound, timely decisions with incomplete information while maintaining focus on outcomes and project progress.
• Collaborate effectively, communicate clearly, and build strong networks while continuously improving processes and fostering innovation through diverse perspectives.

• College, university, or equivalent Bachelor's degree in Engineering or appropriate STEM field is required.
• Post-graduate (Master's) degree relevant to this discipline area may be required for select roles.
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

• Prior Technical Specialist/Specialist Engineering equivalent work experience in a relevant discipline area is required with a demonstrated track record of technical problem solving, quality decision making and providing technical direction and leadership to a project team(s).
• Knowledge of MS Office tools is preferred

• Individual contributor role created as part of a business strategic initiative to standardize the global lab quality foundation that supports the overall emissions strategy. The role is not intended to require deep emissions-specific program knowledge; it aligns to emissions strategy by improving lab accreditation decisions, measurement quality, operating consistency, uptime, and future capability planning.

• Lead the global ISO 17025 accreditation strategy and governance model.
• Determine which labs should pursue, maintain, or avoid ISO 17025 accreditation based on business value, customer or compliance need, cost, time, and strategic benefit.
• Build and maintain a global accreditation roadmap and lab footprint view.
• Partner with lab leaders for current and future accreditation efforts, including CTC Airflow Lab, LDTC / Light Duty Tech Center, and future lab opportunities.
• Work with A2LA and other accrediting bodies as needed to support accreditation readiness, audits, corrective actions, and maintenance.
• Lead global Measurement Uncertainty Analysis governance, including common methods, tools, budget development, review expectations, and training.
• Mentor engineers and lab teams in measurement uncertainty concepts and practical budget development.
• Support emissions strategy by strengthening the lab foundation that enables reliable data, reduced downtime, improved efficiency, and future capability readiness.
• Today, this work is managed locally by individual labs, lab leaders, quality resources, and project teams without one dedicated global owner. This role creates a single point of strategic leadership and standardization.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, technology, quality, metrology, laboratory sciences, or related technical field; advanced degree beneficial or 2-year associate degree in engineering, technology, quality, metrology, laboratory sciences, or related technical field and 5 years of relevant experience.
• Strong technical fundamentals in laboratory measurement systems, calibration, airflow/fluid systems, test systems, thermodynamics, or related measurement disciplines.
• Significant experience with ISO 17025 accreditation requirements, lab quality systems, audit readiness, corrective actions, and accreditation maintenance.
• Practical experience building, reviewing, or teaching measurement uncertainty budgets.
• Ability to develop governance frameworks, standard work, technical training, and decision criteria across multiple labs.
• Strong communication and influence skills across global, cross-functional teams.
• Ability to mentor engineers and translate complex technical concepts into practical application.
• ISO 17025 auditor experience is strongly preferred/beneficial.
• Emissions lab experience is beneficial but not required; the role supports the emissions strategy through lab quality, measurement confidence, uptime, and capability planning.