Acoustician​/Lab Assistant

Department: Acoustics

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Emeryville, CA

Compensation: $75,000 - $90,000 / year

RWDI is a global climate and performance engineering consulting firm that helps its clients redefine what’s possible by overcoming design and operational challenges, while minimizing environmental, user, and resource impact. With deep technical expertise across a broad range of services, we drive success on ambitious building, industry, and infrastructure projects.

We are a values-based organization, which means everything we do relates back to our three core values: innovation, integrity, and integration. So, when we look for new people to join our team, alignment to these values is a vital piece of our people puzzle. Here’s what this looks like:

• You push the boundaries of what’s possible.
• People know they can rely on you to follow through on your commitments.
• You believe that when a group of people come together, they can achieve more than any one person could alone.

If this sounds like you and you’re ready to join an award-winning organization and work alongside renowned technical and exceptionally innovative colleagues, RWDI is the place for you.

About the Position: RWDI is seeking an energetic and motivated individual to join our Environmental Noise, Acoustics & Vibration team in Emeryville, California. This team works on a wide variety of acoustical projects in the San Francisco Bay Area, around the United States, and sometimes in other parts of the world with other international RWDI colleagues. In particular, this team works on vibration isolation of rail transit systems and buildings near those systems.

This is a full-time, 40-hour per week, junior level acoustical consulting position with an emphasis on field work and instrumentation. The successful candidate will have a four-year college degree in a field of science related to acoustics and/or vibration or alternatively hold a two-year technical degree and have commensurate experience in acoustical/vibration data gathering and analysis.

The role includes but is not limited to:

• Data collection and fieldwork alongside colleagues, often at locations that require climbing ladders, navigating on-site barriers, walking to remote off-road locations, and transporting equipment that can weigh as much as 50 lbs. Measurements are occasionally made outside normal working hours, during long days, and out of town.
• Assembling, packing, shipping, and tracking equipment for out-of-town projects and between offices.
• Planning, coordinating, and executing specialty testing (with some experience).
• Noise and vibration data analyses under the supervision and direction of a senior staff member.
• Preparation of report sections in clear, concise English.
• Adhering to a defined quality assurance process.
• Active and frequent communication with project managers, others within the Acoustics and Environmental Noise & Vibration team, and occasionally clients.

Note that practitioners within this team are purely technical. This role does not involve project management. There are, however, opportunities to interact with clients and support the project management team.

We are accepting applications from candidates with the following qualifications:

• Four-year college degree in a field of science related to acoustics and/or vibration (Physics, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or other discipline with coursework related to acoustics and vibration). Alternatively, a two-year technical degree and demonstrable interest and experience in acoustics/vibration.
• General knowledge of computers. Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word.
• Strong personal organization skills.
• Self-moti…