Job Description

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead high capability engineering teams for product management, development, and systems integration tasks. •    Ensure that all technical and schedule requirements will be met and lead decision team decision making to follow critical path. •    Develop master schedules supporting all hardware design, development, and testing activities. •    Analyze budget and earned value based on the milestone schedule, identify and mitigate risks to the success of the project, and make decisions to improve lead times and reduce cost. •    Create development/production hardware plans and test instrumentation plans to meet the Engine Validation Plan (EVP).  •    Identify and lead investigations into hardware failures, identify solutions, implement design changes and analyze improvements. •    Lead part level product reviews and provide input to product reviews •    Collaborate and innovate with a team of mixed capability QuEST engineers by proactively engaging team members and developing processes, tools and best practices. •    Lead the development, integration and documentation of technical requirements for component design, which may include management of suppliers •    Work with Supply Chain Management to validate supplier capabilities to ensure design and engineering intent and integrity is maintained. •    Communicate both orally and in writing to internal and external customers; strong verbal, written and presentation skills are necessary. •    Interact with a number of different customers on many different levels and locations.

REQUIRED SKILLS (TECHNICAL COMPETENCY):

•    Technical experience with the gas turbine engine and propulsion systems or sufficient experience in mechanical engineering •    Extent of prior project management experience including planning, finances, tracking, and reporting •    Understanding of material and manufacturing processes in metal and composite hardware •    Level of interaction with suppliers / vendors •    Ability to manage the customers’ perceptions and showcase QuEST’s achievements •    Ability to identify and define unclear work scope and provide recommendations for scope direction •    Extent of experience with technical writing & conducting formal presentations •    Proficiency with MS-Office Suite and creation of PowerPoint documents •    US Citizenship required

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS & WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Mostly Office Environments, Occasional Shop Floor involvement.
• Substantial amounts of telephone and computer work.
• Heavily Regulated Industries with strict adherence to procedures.
• Flexibility to meet business deadlines by staying late or arriving early.
• Typical 8 hour days plus lunch / 40 hour weeks / core (required) hours are 9AM to 4PM
• Ability to use personal transportation to visit customer locations.
• Due to the nature of the work, all candidates must be a U.S. Citizen

Company Description

We are Quest Global. We’re in the business of engineering, but what we’re really building is a brighter future. It’s not just what we do, but why we do it that makes us different. We believe engineering has the unique opportunity to solve the problems of today that stand in the way of tomorrow. For 25 years, we have strived to be the most trusted partner for the world’s hardest engineering problems. As a global organization headquartered in Singapore, we live and work in 17 countries, with 56 global delivery centers, driven by 13,000+ extraordinary employees who make the impossible possible every day. Quest Global brings deep industry knowledge and digital expertise to deliver E2E global product engineering services. We bring together technologies and industries alongside the contributions of diverse individuals and their areas of expertise to solve problems better, faster. This multi-dimensional approach enables us to solve the most important and large-scale challenges across the Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Energy, Hi-Tech, Healthcare, Medical Devices, Rail and Semiconductor industries.