Project Leader - Engineering

36572BR

Title:

Project Leader - Engineering

Job Description:

Are you an open minded, detail-oriented leader who is able to adapt quickly in a dynamic business environment? Have you been waiting for a chance to apply your enthusiasm and experience managing projects to working with customers from major industry leading companies? If you are ready to grow your opportunities and career in project management, come work with us!

Who is Quest?

Our goal is to become the most recognized and trusted global engineering partner for our customersFortune 500 companies in the Aerospace, Medical Devices, Oil & Gas, Power, and Transportation industries. We know we can find solutions to their most important technical and business challenges they encounter. We arent consultants. We help them make their products the most competitive in the world and thats how weve grown to over 11,000 problem solvers from 50 centers around the world. We aspire to be a 100-year company, which doesnt mean staid and boring, but rather, we evolve and adapt to create the frontier of the engineering services industry.

The Team

We are a growing team working with some of the biggest Aerospace companies in the world. Our projects range in size, scope and application from proof of concepts, to execution of major equipment changes, to sustainable life-cycle maintenance. You and your team-mates will oversee, manage and lead projects with some of the most cutting-edge technologies in the industry.

The Role

The Project Managers role, serves as a key position within the organization and project team to ensure success in regards to our customers projects; serving as a hub for communications and information to both Quest, and its customer base. In short, as a Project Manager, your job will be to coordinate people and processes to ensure that our projects are delivered on time and produce the desired results. You will be the go-to person for everything involving a projects organization and timeline. The role requires high levels of skill and experience in the realm of project management and customer service backgrounds. The Project Manager is responsible for ensuring the success of multiple engineering projects, across a diverse customer base in the Aerospace industry. There are often technical and administrative hurdles and delays that could arise with such projects, and the Project Manager is expected to make quick decisions overcome those barriers to keep all projects on track, and at high customer satisfaction. It is in this manner that the Project Manager will manage project cost, and schedule of customer tasks and deliverables. You will have regular and frequent communication with the execution team both internally and customer facing. You will be expected to manage the customer communication and represent Quest in the best way to ensure a continued positive relationship. At times, you will use your experience to assist in building cohesive project teams to ensure a great teamwork environment, continuous skill building, and outstanding deliverable quality.

Our Culture

We just crossed the 25-year mark, and despite remarkable growth, we have maintained a culture of empowerment at all levelswhat we call intrapreneurial. You will be part of the decision making to drive continuous improvements so we can stay happy and healthy as a business in a challenging industry. Not everyone is a great fit. We will throw you into the deep end, with plenty of support to help you swim. Were not a place where laziness, ego, or rigid thinking fit in, and thats intentional. You can do more at this company than you can in twice the time anywhere else. We accelerate success; you control the throttle and hold the yoke.

Job Functions

• Successful administration of Project Delivery framework, as updated from time to time

• Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs

• Oversee, enable, and report Critical Project health status on a weekly basis

• Timely reporting/mitigation of critical project issues

• Estimation of, and resourcing planning for, new projects that are open for bid

• Develop project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility ({apply below} that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget

• Maintain CSAT at or above company set goals

• Support and Facilitate External Audit & Certification needs & requirements

• Ensure Functional Maturity Audit requirements are met

• Active role in Integration of Acquired Organizations, if required

• Support Campaigns/Large bid activities

• Collaborate and innovate with a team of mixed capability Quest engineers by proactively engaging team members and developing processes, tools and best practices.

• 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.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of professional experience and either a Business Administration BS degree or higher, or equivalent experience with direct involvement in a team-based execution model. This is a senior engineering position within the project management/project engineering discipline.

• Extensive prior experience in project management including planning, finances, tracking, and reporting

• CAPM, PMP, or Agile certifications a plus

• Knowledge of, and experience with, project management software

• High levels of experience with time, resource, stakeholder, and risk management

• Impeccable written and oral communication skills

• Demonstration of leadership and interpersonal skills

• Ability to manage the customers perceptions and showcase Quests achievements

• Ability to identify and define unclear work scope and provide recommendations for scope direction

• 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 9 AM to 4 PM

• Ability to use personal transportation to visit customer locations.

Location: Windsor, CT

Travel: Up to 25% (if needed)

Compensation type: Salary

Reports to: Program Manager

Contact: {apply below}

Auto req ID:

36572BR

Job Type:

Full Time-Regular

Assignment Country:

United States

Total Years of Exp:

5 - 8

Education Type:

Bachelors-Science (B.Sc)

Assignment State:

CONNECTICUT

Assignment Location:

Windsor

Experience Level:

Mid Level