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QuEST Global Team Lead - Structural Analysis (FEA) in Windsor, Connecticut

57675BR

Title:

Team Lead - Structural Analysis (FEA)

Job Description:

Quest Global is an organization at the forefront of innovation and one of the world’s fastest growing engineering services firms with deep domain knowledge and recognized expertise in the top OEMs across seven industries. We are a twenty-five-year-old company on a journey to becoming a centenary one, driven by aspiration, hunger and humility.

We are looking for humble geniuses, who believe that engineering has the potential to make the impossible, possible; innovators, who are not only inspired by technology and innovation, but also perpetually driven to design, develop, and test as a trusted partner for Fortune 500 customers.

As a team of remarkably diverse engineers, we recognize that what we are really engineering is a brighter future for us all. If you want to contribute to meaningful work and be part of an organization that truly believes when you win, we all win, and when you fail, we all learn, then we’re eager to hear from you.

The achievers and courageous challenge-crushers we seek, have the following characteristics and skills:

Job Functions

  • The role will require you to leverage your engineering and leadership backgrounds to develop Quest Global’s structural analysts. Among the detailed responsibilities will be the following:

  • Build and maintain a motivated team that is prepared to execute on a series of diverse and technically challenging assignments

  • Promote consistent organizational culture of teamwork, accountability, change championship, and customer focus

  • Drive compliance to Quest Global's standards and processes

  • Communicate the purpose of the organization to new and seasoned engineers, identify talent, and inspire leadership in high potential team members

  • Create forecasts for workload, headcount, recruiting needs, financial predictions, software and hardware requirements, and infrastructure requirements

  • Track and report metrics for the team; including customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, productivity improvement, and financial metrics

  • Determine headcount requirements for the team; interview, hire, and induct/on-board new employees

  • Make resource assignments balancing the customer needs, team member experience, and opportunities for learning and growth

  • Work with Technical Leaders to define capability development requirements (including IDP) for the team and implement and track improvement initiatives

  • Mentor a team of mixed capability Quest Global's engineers in the structures process by proactively engaging team members and developing processes, tools and best practices

  • Promote team growth by focusing team on high quality execution and effective project management Work with Strategic Account Management and Program Leader on strategies and proposals for expanding work scope

  • General Responsibilities

  • Learn, understand, and apply our customer’s standard design and repair procedures

  • Support quotation efforts with accurate estimates of design time required to complete tasks

  • Make design change recommendations, document the work, and present the findings to our clients

  • Assist in identifying opportunities for improvement and take ownership for implementation

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have a technical BS degree (or equivalent experience) and 5+ years of aerospace experience in the structural analysis discipline with demonstrated leadership ability. Experience within the Gas Turbine Engine industry is preferred.

The following criteria will be additionally used to identify and assess top candidates:

  • Understanding of engineering principles which can include: Design, Structures, Performance Analysis, Operability

  • Experience leading engineering teams

  • Experience completing structural analysis/design tasks in the aerospace industry is strongly preferred

  • Familiarity with gas turbine fundamentals

  • Experience with Quest Global’s Project Management process including Project Planning, Monitoring & Control, Communication, and Record Keeping

  • Experience with Quest Global’s Technical Review process

  • Manage the projects, create quotations, estimate schedule and budget for tasks, assign project tasks to team members, track metrics

  • Project management, personnel management, alignment of team members’ efforts, set and evaluates annual goals, performance feedback, hire and onboard, and strategic business decision-making

  • Proven Ability to manage the customers’ perceptions and showcase Quest Global’s achievements

  • Proficiency with MS-Office Suite Tools, MS Project and PowerPoint Documents

  • Ability to motivate others and clearly establish expectations

  • Personal Traits & Attributes: Responsible, Thorough, Organized, Service Oriented, Ability to Prioritize

  • U.S. Citizen

Auto req ID:

57675BR

Job Type:

Full Time-Regular

Assignment Country:

United States

Total Years of Exp:

5 - 8

Assignment State:

CONNECTICUT

Assignment Location:

Windsor

Experience Level:

Mid Level

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