Finite Element Analysis Team Leader - QuEST Global Engineering Services
Indianapolis, IN
About the Job
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 Overview:
The Team Leader or Project Leader is responsible for supervision of individual contributors, project management, and smooth operations of the team/project.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage employee workload and trainings
• Conduct daily touch points with each employee in your team and conduct regular team meetings to flow down company and immediate organizational communications
• Manage Time & Material and Tasked based projects of low complexity for work packages from our customers. Project management will include on-time delivery, proposal preparations, risk assessments, timesheet approvals, and financial management
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis and encourage and monitor Productivity and Continuous Improvements as required for the customer work package
• Manage Customer point of contact by assisting with scope and work package definitions, report weekly status, conduct quality and progress reviews, solicit regular Customer Satisfaction Feedback
• Work with your Center’s Technical Leadership and Subject Matter Experts to ensure projects are executed with high technical quality and technical career development is provided to your team members
• Create a team environment where your employees are encouraged to grow professionally and challenge themselves
• Support Hiring by conducting interviews as required and providing Hiring Manager with candidate feedback
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, project management, or a related technical field preferred but not required
• 5-8 years of career experience
• 0-3 years’ experience in managing a team
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience in leading project presentations
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and work independently
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
Quest Global is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. EOE/AA