Project Manager

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:

Role:
The Project Manager will be accountable for the success of their projects and will integrate efforts between all functions (engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality and others as required) to manage risk ensuring the teams delight the customer and stakeholders by meeting cost, schedule and requirement targets.

This role is based at Wolverhampton


Responsibilities:

• Leadership of multiple projects
• Manage daily workload and gated process
• Accountable for the delivery of all project milestones
• Effective management and mitigation of project risk throughout product life cycle
• Generate a strong focus on customer relationships whilst motivating team members on delivering internal objectives
• Creation and maintenance of robust, adequately detailed and resourced project plans to enable progress, track cost and accurately forecast resource requirements
• Provide regular and effective project performance updates to management including key project metrics such as Earned Value Management System (EVMS).
• Manage projects in line with Local Management System, including leading effective gate reviews to senior management
• Pro-actively manage changes in project scope, identify potential risks and define mitigation actions
• Lead or support creation of new bids and proposals with responsibility for planning and commercial aspects
• Lead various types of project such as NPI, R&D and lean manufacturing for example.
• Participate and lead continuous improvement activities to drive efficiency and eliminate waste within processes and the organization
• Promote a culture of high performance, innovation and continuous improvement
• Contribute to improving the programmes team through process and tool development

• Education – Educated to degree level in a relevant engineering discipline, a recognised project management qualification is highly desirable
• Experience – Demonstrated experience in leading and delivering complex engineering projects, preferably in the Aerospace industry
• Demonstrated expertise in managing issues and scope changes while bringing projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements
• Experience in project financial and resource planning and management, ensuring a complete and accurate view is available on request
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to convey effective direction using strong written and verbal skills.
• Excellent skills in communication and reporting to customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders at all levels

Desired Skills:

• Good communication in English (oral & written) & Interpersonal skills
• Customer focus - ability to build and develop customer & supplier relationships
• Organisational agility
• Problem solving ability
• Logical thinking
• Effective time management
• Results driven outlook

DISCLAIMER: Due to the nature of work candidates should be UK citizen/ EU Citizen/ Valid work permit holder. For further information contact us on: