Project Engineer

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:

Roles & Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will possess a combination of technical and behavioral skills to thrive in an engineering environment.  You will perform a critical support role in assisting high performing engineering teams by performing financial analysis and reporting.  Perhaps most importantly, you will help our customers deliver high quality products on time.  How?  By being proactive in overcoming obstacles, providing answers to questions, keeping the process moving, and always looking for ways to improve.

Responsibilities include:

• Working with customer’s engineers and managers to create and update the WBS, IMS plan, and program baseline
• Perform analysis of financial data to identify trends, outliers, and variance to plans
• Create EV reports per standard calendar including weekly EVMS status, monthly LRE, quarterly EAC, and others as specified during the project kick off meeting
• Organize, lead, and support review meetings including:  scheduling and attending meetings, compiling presentation material, and tracking action items to closure, storing artifacts in network folder
• Tracking of inquiries related to financial performance, BCRs, or variances
• Creating and presenting weekly status reports of Quest project

Required Skills (Technical Competency):

• BA or BA in Finance, or AS degree with 3-5 years of relevant experience in an engineering or manufacturing company
• Have solid skills in Microsoft Office tools, especially PowerPoint and Excel and Outlook
• Advanced Excel (power pivot, complex formulas, conditional formatting)
• Have a basic understanding of project management, particularly scheduling, budgeting, and EVMS
• Strong communication skills orally and in writing.  Will be expected to create reports, create standard work and training material, write emails, and provide status updates to customers.
• Work well in a team oriented environment including heavy customer interfacing
• You have a continuous improvement mindset and are always seeking ways to do things better and faster without compromising quality.
• Like to work in a fast paced, creative environment without a lot of management oversight. You are independent and forward facing.
• Enjoy people and dynamic teams with diverse experiences. We have fun together!

Desired Skills:

• Prefer candidates familiar with:
  • Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system (Windchill, Teamcenter, etc.)
  • SharePoint or another collaboration application
  • SAP
  • Finance Background