Job Description
Are you an experienced Systems Engineer looking for a new challenge and an opportunity to further advance your skills and career in a great working environment? Join our fast-growing team supporting leading Aerospace companies! If you are a highly motivated individual, a self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit and a genuine interest in technology, we have the perfect job for you!
The Role
The Senior Systems Engineer will be the engineering leader to support gas turbine programs including new product introduction, cost out, reliability improvements, engine delivery, test engineering, and root cause investigations of field issues. You will be responsible for establishing requirements, developing engineering plans to substantiate design changes to meet these requirements, and then leading the engineering teams through execution. This includes the engine level engineering integration and customer communications. You will also be the face of Quest to your customers. Through listening to customer challenges, and building on your previous experiences, you will find creative approaches that will solve their most difficult engineering problems.
Roles & Responsibilities: - Grasp the breadth of customer product offerings and provide guidance to the design, manufacturing, instrumentation, test, and business teams
- Execute a robust process of design, creation, and optimization of systems, consisting of identification and quantification of system requirements, creation of alternate system design concepts, performance of design trade studies, selection and implementation of the best designs and verification that the design is properly integrated and executed
- Overall lead on external Customer Communication
- Leads technical execution through development, production, and field support applying established processes. Drives design decisions, identifying technical risks and abatements
- Lead and influence teams without direct reporting
- Influences product line major decisions and long-term strategies negotiating and considering business/customer needs and technical/budget constraints
- Drives prioritization of technical needs for a given engine model, cross functional coordination
- Has deep knowledge of the engine model characteristics, design, configuration, and history
- Manages interface between components and execution organizations as well as overall configuration
- Program Management - Tracks/allocates/manages budgets and deliverable status
- Uses judgment to make decisions or solve complex tasks or problems in areas of operational/product management, manufacturing, technology or engineering
Required Skills (Technical Competency):
We're excited to talk to you if your qualifications meet the following criteria:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering
- 4-8+ years of experience in an engineering position
- 3+ years in Gas Turbine or Gas Turbine Package Design, Test engineering, and Analysis
- Systems/Module level design, integration, thinking
- Development and Test Experience
- Cross functional project leadership, influence, communication skills
- Team Leadership and Program Management
- Root Cause Problem Solving
- Clear thinker and effective problem solver
- Lifecycle product management
- Strategic program decision responsibility
- Mentoring/coaching experience
- US Citizen or Permanent Resident required
Physical Requirements & Work Environment:
- Mostly Office Environments, Occasional Shop Floor involvement.
- Independence / work without direct supervision
- Substantial amounts of telephone, video conferencing 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 9AM to 4PM
- Ability to use personal transportation to visit customer locations.
- Due to the nature of the work, all candidates must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Job Tags
Permanent employment, Full time,