Job Description
Principal Design Engineer
Job Requirements
A Principal Design Engineer plays a crucial role in the Aerospace and Defense industry, designing mechanical systems, processes, methodologies as well as component designs to enhance overall performance. This includes designing to meet costs, timing, and quality requirements. At Quest Global, we are seeking a highly experienced engineer to join our team.
As a Principal Design Engineer, you will lead a design team from the concept phase to the practical completion of a project. You will manage the team to produce high-quality solutions for projects and apply engineering knowledge and principles to devise innovative solutions to unique design problems. This involves managing design processes, coordinating with team members, partners, and clients, ensuring regulatory compliance, implementing technical standards, and providing expert advice on mechanical systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership and line management to the team, coordinating and overseeing their workloads, providing support to ensure that the team delivers, monitoring any issues, and ensuring timescales, KPIs, and deadlines are met to meet customer requirements.
- Develop the team by focusing on individual performance and support requirements to achieve high standards.
- Work on multiple major projects of the highest complexity requiring forefront-of-field, innovative solutions.
- Act independently at the organizational level, being self-supervising, within guidance and expectations of customers.
- Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice engineering vision, strategy, policies, processes, and procedures to aid and improve operational performance.
- Capture and specify design requirements.
- Lead on complex major projects requiring forefront-of-the-field, innovative, original solutions, providing technical expertise to the team.
- Participate in internal and external design reviews and be responsible for design acceptance by the client.
- Make independent decisions on issues, providing expert technical support within Mechanical Engineering.
- Lead projects in a multi-discipline environment, coordinating all Mechanical engineering and design with other disciplines, including Process, transmission systems, Gears, Gearbox, and Marine engineering.
Required Skills (Technical Competency):
- Design proficiency in transformation systems, Gears, Gearbox, and Marine engineering.
- Experience in the production of mechanical specifications, scopes of work, calculations, drawings, and schedules.
- Analyze and manage multiple design-related issues to identify root causes.
- Modify designs based on analysis to re-test and analyze until design meets specification requirements.
- Make design changes on existing products and track them.
- Write reports and present progress at project meetings and to clients.
- Familiarity with main design packages including Solid Edge, Siemens NX, AutoCAD, etc.
- Result-oriented; satisfaction comes from engineering and design acceptance by the client.
- Able to chair design review meetings.
- Enjoy teaching and coaching Mechanical engineers and designers.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Engineering or a related field.
- Previous experience in a similar role within the Aerospace and Defense industry.
- Experience in the heavy engineering industry, power transmission systems, gears, and gearbox.
- Strong knowledge of quality management systems and industry standards (e.g., AS9100, ISO 9001).
- Proficient in root cause analysis and failure mode analysis techniques.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Detail-oriented with a strong focus on team, quality, and continuous improvement.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
About Quest:
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.
Due to security requirements, these posts are open to SOLE UK ONLY.
If you are a dedicated and proactive professional with a passion for ensuring quality and driving continuous improvement, we would love to hear from you. Join our team at Quest Global as a Mechanical Design Engineer and contribute to the success of our Aerospace and Defense projects.
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