HVDC Technical Manager - #2171077

Job Requirements

The Role

The HVDC Principal Engineer be the primary interface with our customer and engineering teams in the UK, France, and India. You will have responsibility to manage and coordinate the engineering activities of a growing global team while working with our customers to realize a strategic vision, resolving any challenges that arise. The Principal Engineer is the face of Quest Global to our employees and our customers, and as such are expected to demonstrate thought leadership, technical expertise, integrity and lead by example. This is a challenging role that will provide opportunities for growth and development within an emerging technology practice at Quest Global.

Job Functions

• Build relationships with existing and new customers, identify opportunities, propose solutions, and review program performance
• Understand transformational requirements from customers and develop appropriate technology/capability roadmap to meet the requirements.
• Interface with customer stakeholders to elaborate the requirements and covert those to work package specifications.
• Lead and manage end to end product development lifecycle of HVDC projects in close collaboration with customers and Quest Global team
• Define and implement technical review process and perform critical/milestone review to ensure deliverables quality
• Drive strategic outsourcing vision working with customer leadership and engineering managers
• Lead engineering teams working for HVDC engagements and responsible for successful completion delivery of work and achieving key performance targets
• Support joint governance meetings for ongoing engagements—communication rhythm, metrics, productivity, efficiency, and escalations
• Identify skills/capabilities required in near/medium term and work with Talent Acquisition team to hire required capability and capacity to fulfil workload demand
• Promote quality culture and administer systems that ensure consistent business excellence; create, monitor, and report on key performance indicators
• Make critical decisions to balance needs of stakeholders (customers, employees, and the company), and develop program strategies
• Champion employee engagement throughout team and promote a good working environment for all employees in line with Quest Global values and culture
• Collaborate with account management to write proposals for new business development
  
  

Qualifications

Work Experience

• Bachelors in Engineering at least 12 years of experience in grid engineering in power generation industry
• Knowledge of HVDC product lifecycle design/engineering
• Demonstrated global mindset and ability to collaborate effectively across cultures
• Self-motivated and ability to work independently
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate and present effectively and clearly with clients, management, peers, and team members
• Good business acumen and the ability to analyze data to gain insights and can use these to identify business improvement opportunities