Team leader Jobs in Hartford, CT

Job Requirements

The Role

The team lead role is a crucial position at Quest, with direct effect on our employees, our customers, and business performance. The position involves mentoring team members, managing work load, and maintaining a high yield with our individual contributors. Team leads actively work on engineering and related support activities such as : coordinate with Team Leads within all of Engineering Organization, set group priorities and assign individual tasks, provide mentoring and growth opportunities for group, perform yearly / quarterly performance reviews, responsible for maintaining adequate staffing levels and employee skillsets. Ultimately, the Team Lead is responsible for group profitability, billability and growth. Team Leads are the face of Quest to our individual contributors and the face of Quest to our existing customers, and as such are expected to demonstrate integrity and lead by example. They are the front line for business growth and for team member development.

Job Functions

• The role will require you to leverage your engineering and leadership backgrounds to develop Design and Structural mechanical engineers. Among the detailed responsibilities will be the following :
• Build and maintain a motivated team that is prepared to execute on a series of diverse and technically challenging assignments
• Promote consistent organizational culture of teamwork, accountability, change championship, and customer focus
• Drive compliance to Quest standards and processes
• Communicate the purpose of the organization to new and seasoned engineers, identify talent, and inspire leadership in high potential team members
• Create forecasts for workload, headcount, recruiting needs, financial predictions, software and hardware requirements, and infrastructure requirements
• Track and report metrics for the team; including customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, productivity improvement, and financial metrics
• Determine headcount requirements for the team; interview, hire, and induct / on-board new employees
• Make resource assignments balancing the customer needs, team member experience, and opportunities for learning and growth
• Work with Technical Leaders to define capability development requirements (including IDP) for the team and implement and track improvement initiatives
• Mentor a team of mixed capability Quest engineers in the structures process by proactively engaging team members and developing processes, tools and best practices
• Promote team growth by focusing team on high quality execution and effective project management Work with Strategic Account Management and Program Leader on strategies and proposals for expanding work scope
• General Responsibilities

Learn, understand, and apply our customer's standard design and repair procedures

Work Experience

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have a technical BS degree (or equivalent experience) and 5+ years of aerospace experience in the design or structural analysis discipline with demonstrated leadership ability. Experience within the Gas Turbine Engine industry is preferred.

The following criteria will be additionally used to identify and assess top candidates :