
Technical Program Leader - HVDC
- Stafford, Staffordshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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
- 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