Gas Turbine Engineering Project Coordinator

Quest Global; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Quest Global is seeking a Junior Project Lead – Gas Turbine Engineering to coordinate engineering work packages from scope to delivery. You will partner with design and analysis engineers to deliver design, substantiation and repair packages within scope, schedule, cost, and quality requirements.

Reporting to a Project Manager, you will maintain project plans, track progress, and escalate issues early. This is a hands-on development role with a clear pathway toward a Project Manager position

Qualifications

• Some experience supporting engineering delivery, project coordination or technical work packages.
• Strong organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to follow through on actions across several work packages.
• Confidently work with engineers to understand progress, clarify dependencies and communicate delivery concerns.
• Understanding of basic project planning principles, including scope, milestones, dependencies, effort and risk.
• Confidence using Excel and willingness to develop skills in scheduling, reporting and project controls.
• Clear written and verbal communication, able to raise issues promptly and ask for support when needed.
• Interest in gas turbine engineering and progressing a career in project management.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate work packages through scoping, planning, design, analysis and delivery.
• Develop and maintain PBS/WBS, diagrams and Gantt charts with support from the Project Manager.
• Track task ownership, milestones, dependencies and progress with engineers.
• Maintain earned value controls and forecast effort to complete.
• Report work-package status to the Project Manager, flagging variances and risks.
• Maintain risk, issue and action registers and escalate as needed.
• Coordinate inputs, review meetings and handovers between design, analysis and repair teams.
• Record scope changes and assess impact on delivery with the PM.
• Support close-out with reviews and required documentation.

Skills

Engineering coordination

Organizational skills

Progress tracking

Excel

Communication

Scheduling basics

Education

Engineering or project management qualification in progress

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

Quest Global is seeking a Junior Project Lead – Gas Turbine Engineering to coordinate engineering work packages from scope to delivery. You will partner with design and analysis engineers to deliver design, substantiation and repair packages within scope, schedule, cost, and quality requirements.

Reporting to a Project Manager, you will maintain project plans, track progress, and escalate issues early. This is a hands-on development role with a clear pathway toward a Project Manager position