Principal Consultant - CFD & Thermofluids

Quest GlobalDerby, Bristol, EnglandOn-siteFull-timeJunior, 1–2 yearsListed 1 week ago

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Job Requirements

Job Requirements

Quest Global is an organisation at the forefront of innovation and one of the world’s fastest growing engineering services firms with deep domain knowledge and recognised 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 recognise 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.

As a Principal Consultant - CFD & Thermofluids, your core responsibilities will include;

- Leading technical delivery of projects. This will include appropriate methods specification, model development or delegation to the team of engineers, and execution of engineering simulations as well as verification and analysis of results
- Supporting and enabling the technical delivery by more junior staff
- Displaying subject expertise and technical leadership, and also developing new skills and capabilities on the job or through in-house innovation initiatives
- Owning Project Management responsibility of larger, complex projects, directing project teams to deliver projects to budget, timelines and quality requirements
- Be a professional, competent and honest ambassador for the business in all dealings with customers, setting an example for junior staff
- Lead delivery of new proposals in familiar areas and identify business generation activities, with support/guidance from more senior staff

Skills/Qualifications

We are looking to recruit engineers with the experience of carrying out system and component level thermo-fluids and heat transfer analyses. We are looking for people who:

- Can lead technical delivery of projects, within team-based project delivery execution
- Act as subject matter experts in thermo-fluids and CFD, providing capability leadership
- Have a Bachelor’s degree (grade 2.1 or above), Masters or PhD or in a relevant engineering, science or applied mathematics discipline. Preferably with a strong CFD or thermo-fluids component
- Ideally experienced in delivering engineering analysis in a consultancy framework
- Interest in supporting the development of junior team members
- Strong technical knowledge and experience in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics and heat transfer, with the ability to apply this knowledge to a range of industry sectors;
- Ideally have experience with themo-fluids analysis tools such as Siemens STAR-CCM+, Ansys Fluent, OpenFOAM or other similar tools
- Are proficient in the use of programming language such as Python, VBA or C++
- Ideally Chartered (or equivalent) or actively working towards chartership status
- Like a challenge, are flexible thinkers and aren’t intimidated by unfamiliar problems

The position can be based at our Derby or Bristol locations