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QuEST Defense · East Hartford, CT · On-site

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About QuEST Defense

QuEST Defense is a global engineering services company. Backed by Space Capital.

About the role

We’re looking for humble geniuses who believe engineering can turn the impossible into reality—and who are driven to design, build, and test solutions that matter for some of the world’s most trusted companies. If you want to do meaningful work with a diverse team that believes in shared wins, continuous learning, and engineering a brighter future, this is the place for you.

What they're looking for

  • On-site Office Environments, Occasional Shop Floor involvement
  • Great communication skills via telephone, video conferencing and MS Teams
  • Heavily Regulated Industries with strict adherence to procedures
  • Flexibility to meet business deadlines by staying late or arriving early
  • Typical 8 hour days plus lunch / 40 hour weeks. core (required) hours are 9AM to 4PM (some 9-80)
  • Ability to use personal transportation to visit customer locations
More about this role

We’re looking for humble geniuses who believe engineering can turn the impossible into reality—and who are driven to design, build, and test solutions that matter for some of the world’s most trusted companies. If you want to do meaningful work with a diverse team that believes in shared wins, continuous learning, and engineering a brighter future, this is the place for you.

Quest Defense Systems and Solutions is actively hiring Project Engineers to coordinate engineering project schedules, documentation, technical reviews, change implementation, and stakeholder activities to keep projects on track, maintain traceability, and ensure milestones, budgets, and deliverables are met.

Clearance: Existing or ability to obtain DoD Secret/Collateral clearance

  • Lead and coordinate project scheduling and milestones in tools like Jira, MS Project, or SAP
  • Create catalogs documents in a searchable file (Excel, Access, or other); update files to a clear, common nomenclature
  • Coordinate with Subject Matter Experts to fix technical shortfalls and add content where needed
  • Review documents for completeness and coordinate approval and sign offs of design and review documentation, upload into...

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