My journey to becoming an extraordinary engineer at Quest Global started from my humble origins in Italy. Growing up, I was surrounded by curious people who always found creative solutions to everyday problems. With my mother being a physicist and my father a technical manager, it was only natural that my sister and I became engineers.
I always knew I wanted to be a scientist, and during high school, I found my way to engineering. I pursued Materials Engineering, with a specialization in functional metallic materials, during my Ph.D. During my academic years, I studied abroad and met amazing people from all over the world. Sometimes I was the “host” in my hometown, while other times, I was the “foreigner” in another country. These experiences taught me the value of cultural and personal differences.
The opportunity to work at Quest Global in Aerospace arrived by chance while I was waiting for a plane (maybe was it a hint?). Or was it fate? You tell me. When I read the job posting, I felt like I found what I was looking for: my researcher soul could devote itself to finding and solving real problems through innovative solutions. That was the piece I was missing during my academic career.
I knew I had found what I was looking for. At Quest Global, as a Materials Application Engineer, I was able to work on-site with the customer in research and development activities, focusing on materials selection and green production processes. After just one year, I was promoted to team leader of the Materials Engineering Quest Global team by the customer. In this new position, I had to balance my time between performing technical tasks and caring for my team and customer needs, which is not always easy. But I love this “more human” part of my role and am delighted when I can make my colleagues’ job easier. I have come to understand more and more Quest Global’s inner mechanisms, and I am excited about how I can contribute to the company’s future.
For sure as the Quest Global saying goes “the best is yet to come”, but the beginning was not bad at all! I am grateful for the beginning and all the lessons it has taught me.
How a Curious Italian Girl with a Passion for Engineering Became a Team Leader at QuEST Global
We are Quest Global. We’re in the business of engineering, but what we’re really building is a brighter future. It’s not just what we do, but why we do it that makes us different. We believe engineering has the unique opportunity to solve the problems of today that stand in the way of tomorrow. For more than 25 years, we have strived to be the most trusted partner for the world’s hardest engineering problems. As a global organization headquartered in Singapore, we live and work in 17 countries, with 67 global delivery centers and offices, driven by 17,500+ extraordinary employees who make the impossible possible every day.
Quest Global delivers world-class end-to-end engineering solutions by leveraging our deep industry knowledge and digital expertise. By bringing together technologies and industries, alongside the contributions of diverse individuals and their areas of expertise, we are able to solve problems better, faster. This multi-dimensional approach enables us to solve the most critical and large-scale challenges across the aerospace & defence, automotive, energy, hi-tech, healthcare, medical devices, rail and semiconductor industries.