Configuration Engineer

Job Reference: BH-78836-1

Posted by: Lindsay Cunliffe

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Industry: Aerospace
Stevenage, UK
£50 – £55 per Hour

Description of role:

Senior Configuration Engineer
Stevenage – Hybrid Working
6 12 Month Plus Contract

Working with a Globally known Manufacturing Company within the Defence industry. They are actively seeking a Configuration Engineer on a 6 – 12 month plus contract within the Stevenage area.  

This is a good opportunity for someone in the Automotive industry who is looking to work within the Defence Industry.

Responsibilities:
The Senior Configuration Engineer is responsible for the Product definition and/or Configuration Management of a minor project or major parts of a project. 

Skillset/experience required:
  • High level of knowledge regarding principles of Configuration Management and the application of these within and demanding yet professional engineering environment.
  • Excellent Communication Skills – Verbal, Written, Electronic, across all levels
  • The ability to build rapport with stakeholders as well as positively promote the Configuration Management group through supportive and pro-active approach with internal customers.
  • Awareness of relevant internal and external customer requirements and standards.
  • Reflection of engineering input, through the engineering change process, into the design definition / structure, utilising the company PLM tool Windchill.
  • Managing, on behalf of project, the correct design definitions for potentially multiple product variants.
  • Successfully implementing engineering changes against the appropriate instances.
  • Provision of draft Configuration Management document updates to the project Configuration Manager ahead of the appropriate review period.
  • Comprehensive and timely preparation for Configuration Meetings.
  • Provision of data to Configuration Manager and project team against agreed timescales ahead of associated meetings.
  • Ensure control of project design definitions are adhered to across the development, production and in-service phases to provide comprehensive status accounting information to customer
  • Focal point of contact for day to day activities with project and engineering team

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