Senior Configuration Engineer

Description

Senior Configuration Engineer

Stevenage – Hybrid Working

6 Month Plus Contract

Working with a Globally known Manufacturing Company within the Defence industry. They are actively seeking a Configuration Engineer on a 6 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 supporting the Configuration Manager of any given Project, including responsibility for the Product definition and/or Configuration Management of a minor project or major parts of a project. Tasks will require a level of initiative and require a high concern for order and quality to maintain the integrity of all elements which constitute the design for company products.

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 teams

Must be eligible to go through Security Clearance

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