Senior Configuration Engineer required for long term hybrid contract assignment based out of Stevenage.
Overview of department:
Supporting a dynamic team of 30+ Configuration specialists across multiple products, packages, and life cycles in a multi-national environment.
Responsibilities:
1. 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.
2. 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:
* Excellent Team Spirit and ability to work as part of a team and add value through contribution.
* High level of knowledge regarding principles of Configuration Management and the application of these within a demanding yet professional engineering environment.
* High concern for order and quality.
* 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 a supportive and pro-active approach with internal customers.
* Pro-active, flexible, and enthusiastic.
* Ability to plan and deliver own workload.
* Awareness of relevant internal and external customer requirements and standards.
* High degree of IT literacy.
* Reflection of engineering input, through the engineering change process, into the design definition/structure, utilising the company PLM tool Windchill.
* Managing, on behalf of the project, the correct design definitions for potentially multiple product variants. Successfully implementing engineering changes against the appropriate instances.
* Review of engineering changes for respective projects to ensure business processes are applied and approbation controls laid out by projects are adhered to. Acceptance or Rejection of changes as appropriate.
* 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 the 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 customers.
* Working relationships with key stakeholders established. Focal point of contact for day-to-day activities with project and engineering teams.
* Support and guidance to project areas with regards to applicable Engineering Change methodologies appropriate to the product or equipment life cycle. Engineering changes processes agreed, documented, and in practice.
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