Engineering Configuration Manager
Location: Bristol (Hybrid – 60% onsite, increasing to 80% onsite from September)
Rate: £38.00 per hour Umbrella / £28.41 per hour PAYE
Contract: Until July 2027 with strong likelihood of extension
Hours: 35 hours per week over 4.5 days
Security Clearance: BPSS+ (to be completed by the client)
We are recruiting for an experienced Engineering Configuration Manager to join a leading aerospace engineering organisation on a long-term contract. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a highly collaborative engineering environment, supporting complex aircraft programmes and playing a key role in engineering change and configuration management activities.
Working within a cross-functional team, you will be responsible for driving engineering configuration activities across the full product lifecycle, ensuring changes are delivered efficiently while maintaining compliance, quality and programme objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage engineering configuration and change management activities from initial proposal through to implementation.
- Coordinate engineering change process deliverables across multiple stakeholders.
- Support configuration management activities throughout the aircraft lifecycle.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Programme, Manufacturing, Airworthiness and other business functions to ensure programme milestones are achieved.
- Identify risks, manage priorities and implement corrective actions where required.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives and digital transformation projects.
- Champion configuration management best practice across engineering teams.
- Provide guidance and support to multidisciplinary teams on configuration processes and methods.
- Support workload planning to ensure delivery commitments are maintained.
Key Skills & Experience
We’re looking for candidates with strong experience in engineering configuration management and end-to-end engineering change processes.
Essential experience includes:
- Proven experience managing engineering configuration or technical change processes.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end Configuration Management (CM).
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience coordinating engineering changes across multiple teams and disciplines.
- Ability to manage competing priorities within a fast-paced engineering environment.
- Aerospace experience is highly desirable, although candidates from other highly regulated engineering sectors will also be considered.
Desirable experience:
- Product Data Management (PDM) tools.
- Configuration management toolsets.
- Engineering digitalisation or automation experience.
- Python or SQL knowledge.
- Experience using Skywise or similar digital platforms.
- Knowledge of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems.
Ideal Background
Suitable candidates may currently be working as:
- Engineering Configuration Manager
- Configuration Manager
- Engineering Change Manager
- Change Process Manager
- Engineering Change Coordinator
- Product Configuration Manager
Experience within aerospace is preferred; however, candidates from defence, automotive, rail, marine or other complex engineering environments with transferable configuration management expertise are encouraged to apply.
If you have a strong background in engineering configuration management and are looking for your next contract opportunity, we’d like to hear from you. Apply today with your latest CV for immediate consideration
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