Data & Configuration Management Specialist

Job Details

Date Posted:  
• Country:
United Kingdom
•

Location:

Barrow‑In‑Furness, Cumbria
• Position:
Data & Configuration Management Specialist
• Role Type:
Hybrid (min 3 days a week on site)
• Status:
Permanent

Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• Six times salary life assurance with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) plus statutory public holidays, with option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days (37 hr)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice options, including Health Cashplan, Dental, Cycle to Work, and others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family‑friendly policies, including maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• 37‑hour working week (hours may vary by role)
• Early finish of 1.30pm on Friday
• Remote, hybrid and site‑based working options tailored to role needs
• 5 paid days volunteering per year

• Manage, maintain and control large volumes of data and technical documentation, ensuring accuracy, traceability and accessibility.
• Utilise advanced Microsoft Excel and other data‑management tools to analyse, track and report on key information.
• Support and administer engineering change processes, ensuring all changes are documented, controlled and implemented in line with established procedures.
• Apply structured change‑management practices to maintain integrity across documentation and systems.
• Maintain and improve configuration‑management processes and systems, ensuring alignment with business and regulatory requirements.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders across engineering, project management and operations teams.
• Ensure compliance with internal processes, quality standards and security requirements.
• Identify opportunities to improve data handling, reporting and configuration‑control processes.

• Proven experience managing large volumes of engineering or technical data and documentation within a regulated or high‑assurance environment.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel (data analysis, complex formulas, pivot tables, reporting) and familiarity with enterprise data systems.
• Experience working with engineering change‑management processes in a controlled environment.
• Strong understanding of configuration‑management principles, processes and systems (e.g., CMII or equivalent frameworks).
• Ability to build effective working relationships across multidisciplinary defence teams and stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical skills with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast‑paced, programme‑driven environment.

• Experience in defence, aerospace or government programmes.
• Familiarity with PLM and/or document‑management systems (e.g., Siemens Teamcenter, Windchill, SAP).
• Knowledge of relevant standards such as DEF STANs, ISO
  10007 (Configuration Management) or AQAP.
• Experience supporting in‑service support or lifecycle management programmes.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.