Configuration Engineer

Location: Brighton and Hove

Job Title – Configuration Management Engineer

Job Location – Brighton, UKOur Brighton business is moving to a new location in 2027. The new site is expected to be located in either Shoreham, Burgess Hill or Horsham and will be within a 15-minute drive of our current site.

Job  – 36211

About this opportunity and L3

Harris UKFrom 11 UK sites, our team of nearly 1,000 people delivers unique capabilities across space, air, land, sea and cyber for military, security and commercial customers across the UK and worldwide.

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Harris in Brighton are part of Release Systems and the Mission Avionics sector operating in the Aerospace domain. Our mission-critical release systems equipment is on most major airborne fighter platforms worldwide, including the F-35, along with other aircraft like the Gripen and Typhoon. Brighton designs, manufactures and tests a large portion of its release systems portfolio. This facility offers 48,500 square feet of manufacturing space for the development of high-performance, multi-station solutions used to launch air-to-air and air-to-ground munitions from bay, wing or fuselage stations.

Are you looking for an opportunity to grow and enhance your skills as a Configuration Management Engineer in a dynamic industry that is constantly developing and delivering innovative, next-generation capabilities? We’re looking for a Configuration Management Engineer to work with release equipment which includes high integrity electro-mechanical and pneumatic systems, electrical umbilical harnesses utilised for stores carriage and release within the aerospace and defense domain.

You will be required to discharge the 5 key Configuration activities into Delivery Teams across all lifecycle phases of a Programme. Within this role, you will provide clear direction into the Delivery Teams on C&DM process and tools be that at the System Requirements, System level, Software, modelling or hardware. In doing so, you must be prepared to ‘challenge the norm’ and support the Delivery Teams in process tailoring to fit the lifecycle phase and/or context of a Programme.

Please note, our Brighton business is moving to a new location in 2027. The new site is expected to be located in either Shoreham, Burgess Hill or Horsham and will be within a 15-minute drive of our current site.

A few of our employee benefits are:

Half day finish on a Friday Hybrid working available upon successful completion of 3 month probation period
25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days Private medical insurance with optional family cover

Pension scheme of up to 8% employer contribution

Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x) Group income protection

Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover, cycle to work scheme and electric vehicle scheme

Employee Family Assistance Program providing mental health and wellbeing support Professional membership reimbursement (discretionary) What the role will involve

The responsibilities of your role will include, but not limited to the following:

Drive a proactive CM and DM approach to Delivery Teams Deliver agreed-to Work packages into the Delivery Teams to established cost and schedule constraints

Configuration Management Planning including generation, review of CM Plan and execution of a CM Plan Configuration Identification Change Control – Analyse proposed design changes to determine the effect on the overall system. Will co-chair and operate Change Control Boards including providing Configuration status inputs to the Board Provide Configuration Status Accounting with emphasis on the generation and management of Configuration Baselines Verification and Audit (conduct FCA/PCA)
Working in partnership with our engineering delivery teams to ensure the Project dataset is maintained and configuration controlled

What you’ll bring The role requires the following experience and skills:

An understanding of Configuration Management/Engineering with a background in a related Engineering discipline (Configuration, Systems, Electronics, Mechanical etc.) Ideally…