Senior Configuration Engineer

Job Title: Senior Configuration Engineer

Location: Rochester, Kent - 4 days on site

Role Type: Permanent

Our client, an established electronics manufacturing firm in Rochester, require an experienced Senior Configuration Engineer to join their multi-disciplined team specialising in Aerospace electronics.

The Senior Configuration Engineer will ensure that the company configuration management procedures are implemented across all products in a considered and consistent manner, in accordance with company procedures

Candidates would need to have lived & worked in the UK for 5+ years and be eligible for BPSS security clearance.

What the role of the Senior Configuration Engineer entails:

Some of the main duties of the Senior Configuration Engineer will include:

• Ensure that Configuration Management (CM) requirements are disseminated across all contracted projects
• Liaise with Customers to define, clarify, and correctly interpret CM specifications and requirements
• Proactively advise and support programs on all aspects of CM, being the interface for documentation management and control
• Provide bid support through the generation of estimates in-accordance-with CM estimating metrics
• Regularly review resource requirement, project planning and contribute to process improvements
• Manage and maintain project status data within your area of responsibility

What experience you need to be the successful Senior Configuration Engineer:

• An applied understanding of the key elements of Configuration Management (CM) and be able to support audits
• Capability of applying industry CM standards requirements
• Conversant with CMII process model
• Ability to apply configuration identification techniques as to provide guidance to project and engineering teams
• Demonstrable expertise in configuration status accounting
• Knowledge of engineering, manufacturing, and full project life cycles