Principal/Associate Configuration Manager

Join our team as a Principal/Associate Configuration Manager, where you will lead and manage the implementation of Configuration Management (CM) methodology for a large-scale programme. You will be the Process Owner, Single Point of Contact, and Functional Manager for the programme, ensuring synergy, standardization, and performance to business requirements. Your responsibilities will include establishing and maintaining a programme-level CM system, providing capability planning and budgeting, managing CM risks, and building relationships with external businesses and industry experts. You will also define the programme CM organization and role definitions, ensure competent CM resources are provided, and raise Non-Conformance Reports when process failures are observed.

• Establishing and implementing a comprehensive Configuration Management (CM) system, including strategy, policy, plan, procedures, standards, organization, people, processes, and tools.
• Leading and managing configuration management at a company or programme level for complex multiple discipline large scale programmes across the full technical lifecycle.
• Collaborating with the Client Subject Matter Expert (SME) to ensure programme CM requirements are achieved throughout the life of the programme.
• Educated to Degree or HND/HNC level and having experience in Senior Management Training/Qualification
• Desirables- Good understanding of Local industry standards, Licence conditions and business operations
• Able to drive and achieve culture and step change
• Skills required- In depth understanding and proven application of CM Standards (Def Stan 05-57, Def Stan 05-61, EIA-649, ISO10007 and IpX CMII)
• Good leadership skills
• Worked within a highly regulated/ licensed nuclear environment
• Fully Conversant with System Engineering, Technical Quality Assurance, Project Management, and In Service (Operations, Maintenance and Asset Management) principles
• Quality and commercially driven
• Be fully conversant and experienced in the functionality and implementation of CM tools (comprehensive PLM tools) for managing Product Data, Asset Data, Requirements, Documents, Drawings, Records and CAD Models
• Experience of managing a dispersed and often indirect team of people to successfully achieve CM directives
• Cross Party/Company collaboration skills
• Behavioural- Excellent influencing and communicating skills
• Visionary, whilst maintaining support for current business needs
• Experience of managing a team of people to successfully achieve CM delivery milestones in a timely and accurate manner
• Professional Member of the Institute of CM or similar
• Able to demonstrate knowledge and experience of performing CM at the company/programme level in support of Projects and In-Service throughout the full product/system lifecycle within a similar environment