Configuration Controller vacancy in Loudwater, High Wycombe (306jc)

My client has delivered specialist defence equipment for over 30 years are now seeking a Configuration Controller to join their team.

Job Purpose
To co-ordinate and assign change control for the Company’s Command and Sonar Systems. This role covers numerous sites and involves effective stakeholder management (across many functions) and supports key configuration management activities.

Key Responsibilities:
• Authorise and assign roles to Change Requests in a manner that ensures visibility and value to the proposal.
• To undertake set tasks in the management of design data from an engineering environment
• Oversee transfer of configuration items and documentation to the customer (internal and external)
• Provide support to several Change Control Boards and support the preparation of review data packages and end item data packages
• Register and track classified data within the company guidelines and in accordance with MoD regulations and best practise
• Processing of secret and secure documents both internal and external to the business
• Review of CM and company documentation archiving as required

Working Conditions:
• The role is office based with some UK travel

Decision Making
• Day-to-day decisions on own activities within the Configuration domain

Communication & Contacts
• Regular verbal and written communication with internal and external stakeholders/customers/suppliers at a basic level
• Work with multinational teams
• Handle information of a sensitive, confidential or secret nature

Qualifications & Experience
• Experience of delivering change management
• Experience of engineering processes
• Background in the defence industry preferred
• Knowledge of Windchill/PDM systems and/or ERP systems.

Personal Qualities
• Able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Attention to detail and good concentration skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Logical, analytical approach to problem-solving
• Good self-organisational skills with the ability to prioritise, define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions
• Good communication skills with the ability to express ideas, share technical information and communicate at all levels
• Good interpersonal skills, able to liaise at an intermediate level and across different cultures
• Good team player, with a proactive, collaborative approach
• SC Clearance

In return the are offering an excellent base salary and benefits package and the ability to join a dynamic and expanding company that is seeking to grow the company for the next decade.