Configuration Manager

Configuration Manager
Barnstaple based (with a mix of office and home-based working)
Salaries between £50k - £60k per annum DEO
 
We are SEA.
Engineered to protect. We protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world.
 
Join us.
As Configuration Manager, you will establish & manage a best practice Configuration Management presence within the company based on the use of ARAS Innovator Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to CM2 compliant process, ensuring master data integrity.
The role will see the job holder joining a successful engineering company, who have ambitious plans to develop new and technologically challenging markets across the world. The job holder will be required to work occasionally at SEAs other locations and from customer and supplier sites.
 
What we offer
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All Employee Bonus, Hybrid/flexible working arrangements, Half day Fridays.
Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program, Wellbeing centre
Electric vehicle charging points at all sites, Free on-site parking, Onsite showers and toiletries provision 
What you’ll be doing

Key stakeholder in the rollout of ARAS Innovator PLM & data input into ERP.
Establish & Manage the Configuration Management Team
Establish & manage CM best practice using ARAS PLM & CM2 process.
Provide a Configuration Management service to the business to support ISO 9001 / 10007 Def Stan 05-57 & other applicable CM standards.
Overall responsibility for the release of documentation, BoM, Part & change data in PLM & it’s transition to ERP to meet business commitments to agreed SLA’s.
Manage the Deviation & Concession process & incorporation into change where required to agreed SLA’s.
Provide guidance & where required conduct Functional & Physical Configuration Audit’s to ensure products adhere to their released requirements.
Write Project / Product specific Configuration Management Plans upon request.
Provide expert CM guidance support & where needed training on PLM, Change & Configuration best practice.
Collect & publish a full set of CM metrics
Support Continuous Improvement process development. 
The skills you need

Degree, HND or equivalent experience in a relevant discipline
Proven experience within Configuration Management ideally within the defence sector
Experience of ARAS innovator PLM is desirable or other equivalent PLM system; (training can be provided)
Proven ability to manage a team
Proven ability to communicate at all levels
Comprehensive understanding of the electronic manufacturing product lifecycle
Good understanding of ERP systems
Methodical approach to your work with attention to detail
CM2 accreditation (training can be provided)
Computer literate & competent in the use of the Microsoft toolset. 
Join us and be part of something smaller - with 400 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters.
 
If you would like to know more, please give our Talent Acquisition Business Partner Kelly Thomas a call on (phone number removed).

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