BOM & Change Lead, E&M Configuration (Windchill)

Thales; Herstal; On-site; EUR 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Thales in Herstal, Belgium, is seeking an experienced Configuration Management professional to support the CM team. The role focuses on creating and maintaining E- & M-BOM baselines, ensuring completeness before PLM finalization, and coordinating changes across development and manufacturing with Windchill and Creo.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of CM experience, working in product and process development, and strong French and English communication skills, with meticulous and organized

Qualifications

• >5 years of professional experience in a configuration management role.
• Experience in a product and process development team.
• Experience with a PLM system, ideally Windchill.
• Rigorous, meticulous, and organized.
• Strong soft skills, effective communication.
• Language: French proficient, English proficient.

Responsibilities

• Verify the content of the E- & M-BOM: structure, presence of BOM articles, necessary sub-assembly levels inclusive their documentation (DRW’s, production instructions, process inspections, production tools, …).
• Perform impact analysis of product & process changes with the different departments (logistics, quality, Methods, purchasing, bid & projects).
• Assure that all documents are validated (approvals) by the respective services before officializing them in the PLM system.
• Follow up in ECR and their related Change tasks, assure progress and completion within the desired time frame.
• Fine tuning change implementation with logistics, production and purchasing (activation date, product obsolescence’s => scrapping of stock, retrofit, …).
• Creation of Baseline BOM linked to project or contract mile stones
• Manage all product AND process changes with internal & customer regulations
• Manage M-BOM variants due to customer specific requirements

Skills

Configuration management

Windchill

PLM systems

Communication skills

Organized

Tools

Windchill

Creo

Job description

Thales in Herstal, Belgium, is seeking an experienced Configuration Management professional to support the CM team. The role focuses on creating and maintaining E- & M-BOM baselines, ensuring completeness before PLM finalization, and coordinating changes across development and manufacturing with Windchill and Creo.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of CM experience, working in product and process development, and strong French and English communication skills, with meticulous and organized