Configuration Management Engineer

Cailabs; Rennes; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Team events

Health insurance

Performance bonus

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Cailabs in Rennes is seeking a Configuration Management Engineer to join the Systems Engineering team and reinforce product configuration control across lifecycles.

You will bridge Engineering, Industrial Operations and Support Functions to ensure consistency of baselines, versions and changes, and to deploy PLM/ERP processes across design and production. Reporting to the Head of Systems Engineering, the role offers a chance to build robust CM practices in a multidisciplinary environment.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Industrial Systems Engineering or equivalent with relevant experience.
• Strong knowledge of product configuration management, BOMs and version control.
• Experience with PLM/ERP tools and multidisciplinary environments.
• Advanced English proficiency required.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement configuration management rules and processes.
• Drive adoption of CM rules across functions.
• Ensure consistency of baselines across Sales, Design, Manufacturing and Maintained products.
• Manage product versions, baselines and instances.
• Lead ECRs and impact analyses for product changes.
• Deploy and maintain the PLM system and interfaces to design/production repositories.
• Maintain accuracy and consistency of technical databases related to configuration.

Skills

Product engineering

Systems engineering

BOM management

Version control

PLM tools

ERP tools

Multidisciplinary work

Education

Master's degree in Industrial Systems Engineering

Bac+2 with 10+ years industrial experience

Tools

PLM software

ERP software

Job description

The company

Founded in 2013, Cailabs designs, manufactures, and develops innovative photonic solutions for the space, industry, telecommunications, and defense sectors. A global specialist in laser shaping, the company has accelerated its growth in the space field with turnkey optical ground stations that integrate atmospheric turbulence compensation technology. This makes it one of the first companies to harness very high data rates enabled by optics in a commercial ground station.

Cailabs currently has more than 200 employees, including 41PhDs. With 29 patent families filed, the company is one of the most innovative companies in France. It is headquartered in Rennes, with offices in Paris and Washington (USA).

Post description

Join Cailabs’ Systems Engineering team and play a key role in maintaining product configuration control throughout the entire product lifecycle.

As a Configuration Management Engineer, you will be at the heart of the interfaces between Engineering, Industrial Operations and Support Functions, with responsibility for ensuring consistency across product configurations, versions and changes.

This is a newly created position offering the opportunity to build, structure and continuously improve configuration management practices, working closely with teams with complementary areas of expertise.

Reporting to the Head of Systems Engineering, you will work in a multidisciplinary environment.

Your role will be to ensure consistency across different functions and facilitate effective control of product changes throughout the product lifecycle.

You will be responsible for structuring, deploying and coordinating product configuration management activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and implement configuration management rules and processes.
• Drive the adoption and application of these rules across the relevant functions.
• Ensure consistency across the Sales, Design, Manufactured and Maintained product baselines and repositories.
• Manage product versions, baselines and product instances.
• Lead product change processes, including Engineering Change Requests (ECRs).
• Lead and coordinate impact analyses related to product changes and evolutions.
• Deploy and maintain the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system.
• Ensure consistency and effective interfaces between design and production repositories.
• Ensure the accuracy, consistency and ongoing maintenance of technical databases related to product configuration.

Profile required

You have a technical background and solid professional experience that has enabled you to develop a strong understanding of industrial products and their development lifecycles.

• Master’s degree (Bac+5) in Industrial Systems Engineering or a related field, with at least 5 years of experience in an industrial environment, or a technical degree (Bac+2) with more than 10 years of industrial experience.
• Strong product and systems engineering knowledge, ideally covering optics, electronics, mechatronics and software.
• Strong expertise in product configuration management, Bills of Materials (BOMs) and version control systems.
• Proficiency with PLM / ERP tools.
• Experience working in multidisciplinary environments.
• Experience in systems architecture would be an advantage.
• Advanced English proficiency is required.

Beyond your technical expertise, you are recognized for:

• Your rigor in managing and structuring technical information.
• Your ability to work effectively with stakeholders from different technical and functional backgrounds.
• Your excellent cross-functional communication skills.
• Your ability to influence, build consensus and drive topics forward.
• Your understanding of both R&D and industrial environments.
• Your ability to step back, assess situations objectively and propose pragmatic solutions.

Benefits

• Regular opportunities for team bonding and social events (annual seminar, team lunches, group games, sports activities, etc.);
• 100% employer-covered health insurance;
• A bonus scheme rewarding both collective and individual performance;
• Joining Cailabs also means having the assurance that everything will be put in place to help you perform, grow, and take on new challenges.

Required languages

• English - Level advanced

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