Configuration Management Administrator

Thales; Cheadle; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defence technology company located in Cheadle, UK, seeks a Configuration Management Administrator. The role provides opportunities for personal development and the chance to build an international career within a prestigious engineering group. Responsibilities include managing configuration data and ensuring integrity while fostering team collaboration. Candidates should have a keen eye for detail and a methodical approach. This position offers hybrid working flexibility and a variety of benefits including a pension scheme and mental wellbeing support.

Benefits

Half day every Friday

Pension Scheme

28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Employee Assistance Program

Employee discount shopping schemes

Qualifications

• Graduated with HNC or HND and experience in configuration management processes.
• Strong communicator willing to help and build relationships.
• Methodical, meticulous, and have advanced organizational skills.
• Ability to support teams with configuration management tools.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the registration and release of configuration data.
• Verify integrity and maintenance of records related to data.
• Ensure provision of up-to-date data to relevant functions.
• Record configuration baselines and provide status on any gaps.
• Translate decisions of Configuration Manager into tools as required.
• Be an expert in configuration management tools and provide support.
• Archive obsolete data.

Skills

Configuration management

Team collaboration

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Proactive approach

Education

Higher National Certificate (HNC)

Higher National Diploma (HND)

Tools

Configuration management tools

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Job description

Location: Cheadle, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems. Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Configuration Management Administrator

Templecombe - Hybrid (Minimum 3 days onsite)

Are you an inquisitive individual that has a passion for configuration management and integration? Do you have an interest in System Engineering and Analytics? Are you looking for your next challenge with the opportunity to work within a highly regarded team that will support with your learning and development? Then look no further.

What the role has to offer

• Room and attention to personal development
• Build your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or go to a more complex Solution
• Choose between a technical expertise or a leadership path
• Build an international career within a leading Engineering Group

Our Opportunity

We have a great opportunity for a Configuration Management Administrator to join the Thales Underwater systems (UWS) engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the registration and release of data managed in configuration
• Verify the integrity, validity and maintenance of records relating to the data, including traceability and history over the entire life cycle; take in charge the verification of the completeness of technical and non-technical data (whether internally and externally)
• Ensure the provision of up-to-date data to the relevant functions
• Record configuration baselines and provide status on identified gaps or omissions
• Translate the decisions of the Configuration Manager into the tool as required
• Be a configuration management tool (PLM) expert and provide support to the project/product team
• Archive obsolete data

Profile

• You graduated with a Higher National Certificate (HNC) or a Higher National Diploma (HND) and have experience in configuration management processes
• You are a communicator and a team player: you are willing to help and establish strong relationships with the rest of the team
• You are said to be methodical and meticulous, with a keen eye for details and advanced organizational skills
• You are proactive

Competencies

• You are able to understand configuration management processes and tools through the prism of contractual requirements and stakeholders’ needs
• You foster continuous improvement and encourage a culture of feedback
• You are able to multi-task and prioritise without requiring regular direct supervision
• You can support the team with your good knowledge of configuration management tools & practices, as well as that of the Product Lifecycle Management domain (tools, technical data, reporting)
• You have the ability to establish and meet deadlines
• You understand the importance of data integrity

Security Clearance Statement

Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires you to be a sole UK National and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance. To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the National Security Vetting (NSV) Agency.

Benefits

• Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm
• Hybrid working
• Pension Scheme
• 28 days annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays)
• Life Cover
• Progression and Development Opportunities
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
• Development focused targets, along with a variety of learning, development and career enhancement opportunities.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

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