Nuclear Configuration Lead (Hybrid)

Carrington West; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 66,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Carrington West is seeking a Configuration Manager for Nuclear / Highly Regulated Engineering based in Reading, with hybrid on-site work (3 days/week). This 12-month contract offers an hourly rate up to £80 Inside IR35.

You will establish and improve configuration arrangements across complex projects and lead handover of safety-critical systems. You will work across electrical, mechanical, HVAC, process, control and instrumentation, civil and structural domains, driving gaps to resolution and

Qualifications

• Experience with configuration management in complex engineering projects.
• Knowledge of nuclear safety case requirements is desirable.
• Strong stakeholder management and leadership within multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Establishing and maintaining registers of managed configuration baselines.
• Performing gap analysis to confirm that appropriate baselines have been identified, established and controlled.
• Establishing and maintaining baseline owner registers and ensuring accountability for the quality of baseline information.
• Integrating configuration management activities with project, engineering and lifecycle delivery teams.
• Ensuring configuration baselines are accurately maintained throughout project delivery and handover.
• Establishing, implementing and maintaining formal configuration management audit processes.
• Developing and improving configuration management procedures and their integration with change management processes.
• Identifying configuration gaps, non-conformances, blockers and open points and driving them through to resolution.
• Supporting configuration control of engineering and project documentation.
• Establishing and documenting the As-Found Condition of systems and assets in preparation for completion and handover.
• Supporting document management and information and knowledge management processes.
• Reviewing design changes for compliance with configuration management requirements.
• Providing oversight of contractual deliverables and interfaces within established handover processes.
• Producing Configuration Management KPIs, status reports and closure strategies.
• Facilitating and mediating issues across multidisciplinary teams to achieve successful project outcomes.
• Supporting the final completion, acceptance and handover of systems into operations.

Skills

Nuclear safety-critical systems

Systems integration

Configuration management

Change control

Documentation control

Handover processes

Engineering lifecycle

Job description

Carrington West is seeking a Configuration Manager for Nuclear / Highly Regulated Engineering based in Reading, with hybrid on-site work (3 days/week). This 12-month contract offers an hourly rate up to £80 Inside IR35.

You will establish and improve configuration arrangements across complex projects and lead handover of safety-critical systems. You will work across electrical, mechanical, HVAC, process, control and instrumentation, civil and structural domains, driving gaps to resolution and