Configuration Manager
- Portsmouth
- £30.34-41.00 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Location: Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
- Salary: £30.34 - 41.00 per hour + Inside IR35
- Category
- Sector:
- Contract type Contract
- Consultant: Andrew Morris
- Performing CM activities (identification, control and planning, change, status accounting, audit).
- Recording, controlling, maintaining and distributing the controlled data.
- Providing reports to the CADM Team Lead and/or the project, product or service teams.
- Work in a shared workload environment, and specifically support 1 project/product or more as the CADM focal point supported by CADM team members.
- Responsible, jointly with the rest of the CADM team to maintain the PLM/CMDB in a fit state.
- You may be required to manage data in more than 1 environment.
- Ability to work autonomously, as well as be a team player within the greater functional team, efficiently and methodically with good organisational and interpersonal skills is essential.
- Correspond with nominated counterparts in the customer and suppliers, recording external documentation into the CMDB and sending internal documentation to external stakeholders.
- Support all CM activities facing external stakeholder, providing evidence and supporting any related request.
- Ensure CM compliance by contributing to project level activities with internal and external stakeholders.
- Record documents / data in the CMDB.
- Control of existing documents in the CMDB.
- External/Internal Distribution of documents/data.
- Monitor and control the quality of internal documents.
- Creation and management of relevant structures in the CMDB.
- Monitor and control the state of the CMDB.
- Control access to the CMDB.
- Support Project team members for CADM related queries, provide guidance on both Document and Data Management and CMDB use.
- Propose process improvements.
- Support the CADM team members.
- Report on activities, CMDB state and documentation / data status.
- Support CADM Team Leader.
- Run the day-to-day management of the configuration status of the Project.
- Produce the Project Configuration and Data Management Plan(s), Project Change Management Plan and/or Procedure in line with PLM processes.
- Set up and run the CM activities as part of project lifecyle (inc. audits).
- Manage the Project(s) workload and highlight any perceived adjustments that might be required to the Local Team Lead or Department Head.
- Lead CADM team members assigned to 'your' project(s).
- Work closely with the Customer and Project ensuring the requirements are maintained without additional cost or impact to Project or Customer.
- Create, manage and distribute the relevant structures (BOMs, Product Trees, Equipment Assembly trees, etc.).
- Support Project team members for CADM related queries and provide guidance on both Configuration Management and CMDB use.
- Set up and run the CCB activities (Initiation, assessment, CCB facilitation, agenda and report).
- Develop CM processes & Tool improvements.
- Digitally Literate and proficient with MS Office Tools
- Previous use of file/data management tools (MS Office, PDF editor, FTP, Nero, etc.).
- Full Configuration Management knowledge (Configuration Identification, Configuration Structures (Assembly / Product etc), Baseline Management, Change Management, Status Accounting, Auditing).
- Skills in Product Data Management tools (Windchill, Teamcenter, Aras Minerva, etc.) required
- Understanding of project, product lifecycle highly desirable.
- Exposure to APQP, CMII would be an asset
- Setting up the Configuration processes on new project highly desirable.