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Senior Configuration Engineer

Job details
Posting date: 18 July 2024
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 17 August 2024
Location: Pentrebach, CF48 4LA
Company: General Dynamics Lands Systems UK
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 398

Summary

Description

General Dynamics Land Systems is on the look-out for a full-time Senior Configuration Engineer to join our established Team. The successful and inclusive candidate will earn a favourable salary of £43,200 to £54,000 based on experience and potential. This is an ideal role for someone who has a proactive and positive mindset and a keen desire to grow professionally. Joining an established team based at our Merthyr ( South Wales ) facility, you will work across a range of stakeholders that will require close liaison and co-operation with the engineering and integration subject matter experts and the platform, manufacturing & domain expertise residing in the wider GD businesses. If you were already working in this position, this is what you would have been working on this week:
  • Raise and maintain Product Baselines, including Bills of Material (BOM) where applicable, ensuring build standards are defined and repeatable
  • Manage the Configuration Change Management process for product designs
  • Participate in technical and design reviews to ensure that CM activities are covered in line with the Integrated Project Plan;
  • Liaise with and support Partners, Suppliers and the Customer on configuration issues
  • Promoting consistent use of PDM (PTC Windchill) and provide support to users
  • Conduct Physical Audits at Suppliers to ensure products meet requirements and ensure Product Baseline is established
To apply for this role, you will require the following:
  • Experience of working in an engineering/manufacturing organisation in a configuration role
  • Ability to communicate clearly and professionally, both written and orally, with a broad range of people including Lead Engineers, Programme Managers, Customers and Suppliers
  • Technical awareness/understanding of engineering applications;
  • PDM tool administrator/super-user role experience;
  • Experience using Oracle ERP systems
  • Knowledge of Computer Aided Design Packages specifically PRO-E
  • Experience using Oracle ERP systems
  • Experience of managing engineering change
Our Company Benefits: We pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose, offering highly competitive benefits:
  • A compressed nine-day fortnight – which means every other Friday off!
  • A flexible benefits scheme - allowing you to adapt your benefits to suit yours and your family’s needs
  • A personalised career development plan, alongside regular progress reviews - supporting and valuing your progression within the Company
  • Professional training and development courses, both internal and external - allowing you to reach your full potential
  • A flexible working environment where your contributions are recognised and rewarded, which includes compressed hours, reduced hours and job share
  • A Company sports and social club, offering events at discounted prices – giving you the opportunity to meet and socialise with your fellow colleagues outside the workplace
About General Dynamics UK General Dynamics Land Systems is a global leader in providing products and support across the full spectrum of combat vehicles. Our global team has more than 6,000 employees working towards creating a diverse product portfolio delivering best-in-class capability to Armed Forces communities worldwide. In the UK, we employee more than 650 people and are leading the way in Armoured Fighting Vehicles and sustainment services. Our vision is documented and embedded into our culture, so all employees understand the Company’s direction and their role in achieving it. We are currently delivering the AJAX programme, providing 589 Armoured Fighting Vehicles in six variants to the British Army and have also developed and delivered 400 Foxhound vehicles - a highly-protected and mobile 4x4 platform with high-deployment availability.We believe in maintaining a diverse workplace – inclusive of beliefs, cultural background, job experiences, thoughts and ideas. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high performance team

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