Configuration Management Specialist in Cheltenham

Ontic, a leading licensor and manufacturer of complex engineering parts for the global aerospace and defence industries, is now recruiting for an Integrated Management System Auditor (IMSA) to join our IMS Compliance team where you'll support us in ensuring compliance and continuous improvement across our IMS system.

As a Configuration Management Specialist, you will be based across our 2 Gloucester sites and will be site-based 5 days per week. Ontic is more than just a business; we're a community of innovators who pride ourselves on fostering a culture where talent thrives, ideas flourish, and careers are built. We're committed to excellence, driving us to continuously improve and adapt, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of our industry.

The Role: This is an exciting opportunity to join Ontic’s Configuration & Change Management team, offering excellent career development within a highly collaborative engineering environment. The Configuration Management Specialist is a pivotal role and key to ensuring engineering change requests are accurately assessed, processed, and documented to a high standard and within agreed timelines.

Working closely with technical engineering teams across multiple sites, you will play a vital role in supporting configuration control activities and maintaining the integrity of engineering and manufacturing data. You will be:

• Monitoring and managing configuration and change request systems.
• Assessing engineering change data and supporting change query resolution.
• Analysing and processing PRs, ECRs, and ECNs through the Change Control process in line with Ontic procedures whilst maintaining data repositories and ensuring released data accurately reflects Windchill records.
• Organising and chairing Change Control Board meetings, including TRB and CIB reviews.
• Coordinating effective review and approval of ECRs and ECNs with wider cross-functional teams.
• Identifying process improvement opportunities and providing feedback to process owners.
• Collaborating closely with engineering and operational teams to ensure effective configuration management practices.

We welcome applicants with experience in roles such as: Change Analyst, Configuration Analyst, Document Controller, Data Controller, or Technical Administrator.

About you: At Ontic, our culture is integral to making sure we enjoy our work and deliver for our customers. While we look for the right skillset, we're also looking for someone who will thrive within our recognition and empowerment culture. Alongside the right technical capability, we are looking for someone who will thrive in a team-oriented environment and contribute positively across the business.

You will be comfortable managing priorities independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams, with strong communication skills and the ability to work across multiple departments and engineering disciplines. As this is a highly data-driven and systems-focused role, strong computer literacy and attention to detail are essential.

Experience required:

• Experience within Change Control, Engineering, or Manufacturing environments.
• Strong data management and administrative capability.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Confidence working with technical systems and engineering data.

Desirable:

• CM2 qualification.
• Knowledge of ERP systems.
• Experience using Windchill or similar PLM systems.
• Advanced Excel skills.

Benefits: At Ontic, we care about your financial, physical, and mental wellness, so we offer a range of benefits to support this. We care about what matters to you and have a valued culture of recognition and empowerment, accompanied by benefits that support work/life balance. Our benefits package highlights include:

• Up to 29 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays.
• 10 hours paid volunteering time.
• Annual goal share bonus scheme for all employees.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Discounts and offers from a range of retailers.

Best place to work: We are more than the sum of our parts. And we’ve been recognised internally and externally for being so:

• We were ranked #9 in Best Companies’ Q3 leaderboard for Best Manufacturing Company based on our employee feedback.
• 72.5% of employees who took part in our 2023 employee satisfaction survey said they are proud to work at Ontic.

No day is the same at Ontic; we have doubled in size over the last couple of years and are still in rapid growth. We attribute our success to empowering colleagues to create the opportunity, fostering an environment of autonomy where we ask for forgiveness, not permission.

Our values: Our values are intrinsic to everything we do:

• We share a common sense - we’re a global family of specialists with a shared passion for precision.
• We have the freedom to choose - we’re challengers and innovators with the freedom to think differently and challenge the status quo.
• We create the opportunity - we’re change-makers with a clear direction and can-do spirit.

We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic, and always seeking ways to improve, you'll enjoy a career with us!