Configuration and Data Engineer

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• 6 times salary Life Assurance with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, with option to buy/sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Car/Car allowance (dependent on grade/role)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice options (Health Cashplan, Dental, Cycle to Work, etc.)
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Private Medical Insurance (dependent on grade)

Work culture:

• 37‑hour working week with an early 1.30pm finish on Fridays
• Remote, hybrid or site‑based options available
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year
• Flexible working culture focused on output with formal arrangements assessed on request

Responsibilities

• Apply and administer Configuration Management and Data Management (CMDM) processes across the business area to ensure compliance with Raytheon, Customer, and industry requirements.
• Conduct configuration planning, identification, control, status accounting, and auditing for development and operational systems.
• Construct Configuration Management Plans, integrating Subcontractor and Customer plans as required.
• Administer configuration control systems and collaborate with Subcontractor configuration management.
• Manage configuration control boards, produce agendas, facilitate meetings, and document outcomes and actions.
• Oversee data management, including maintenance and administration of programme data repositories and libraries.
• Audit programme and product data for compliance with customer, security, and programme standards.
• Perform configuration status accounting and reporting.
• Prepare for and participate in programme and technical gate reviews; prepare configuration baseline audits (e.g., FCA, PCA).
• Act as Control Account Manager (CAM) for CMDM resources and activities; compile Basis of Estimate (BOE).
• Participate in Estimate at Completion (EAC) reviews for existing and new programmes.
• Contribute to Risk Management reviews and report to the function.
• Advise project staff on configuration management policies and standards, applying them pragmatically to solve business requirements.
• Provide CMDM training and coaching to Raytheon staff, fostering necessary skills.
• Collaborate with other Raytheon sites and businesses to implement new configuration management tools and develop common processes and methodologies.
• Act as a subject matter expert in external company certification audits (ISO, DAOS) and internal quality audits.
• Review and update existing Raytheon processes and create new processes to support the business.

Essential Qualifications

• Conversant with Military and Commercial CM standards.
• Experience implementing CMDM planning to manage project and product data and controlled/classified artefacts, complying with US and UK Export Controls and Legal & Contractual Requirements.
• Effective communication with multiple levels of management across programme, quality, engineering, production, and commercial disciplines.
• Industrial background in Configuration Management, interfacing with systems, software, hardware and test engineering disciplines.
• Execution and development of core configuration management processes (planning, control, identification, status accounting, data library, release, delivery, audits).
• Experience with configuration management tools and proficiency in advanced Microsoft Office features (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access) or equivalent database tools.
• Knowledge of CMDM requirements within engineering development and product‑in‑service lifecycles.
• Ability to evaluate programme documents for CM process impact.
• Self‑motivated, able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Must have or be able to achieve SC level security clearance.

Desirable Qualifications

• CMIIB or other recognised CM specialist certification.
• Knowledge of Knowledge in Defence (KiD), Defence Standard 05‑57 or ISO 10007.
• Knowledge of MBSE development or Polarian Tool usage.
• Working knowledge of PTC Windchill configuration management tool.
• Experience with improvement initiatives and techniques such as Six‑Sigma and High Performing Culture.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including briefing package preparation and presentation to programme management and customers.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.