Configuration Management Administration

Location: Cheadle, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space.

Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

CANDIDATES THAT WOULD IMPRESS US

• You graduated with a Higher National Certificate (HNC) or a Higher National Diploma (HND) and have experience in configuration management processes.
• You are a communicator and a team player: you are willing to help and establish strong relationships with the rest of the team.
• You are said to be methodical and meticulous, with a keen eye for details and advanced organizational skills.
• You are proactive.

COMPETENCIES:

• You are able to understand configuration management processes and tools through the prism of contractual requirements and stakeholders’ needs.
• You foster continuous improvement and encourage a culture of feedback.
• You are able to multi-task and prioritise without requiring regular direct supervision.
• You can support the team with your good knowledge of configuration management tools & practices, as well as that of the Product Lifecycle Management domain (tools, technical data, reporting).
• You have the ability to establish and meet deadlines.
• You understand the importance of data integrity.

LIFE AS A THALES CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATION ROLE

As a Configuration Management Administration Role within Thales, you will:

• Be responsible for the registration and release of data managed in configuration.
• Verify the integrity, validity and maintenance of records relating to the data, including traceability and history over the entire life cycle.
• Take in charge the verification of the completeness of technical and non-technical data (whether internally and externally).
• Ensure the provision of up-to-date data to the relevant functions.
• Record configuration baselines and provide status on identified gaps or omissions.
• Translate the decisions of the Configuration Manager into the tool as required.
• Be a configuration management tool (PLM) expert and provide support to the project/product team.
• Archive obsolete data.

YOUR CAREER AT THALES

Future opportunities will allow you to discover other domains or sites. You will be able to evolve and grow your competencies in different areas:

• Room and attention to personal development.
• Build your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or go to a more complex Solution.
• Choose between a technical expertise or a leadership path.
• Build an international career within a leading Engineering Group.

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process.

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