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 five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, 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.

**Configuration Management Administration**

**Location: Cheadle**
- Are you someone who has good attention to detail? Are you a good communicator and a team player? Would you like to work in a supportive environment? Got your interest, then look no further_

**What the role has to offer**:

- The opportunity to join a world-class company of 80,000 employees and with operations in 68 countries
- Working with a supportive and friendly team
- Being in a role which is analytical and organisationally driven
- Working across two sites within Thales
- The opportunity for development and progression at all levels of the organisation and the support to succeed wherever you want to take your career in the future

**Our Opportunity**

We have a great opportunity for a Configuration Management Administration to join Thales Under Water Systems (UWS) who provide underwater systems across a wide range of products and systems for submarines, surface vessels, mine-countermeasures vessels, unmanned vehicles and aircraft.

You will be responsible for the registration and release of data managed in configuration. As well as being responsible for verifying the integrity, validity and maintenance of records relating to the data, including traceability and history over the entire life cycle. You will also take charge the verification of technical and non-technical data (whether internally and externally).

As well as this, you will ensure the provision of up-to-date data to the relevant functions and record configuration baselines and provide status on identified gaps or omissions. You will also translate the decisions of the Configuration Manager into the tool as required. Additionally, you will become a configuration management tool (PLM) expert and provide support to the project/product team to archive obsolete data.

**About You**
- You will ideally have a degree in an engineering discipline as well as having knowledge of PLM toolsets for example Windchill/Teamcenter.
- 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 will be someone who is process driven, analytical and detail oriented.
- You are a communicator and a team player: you are willing to help and establish strong relationships with the rest of the team
- You have the ability to establish and meet deadlines
- You understand the importance of data integrity
- ** You will need to be able to obtain and secure security clearance without restrictions.** **For more information and guidance please visit the UKSV website**

**What We Can Offer**

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

**Benefits at Thales**

On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes;
- Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm
- Hybrid working (After training, 2-3 days in the office and the rest from home)
- Pension Scheme
- 28 days annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays)
- Life Cover
- Progression and Development Opportunities
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
- Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

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