Your responsibilities & tasks

The Configuration Controller is responsible to ensure:

• Product structure breakdown management according to applicable business standard, based on the inputs from design organisation and coordinating as necessary with the PO
• Top-level Product structure definition and baselines including restrictions, options and variants. Responsibilities covers TC approved designs and full-scale test articles (including helicopter prototypes).
• Product change management according to business standard. Responsibilities cover changes to (TC) Approved data and changes of released data to full-scale test articles.
• Ensuring configuration and change reports availability as necessary
• Providing and continuously managing standard specifications and standard parts
• Part definition and management, supervising the release flow.
• DMU management at aircraft level
• SH09 Configuration Management plan and directives (spanning over PO, MO, DO).

Tasks:

The Configuration Controller, coordinating the assigned team:

• Develops, creates, controls and maintains the top-level Product structure and the configuration level including restrictions, options and variants.
• Manages the drawing structure and the applicability of any modification to the fleet, including prototypes. Acts as change owner of changes in product main structure.
• Interacts with the chief engineers/design engineers as needed, during the design/modification process, reviewing and supporting the break down definition of a system into parts/drawings, verifying the consistency of the proposed changes and ensuring the correct distribution of information
• Coordinates the creation, maintenance and monitoring of the Digital Mock-up representation of the product (aircraft level), supporting the project engineers to check all the DMU aspects related to the systems or kits affected by the modification.
• Prepares configuration documentation, change request overviews and design data set reports for Authorities or other internal departments
• Interacts with program management office to create unique customer configurations based on existing TC approved configuration and new development.
• Interfaces with PO as necessary to support their configuration conformity.
• Develops, conducts and supports internal training in CM.
• Evaluates, proposes and prepares continuous improvements of tools, methods and guidelines in the CM area.

Your qualifications & competences

• 5 years of experience in the relevant areas of responsibilities of this function
• Bachelor degree in Engineering or Professional technical school or higher
• Experience in the relevant area of responsibilities (Change management, Configuration management, Product configuration/Identification)
• Skilled in using Siemens Teamcenter, NX or other CAD tool and SAP PLM.

The Configuration Controller:

• Is able to co ordinate the team tasks and activities
• Reports configuration development progress to the applicable position within DO
• Ensures that the configuration management rules are implemented
• Challenge and improves methods and best practices, providing the elements needed for a decision making process
• Is pro-active to plan, prioritize and timely complete tasks assigned
• interacting with all the necessary functions and escalating as needed
• Is able to keep a holistic perspective of product and change impacts acting with a strong problem solving attitude
• Is actively involved in the continuous improvement and optimization of configuration management processes

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