Configuration Change Manager
Configuration Change Manager
Filton (Hybrid - 60% onsite)
£35.71 per hour PAYE / £47.76 per hour Umbrella
35 hours per week | 4.5-day working pattern
Guidant Global is partnering with a world-leading aerospace organisation to recruit Configuration Change Managers to support high-profile programmes within the A320 family.
This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in managing complex engineering changes, driving accuracy, compliance, and delivery across a fast-paced and highly regulated environment.
About the Role
As a Configuration Change Manager, you will take ownership of the end-to-end change process, ensuring configuration data is accurate, controlled, and aligned with programme requirements.
Working cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, and project teams, you will help drive change governance, support industrialisation, and ensure modifications are delivered on time, to cost, and to quality standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the full configuration change lifecycle, including standard and customised modifications
- Ensure governance and compliance with internal processes and configuration standards
- Chair meetings, prepare documentation, and coordinate stakeholders across multiple functions
- Drive consistency and quality of inputs to support business cases, timelines, cost, and delivery
- Support industrialisation activities, including mod batching and programme alignment
- Manage configuration tools (e.g. ACC2 or similar), ensuring data accuracy and traceability
- Oversee modification opening, workflow progression, and closure activities
- Support incremental development and major project milestones across the A320 programme
- Produce modification breakdowns to support certification and programme delivery
- Act as a focal point for configuration management queries, ensuring timely resolution
- Provide regular updates and insights to internal teams and stakeholders
We're looking for candidates with strong configuration or change management experience within a complex engineering environment.
You will ideally have:
- Proven experience in configuration management, change control, or a similar role
- Background in aerospace or a highly regulated industry (manufacturing/engineering)
- Strong stakeholder management and coordination skills
- Experience working with configuration or enterprise systems (e.g. SAP or similar tools)
- A structured, detail-driven approach with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Knowledge of engineering change, industrial processes, or project environments
- Opportunity to work on industry-leading aerospace programmes
- Exposure to large-scale, complex engineering projects
- Collaborative, high-performing environment with strong technical teams
- Hybrid working offering flexibility and work-life balance
- Long-term contract with strong potential for extension
- Location: Filton (Hybrid - 60% onsite)
- Hours: 35 hours per week, typically across 4.5 days
- Security Clearance: BPSS+ (completed by the client)
- Travel: Occasional travel may be required
- IR35: Inside
- Interview Process: Single-stage interview (onsite preferred)
This is an opportunity to join a globally recognised aerospace leader and play a critical role in delivering complex configuration changes that directly impact aircraft production and performance.
If you're looking to take the next step in your configuration or change management career within a forward-thinking and innovative environment, we'd love to hear from you.
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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