The Alliance Configuration Management Engineer is responsible for developing, implementing, and assuring the configuration management framework across the Rail Systems Alliance. Working closely with alliance partners and stakeholders, you will ensure a consistent approach to configuration control, change management, and interface management across multiple contracts and disciplines.
This role is critical in ensuring that designs, approvals, and delivered assets remain aligned, traceable, and compliant throughout the asset lifecycle, supporting effective project delivery and governance across the alliance.
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Configuration Identification: Define the alliance approach to identifying and maintaining configuration items, including track slab designs, materials and components. Establish common configuration baseline principles and ensure alignment between design documentation, BIM models and physical assets across alliance members.
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Configuration Control (Change Management): Develop and agree common change control methods and governance arrangements across the alliance. Provide assurance that impacts to cost, schedule, safety and performance are appropriately assessed and that changes are reviewed, approved and documented before implementation.
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Configuration Status Accounting: Define and oversee the configuration status accounting approach across alliance members, ensuring configuration records, registers and revision histories are maintained consistently, remain auditable and provide visibility of current configuration status.
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Verification and Audit: Establish assurance requirements and support audits, inspections and quality reviews to confirm that approved configurations are being implemented correctly and remain compliant with HS2 standards and contractual requirements.
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Information and Digital Management: Coordinate the integration of configuration management with BIM and digital engineering processes. Promote consistent control of documentation, models and asset information and support development of the Asset Information Model for handover.
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Governance and Process Development: Develop, maintain and continuously improve alliance-wide configuration management procedures aligned with HS2 and Rail Systems Alliance requirements. Support governance forums, assurance activities and cross-contract issue resolution.
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Support escalation and resolution of cross-contract configuration and interface issues.
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Engage with HS2, delivery partners and assurance bodies to promote alignment on configuration management principles and practices.
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Lead or support alliance-wide configuration management working groups and forums.
