Configuration Manager
Cwmbran, Wales
£ Competitive
Safran Seats is one of the world's leading manufacturers of aircraft seats, for both crew and passengers. 1 million Safran manufactured aircraft seats are currently in service with air fleets around the world.
In the UK, Safran Seats specialises solely in the First Class and Business Class seating markets for wide body aircraft, with industrial and engineering teams in Cwmbran, Wales.
Looking after the people who make Safran great is our priority. We offer a range of flexible benefits designed to support you—both in and out of work, including:
- 33 days holiday (incl. bank holidays)
- Pension Scheme, leading salary sacrifice employer contributions up to 10%
- Private Medical Cover (upgrade to cover family members)
- Salary sacrifice benefits scheme including cycle to work
- 4 x Life Assurance
- Interactive benefits platform (tech, retail benefits & income protection)
- Enhanced family friendly policies & employee assistance programme
- Annual share-save schemes
-Career advancement - Safran University and internal -Training and Development Schools
- Corporate Social Responsibility activities
Your Role
The Configuration Manager leads, develops, and maintains the SSGB Configuration Management System (CMS), ensuring effective control, traceability, and governance of product, programme, and business configurations throughout their lifecycle. The role ensures CMS alignment with Group and Branch processes, QMS requirements, Information Systems, and all applicable business and regulatory standards.
Lead and continuously improve the CMS, ensuring compliance with organisational, customer, OEM, and regulatory requirements through governance, monitoring, and KPI reporting.
Own and optimise the engineering change control process, maintaining clear responsibilities and effective Change Control Boards (CCBs).
Drive standardisation of configuration and engineering change practices, aligned with group processes, procedures, and best practice.
Produce and maintain configuration management data and reports supporting programme and project lifecycle requirements.
Assess changes in business, customer, and industry requirements, implementing improvements to configuration management processes.
Partner with Change and Programme Management teams to embed configuration control throughout programme delivery and change implementation.
Support Windchill PLM deployment and optimisation, ensuring configuration management principles and controls provide a robust foundation.
Analyse CMS performance and implement improvements that increase efficiency, reduce non-value-added engineering change, and strengthen configuration governance.
