About this job

Sapienza Consulting, a Serco company, is recruiting a Configuration Management Officer for Sapienza to work on our Customers Site (ESA-ESTEC).

Sapienza has been a partner of ESA for almost 30 years, and we pride ourselves in supporting a wide range of missions including Galileo, MTG, Copernicus and ExoMars. Our team is international with activities across the U.K., the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Responsibilities

Establishing adequate processes for proper Product configuration control, including:

• Configuration management planning.
• Configuration items identification, technical requirements base lining, production and maintenance of configuration item data list (CIDL).
• Management of configuration evolution, baselines verification, as-built control and inspections.

• Establishing configuration control methods, procedures and standards.
• Establishing and/or assuring that adequate configuration control methods, procedures and standards are established and/or maintained, consistent with applicable standards/requirements.
• Preparing formal requirements for inclusion in industrial contracts.
• Participating in Project Reviews.
• Conducting configuration audits and configuration inspections.
• Supervising the processing and disposition of Change Requests and/or Change Proposals.
• Providing status data and maintaining a well-structured record system; acting as secretary to appropriate Boards established for the processing of changes.
• Establishing and maintaining the approval system for all documents under formal ESA control and maintaining the associated DRLs and DRDs.
• Supporting the supervision and maintenance of the documentation library and archives.
• Proposing automated methods and tools required to increase performance of configuration and documentation control tasks.

Profile

• A Master’s degree in Engineering, or equivalent, or an MBA or equivalent university degree from a recognized institution of secondary studies in Business Administration (with a minimum of four years’ relevant experience).
• Experience in controlling and/or management of activities and resources in aerospace industry. For some tasks knowledge of Finance/Accounting may be required.
• Highly proficient in the use of modern activities and resource management support tools/databases of standard office automation support software packages including advance usage of Excel (Ms-Office and in particular advanced use of Excel).
• Proven experience in Configuration Management in space companies/organizations.
• Adequate knowledge and understanding of the applicable ESA Configuration Management requirements and standards such as MS-ESA-RQ-100, MS-ESA-RQ-108, ECSS-M40.
• Experience as a user of SAP and in particular ECC and SRM modules and familiarity with relevant ESA corporate applications e.g. ESA-p) is preferred.
• Ability to rapidly understand and adapt to ESA specific context and environment including ESA corporate IT applications. Past experience with ESA in relevant activities.
• Good knowledge of the specific activities and/or organization, of the applicable configuration management working procedures and support tool(s).
• Previous experiences in fields like Product Assurance, System Engineering and Production Control is desired.
• Excellent interpersonal skills are needed, together with a high degree organizational and communication abilities.
• Comfortable with working in a diverse and multinational team environment.
• Proficient in the English language, both written and spoken.
• Knowledge of another ESA member-state language is an asset.
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the EU.