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This position plays a critical role in ensuring technical information, engineering data, documentation, and design baselines are effectively controlled throughout the project lifecycle.\nYou will be responsible for maintaining the integrity of engineering configurations, managing change control processes, supporting audits, and ensuring compliance with configuration management standards and governance requirements. The role offers the opportunity to work across complex multidisciplinary engineering programmes, collaborating with technical, project, quality, and assurance teams.\nThis is a permament staff position based in Reading working on a hybrid basis. Due to the nature of the work you must either cleared to SC or DV level.\nKey Responsibilities\nConfiguration Identification\nDefine and maintain Configuration Items (CIs) across engineering programmes.\nEnsure all controlled documentation, drawings, specifications, and technical artefacts are uniquely identified and appropriately version controlled.\nMaintain configuration records within the organisation's configuration management system and document repository.\nBaseline Management\nEstablish, maintain, and control approved engineering baselines.\nEnsure configuration baselines are accurately recorded and protected from unauthorised changes.\nSupport the release and maintenance of design, functional, and product baselines.\nChange Control\nAdminister configuration and engineering change processes in accordance with approved procedures.\nCoordinate change requests and support technical review activities.\nEnsure all configuration changes are correctly assessed, approved, implemented, 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