Product Change Leader

Our client has an opportunity for a Product Change Leader to join them on a contract basis until November 2026. You will be looking at the cost of the multiple production areas and finding ways to reduce it.

Role: Product Change Leader
Location: Filton – 60% onsite as a minimum
Hours: 35 per week
Hourly Rate: £46.82 per hour via Umbrella, inside IR35
Clearance: BPSS required to start

What you’ll be doing:

• Maturity Board: Evaluate technical proposal and its impacts to manufacturing & in-service.
• Decision Board: Evaluate commercial and programme impacts and launch mod.
• You remain accountable for the modification until its closure. Thus It’s incumbent on you to drumbeat multi-functional team(s) and suppliers through various milestones and deliverables, namely; Critical Design Review (CDR) + Design for manufacture (DFM). Condition of supply changes (COSCR). Creation and cascade of new parts demand + regular monitoring of parts supply.
• Help to plan/organise any production trials and/or First Implementation Checks (FIC).
• Maintain accuracy of configuration and MRP toolsets (e.g. SAP).
• Capture and document properly any lessons learnt or further work required (MOD closure).

Requirements:

• Strong project management skills/experience; PMP certification would be highly desirable.
• A general appreciation for configuration management, specifically product changes.
• An existing or previous ICC_ACP and/or ACC2 user would be beneficial.
• Experience in fields such as CA attestation (CAIR).
• Understanding of SA Wing design or manufacturing processes would also be highly desirable.
• Experience in Manufacturing Engineering, Design Engineering, Quality and/or Production are beneficial.
• An appreciation for material requirements planning would be desirable.
• Existing SAP-APD, SAP-ARP and/or AirSupply user would be beneficial.

If you are interested in applying for this position and you meet the requirements, please apply!

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