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Principal Configuration Management Engineer
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Principal Configuration Management Engineer
SECURITY CLEARANCE: You will be subject to BPSS and Export Control checks (including a criminal record check)
LOCATION: Belfast
GRADE: B6
TYPE: Full time
What's in it for you
Financial Reward
- Competitive salary
- Annual profit share
- Contributory pension
- Share options
Work / Life Balance
- 36 hour week
- Flexible working around core hours
- Friday afternoons off
- Flexible working
About the Role
Elevate your engineering career at Airbus Belfast as a Principal Configuration Management Engineer, supporting our cutting-edge A220 wing programs. In this pivotal role, you will guide a dedicated team through the entire product lifecycle, driving seamless configuration control, leading complex engineering change management, and integrating advanced aerospace toolsets like SAP. This is a unique opportunity to champion best practices, shape critical manufacturing deliverables, and directly ensure the on-time delivery of world-class aircraft.
How You Will Contribute to the Team
You will act as a CM pillar team lead within the Airbus Belfast engineering organization, which may consist of:
- Engineering change control planning and management
- Configuration identification and control
- Status accounting, Verification and Audit to ensure seamless configuration control through the entire life cycle.
- Manage Engineering Change Process, Configuration Management or Nomenclature activities, securing stakeholder alignment and approvals and acting as the focal point for A220 Program CM integration within your discipline.
- Support and on occasion stand in for the CM manager to address priority meetings & Tasks
- Manage team priorities as directed to ensure there is no risk to aircraft delivery schedules.
- Partner closely with Program and manufacturing teams to achieve deadlines.
- Anticipate challenges and communicate risks/ opportunities transparently to Stakeholders.
- Implement effective corrective action and preventative measures.
- Compile and check deliverables generated by your discipline for Wing level and Tier 1 suppliers.
- Champion best practice, lessons learned and the integration of advanced tools like SAP into the operations environment.
- Develop team members through knowledge sharing and removal of single points of failure.
About You
It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that sufficient detail is provided to demonstrate how they meet essential job criteria, as this alone will be used for vetting purposes.
Essential
- Be degree qualified (BSc/BEng) and have at least 3 years’ relevant Engineering experience OR Have a HNC/HND in a relevant engineering discipline and have at least 5 years’ relevant Engineering experience.
- CM Expertise: Strong end-to-end understanding and full lifecycle experience of technical and engineering change management processes.
- Technical leadership skills with Project Management experience and track record of successfully delivering CM solutions.
- Excellent stakeholder management and the ability to provide clarity and present to cross functional multi-level audiences.
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Desirable
- Previous experience working in the Aerospace industry
- Toolset Knowledge (Preferred – Training Provided): Familiarity with aerospace toolsets such as:
- Catia/Enovia
- Optegra/ PDM
- MAXIM, CAPP (or other ERP systems)
- SAP (S4/HANA)
- Project Management tools (Microsoft Project, Access, Planisware etc…)
- Opentext
Closing date
23rd October 2026
Please note that meeting the mandatory criteria listed above guarantees consideration for the role, but does not ensure progression to the interview stage. In the event of a high volume of qualified applications, the selection panel reserves the right to shortlist and progress candidates who additionally meet one or more of the preferential (desirable) criteria.
About Us
Join Airbus Belfast - Pioneering Sustainable Aerospace for a Safe and United World
As a premier centre of excellence for advanced aerostructures, our Belfast team drives the complete wing lifecycle - from concept design to in-service support - for the world’s leading aerospace manufacturer. To support major multi-million-pound site investments and expanding operations, we are recruiting talented engineers to scale world-class aerospace innovation into the future.
What We Do
- Global A220 Wing Nerve Centre: Our specialist engineering teams drive the continuous design and technical development of the advanced composite A220 wing. With over 1,100 firm orders from 30+ global customers and 500+ aircraft flying across 25 international operators, Belfast is accelerating production ramp-ups to meet record global demand. By leveraging cutting-edge digital tools, advanced composite materials and automated manufacturing processes, our engineers are actively advancing performance, passenger experience and structural capabilities for the world's most popular single-aisle aircraft in its class.
- Iconic Commercial Programmes: Our expertise spans the entire Airbus commercial family, delivering critical innovations from the record-breaking A350-1000 fuel tank integration that enabled the longest flight in history, to the primary structural backbone for the A350F- the world’s most eco-efficient cargo aircraft.
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How We Can Support You
Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you need and we’ll always do our best to accommodate your request.
Please let us know if you need us to make any adjustments for the selection process – you can share this with your Talent Acquisition Partner if you are invited to interview. Examples may include (but not exclusive to) accessible facilities; auxiliary aids; room layout, etc. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.
As a Disability Confident Employer, Airbus UK will offer an interview to any applicant that considers themselves to have a disability or long-term condition under the Equality Act 2010 and meets the minimum criteria of the role (as set out in the job advert). To ‘opt in’, just select the option during your application submission and your application will be considered accordingly.
Company: Airbus Belfast Limited
Employment Type: Permanent
Experience Level: Professional
Job Family: Configuration Management
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