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Product Configuration & Engineering Release Specialist
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Engineering Release Specialist – Product Configuration & PLM
Gaydon | Hybrid | 12-Month Contract | £220 per day
We’re recruiting for an Engineering Release Specialist to join an automotive Release Operations team, supporting the construction, configuration and release of Bills of Material across vehicle programmes.
This isn't a traditional BOM administration role.
The role is heavily focused on product configuration, part-number logic and complex problem solving. You’ll be responsible for understanding which parts and commodities apply to different vehicle specifications, configurations and markets, ensuring accurate information is released from Engineering and flows correctly downstream into Manufacturing.
You'll become the specialist for a particular area of the vehicle, working closely with Product Engineering to resolve configuration issues and ensure vehicles can be scheduled and built correctly.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Construct, configure, validate and release Bills of Material across vehicle programmes.
- Understand part-number usage and configuration logic, ensuring the correct parts are applied to the correct product specifications.
- Analyse complex product structures and identify incorrect, missing or conflicting configuration information.
- Work directly with Engineering teams to investigate and resolve part and configuration issues.
- Interpret engineering information and translate it into accurate BOM structures for downstream use.
- Act as a key point of contact for Engineering and Manufacturing stakeholders at commodity level.
- Support early BOM creation, file setup and validation activities.
- Manage multiple releases and priorities against key vehicle programme milestones.
- Help improve configuration and release processes across the team.
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What We’re Looking For
We're interested in people from automotive, engineering or complex manufacturing environments who have experience with:
- Product or engineering configuration.
- BOMs, product structures or engineering release.
- Part numbers, part usage and component configuration.
- Understanding how different product specifications or variants affect component selection.
- Investigating and solving complex product/BOM issues.
- Working directly with Engineering and Manufacturing stakeholders.
- PLM or product data management systems.
- Managing multiple priorities within a deadline-driven environment.
- Excel and data analysis.
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Previous automotive experience would be advantageous, but we're also interested in candidates from other complex configurable product environments who can demonstrate strong configuration and engineering problem-solving experience.
The Opportunity
This is a role where the accuracy of your work has a direct impact on manufacturing and build quality.
You'll be working at the link between Product Engineering and Manufacturing, taking complex engineering and configuration information and ensuring the correct product definition moves downstream into the plants.
If you've worked in product configuration, PLM, engineering release or BOM management and understand the logic behind how parts and product configurations fit together, we'd be interested in speaking with you.
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