Principal Engineer Equipment Governance

As a Principal Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Working collaboratively with MoD Defence Equipment and Support teams, these roles will drive the Configuration Management Committees which provide awareness of configuration change across all the Army's platforms and equipment. Having the awareness will help the Business to prepare for change and provide efficiencies in our management of spares, engineering material and technical information by being prepared for the change once it is implemented.

Day-to-day, you'll responsible for leading Configuration Management across the Heavy platform fleet and equipment and provide oversight to the Defence Support Group (DSG) Chief Engineer on the Governance (people, processes, and tools) associated with the Heavy platforms and equipment.

• Chair the Heavy platform customer Configuration Management Committee (CMC).


• Manage the coordination of the Heavy CMC.


• Ensure the information gleaned from the customer Heavy CMCs is translated into actions and communicated to internal stakeholders with appropriate action tracker.


• Hold internal Heavy CMCs to track actions prior to next customer CMC.


• Communicate to the Engineering team any opportunities that can be realised through the introduction of improved processes and techniques from the Heavy CMCs.


• Work with Engineering and Quality Stakeholders to ensure the processes and procedures are consistent and aligned to the Through Life Equipment Support (TLES) Quality Management System (QMS).


This role is full time, 37 hours per week and can be based on site at Andover, Bristol, Bovington, Donnington or Warminster.


• Charted Engineer or close to be recognised as CEng


• Member of a professional Engineering Body


• Awareness of Land military vehicle and equipment


• Awareness of Quality Management Systems


• Awareness in the use of Engineering drawing packages


• Competent PC user (MS Office, MS Outlook, SharePoint, ERP system)


Qualifications for the Principal Engineer:

• Engineering degree or equivalent


• Certified Engineer


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What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance


• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance


• Employee share scheme


• Employee shopping savings portal


• Payment of Professional Fees


• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave


• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement


• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity


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