Control Manager

Overview

Date Posted:

Country:
United Kingdom

Location:

Near Reading

Position Role Type:
Unspecified

Delta Change Control Manager — Primarily home-based but prepared to travel to support internal and customer meetings. Contract, Permanent Full time (37 hours).

Raytheon UK — At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence. Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do.

Together, we are not just advancing technology; we re building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.

Project Delta is seeking a Change Control Manager as part of a programme engineering team to undertake activities within a major and complex training project. The Change Control Manager will be responsible for the multi-organisation Change Control on behalf of the Chief Engineer and run top-down and bottom-up impact assessments spanning the company, suppliers, and the customer—keeping baselines and baseline sets accurate, auditable, and aligned to delivery.

• Leadership of all Change Control Management processes on the project to ensure change compliance. This includes the change planning, identification, impact analysis, control, status accounting and auditing for development and operational systems.
• Responsible for and lead end-to-end change flow, from screening, impact assessments, disposition (approve/reject/defer), implementation, verification and closure.
• Define and administer dual-angle impact assessments for every change, from top-down: capability, mission, safety/security, operational readiness, customer benefits/risks, to bottom-up: configured items (hardware/software), Bill of Materials (BOM)/Product Breakdown Structures (PBS)/Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Requirements, Interfaces/Interface Control Documents (ICD), Data & Documents, Validation & Verification (V&V), Integrated Logistics Support (ILS)/support, training and courseware.
• Quantify impacts of change on cost, schedule, performance and risk with input from the wider organisation.
• Publish decisions, actions and metrics on change.
• Responsible for the definition and maintenance of baseline sets, working with owners to identify and control baselines across the development cycle including: requirements, design, build, V&V, training, data and ILS baselines.
• Maintain an effective baseline update schedule aligned to the ITS Delivery Plan.
• Ensure every approved change updates the correct baseline(s) and dependent baseline sets with closed-loop verification.
• Integrate change and baseline decisions into SRR/PDR/CDR/TRR/FAT/SAT/UAT/Handover with explicit entry/exit criteria and adoption sign-offs.
• Synchronise releases with Engineering, Software, Courseware and Media, Safety/Security, ILS and Operations.
• Run supplier–customer impact workshops; maintain auditable RAIDO, decisions, minutes and actions.
• Deliver clear exec reporting (readiness, adoption, benefits, risk), and lead change champion/coach networks.
• Translate change impacts into role-based learning (courses, micro-learning, simulations, job aids) and update the Training Baseline.
• Use PLM/ALM and analytics (e.g. DOORS, Teamcenter, Windchill, JIRA, Power BI) to drive evidence-based decisions.
• Capture lessons learned and embed change into BAU support and service models.
• Synchronise releases with Courseware and Media.
• Be responsible for championing and fostering a culture of Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) compliance and continuous improvement.
• Any other duties required to meet the needs of the programme.

Skills and Experience

• Track record (5+ years) delivering change in complex engineering/training environments and chairing CCB/CRB on multi-supplier programmes.
• Strong configuration management grounding (e.g., ISO 10007, EIA-649, Def Stan 05-57) and practical…