Configuration Controller

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 7 May 2026
LOCATION
Hinkley Point
TYPE
Contract
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Engineering
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SKILLS

Configuration Management Engineering Documentation Change Management Redline Drawings Technical Documentation Project Coordination Problem Solving Attention to Detail

FULL DESCRIPTION

Configuration Controller

Location: Hinkley Point, Somerset

Salary: £190 - £210 per day

Job Type: Contract (Up to Dec 2026)

Start Date: Immediate

Job Description

The Configuration Controller plays a critical role in managing and maintaining configuration across the Civil Works scope, ensuring that all technical documentation and project deliverables remain accurate, consistent, and compliant with established processes and regulatory requirements. As a Configuration Controller, you will play a key role in maintaining and managing the site's configuration, ensuring alignment with established management processes within your designated area, while acting as the go-to point of contact for configuration-related queries to help streamline the construction phase. Working closely with cross-functional teams, the role is responsible for controlling both proposed and implemented modifications, aligning them with the overall project configuration and supporting the integrity of a highly complex programme. Through strong organisational skills and a proactive approach to problem-solving, the Configuration Controller ensures adherence to procedures and safety standards, contributing essential input to the safety case and supporting the successful delivery of a safe and operable site.

Skills & Experience Required

  • A degree/HNC/HND in a relevant science or engineering field, or a strong technical background.
  • Experience managing engineering documentation like Redline Drawings and Work Pack management.
  • Knowledge of Configuration.
  • Familiarity with change management processes and requests.
  • Excellent organisational skills with ability to manage multiple tasks concurrently.
  • Strong communication skills, able to clearly present discrepancies found to wide reaching MDT members for resolution.
  • Proactive problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently.
  • Strong numerical and analytical abilities with meticulous attention to detail.

Role Information

  • Keeping the List of Applicable Documents up to date for your assigned area.
  • Processing construction change requests, to ensure the sequential update of the configuration.
  • Managing the site cascade of the design change process into the construction configuration.
  • Serving as the primary contact for your area on behalf of the project during HPC's construction phase.
  • Running data checks across your scope, investigating discrepancies with numerous project stakeholders, then leading the appropriate resolution of each topic and tracking the necessary implementation routes to establish a compliant position.
  • Managing interfaces between work packages on the permanent works to ensure smooth coordination.
  • Identify and develop opportunities to streamline the configuration management processes and procedures on the Civil Works scope, and wider project as necessary.

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