Engineering Change Coordinator

BDR Thermea Group

Job Location:

Preston - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Engineering Change Coordinator

This is a tactical handson role responsible for managing engineering and product change requests from initiation through approval and implementation. The role sits at the heart of Product Change Management (PCM) and ensures that changes are correctly defined compliant approved and executed in production with minimal disruption.

The role requires close collaboration with R&D Design Engineering Manufacturing Quality Procurement and senior decisionmakers across multiple regions.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering & Product Change Management

Own and manage Engineering Change Requests (ECRs) from initial submission through approval and implementation.
Work with engineers and stakeholders to fully understand the technical commercial and strategic rationale for change requests.
Build and present clear structured business cases for change to senior decisionmakers.
Track approved changes through implementation ensuring timelines scope and requirements are met.
Manage handovers between functions and ensure changes are embedded correctly into production.

Coordination & Project Tracking

Plan define and track key milestones for change activity.
Ensure R&D Engineering and other functions deliver their elements of the change accurately and on time.
Manage daytoday tracking of multiple changes in parallel.
Identify risks bottlenecks and dependencies early and escalate where required.

Stakeholder Management & Communication

Act as a central point of coordination between Design Engineering Procurement Manufacturing Quality and other stakeholders.
Gather and consolidate information for senior management across different functions and countries.
Communicate outcomes clearly including feeding back decisions (e.g. explaining why a request has been declined).
Chair and contribute to changerelated meetings.

Quality Compliance & Governance

Ensure all changes comply with regulatory customer quality and internal process requirements.
Work closely with Quality to support PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) activity.
Participate in DFMEA and PFMEA sessions to assess and mitigate risk.
Ensure correct generation review and approval of engineering and change documentation.
Maintain accurate records within data and change management systems (e.g. Teamcenter).

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Background (Essential)

Design / Engineering background (mechanical product or similar).
Ability to read and understand technical drawings.
Experience using CAD systems (handson usage preferred though not a core focus of the role).
Experience working in an R&D and manufacturingadjacent environment.

Manufacturing & Quality Understanding

Good understanding of manufacturing processes and production challenges enabling effective communication with production teams.
Experience working alongside Quality functions from a product perspective.
Familiarity with PPAP production readiness and product quality requirements.

Commercial & CrossFunctional Awareness

Understanding of how Procurement operates including supplierdriven changes cost reduction initiatives and strategic sourcing decisions.
Ability to balance technical quality cost and operational considerations.

Core Competencies

Strong organisation tracking and basic project management skills.
High attention to detail and process discipline.
Confident communicator capable of engaging engineers through to senior leaders.
Collaborative mindset with the ability to coordinate across multiple functions.
Comfortable working within structured processes and governance frameworks.

Systems & Tools (Desirable)

Experience using data or product lifecycle management systems (e.g. Teamcenter or similar).
Experience with formal change management or documentation systems.

We offer a competitive salary alongside 25 days holiday per annum not including UK bank holidays. We also offer a contributory pension and sick pay schemes staff discounts and more.

Does this sound like you Then we would love to hear from you!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion colour national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status or disability status.

Recruitment Agency Notice

We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for the provision of recruitment services. Only agencies on our PSL may provide CVs via our online recruitment system. We will not accept unsolicited CVs from suppliers not currently on our PSL. We explicitly reserve the right to add candidate details from unsolicited CVs from non-PSL agencies into our own candidate database and to pursue/hire such candidate(s) without any obligation financial or otherwise to the agency concerned.

At BDR Thermea Group we believe that diversity equity and inclusion (DE&I) are critical to our success. We are committed to creating a workplace where every potential future employee feels valued respected and empowered to bring their whole selves to work. Please check out our DE&I policy on our website to find out more.

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Engineering Change CoordinatorThis is a tactical handson role responsible for managing engineering and product change requests from initiation through approval and implementation. The role sits at the heart of Product Change Management (PCM) and ensures that changes are correctly defined compliant a...