Configuration Manager Job in Veghel, Netherlands

A challenging role with Vanderlande will help you to develop your career and satisfy your ambitions. We are the global leaders for value-added logistic process automation at airports and in the parcel market, as well as a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses. Our systems are operational at more than 600 airports – including 14 of the world’s top 20 – the world’s leading parcel companies, and 12 of Europe’s top 20 e-commerce companies.

Established in 1949, Vanderlande employs more than 4,500 people in more than 100 countries, all committed to moving our customers’ businesses forward. Our unique capabilities include integrating hardware, software and services into tailor-made solutions. The result is a distinctive track record in innovation, reliability and partnership. Our global presence provides an unrivalled 100 site-based teams, who ensure that our customers enjoy an optimum level of performance, 24/7.

Through building strong relationships – as well as enjoying our work and a more varied social life – the focus at Vanderlande is on the freedom to express ourselves while being trusted to deliver on every level. This is one of the key criteria on which Vanderlande has been assessed to become the number one Best Employer in The Netherlands for 2016.

If you’re ambitious and would like your career path to lead you to the fast-moving world of Vanderlande, then please contact us to set these challenges in motion.

Vanderlande – challenges in motion

Configuration Manager Job Description

Are you interested in both the (further) development of a software platform and in supporting the proper execution, storage and traceability of our client projects? Do you have project management skills as well as experience with Atlassian or similar suite(s), and do you know about getting new releases ready in time? Then apply now as a Configuration Manager at Vanderlande.

Your position
As a configuration manager, you will become ultimately responsible for the configuration of a large multidisciplinary program. The program sets up a platform from which multiple customer projects will be operated. Both the platform and the client projects are supported by the configuration manager. This support is multi-site and takes place at various locations within the international organization.Your most important tasks will be: 

• Definition:
  • Determining the structure of the multidisciplinary process in consultation with the various stakeholders within the program and the organization.
  • Cooperation with the configuration managers of the other Vanderlande platforms to ensure uniformity as much as possible.
  • Communicating way of working and methods towards the different user groups.
• Project tasks:
  • Administrating and monitoring project tasks (Jira, Bamboo, BitBucket), as well as challenging project members/teams on deadlines and quality of work.
  • Supporting engineers.
  • Setting up dashboards, trends, graphs to clarify and visualize gaps and deadlines.

Configuration Manager Job Requirements

​Your profile
To be successful in this role, you have a Bachelor or Master degree in a technical or software domain, combined with at least 5 years’ experience in (software) development roles, preferably as a configuration manager. Furthermore, you have/are:

• An independent attitude, with the ability to determine gaps and deadlines and act on them.
• Able to simultaneously support a large project and its multiple underlying stakeholders
• Strong communication skills
• Proactive mindset, foreseeing and acting on missing / delayed steps in the process. Ability to indicate consequences if steps are not implemented.

• Working experience in Atlassian tools like JIRA, Bamboo and bitbucket, as well as Artifactory, and PLM systems e.g. Dassault SmarTeam and / or Enovia 3DExperience.
• Knowledge of IBM Rational Synergy, HP Quality Center, and IBM Rational DOORS, is an additional asset.

• 27 days vacation & 13 ADV (working hours reduction) days
• Flexible working hours
• Training facilities
• Travel expenses
• Collective pension scheme and insurance facilities for healthcare, car, WGA (Return to Work Scheme for the Partially Disabled) etc.

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