Configuration Lead Design & Engineering

Configuration Lead Design & Engineering Nearfield Instruments Design Rotterdam, Netherlands Posted on Jun 10, 2026 Job description As Configuration Lead, you are the central owner of product configuration integrity across the full lifecycle of our semiconductor equipment. You bridge engineering, manufacturing, and service by ensuring that every product variant is defined, controlled, and traceable, from concept through customer delivery and field operation. You are a change driver: you don't just administer processes, you improve them. You lead a team of engineers responsible for configuration management, engineering practices, PLM engineering data management. You will work on highly complex, precision instruments where configuration errors have real consequences, for yield, for safety, and for customer uptime. You'll have the mandate to mature our configuration practices as we scale, and direct access to the engineers and leaders who make product decisions. This is a role for someone who cares deeply about getting it right, and who can bring others along on that mission. What you'll do Team Leadership & Development - Lead, coach, and develop a team of configuration engineers and specialists, fostering a high-performance culture focused on quality, ownership, and continuous improvement - Set clear objectives, priorities, and development plans; conduct regular performance reviews and provide ongoing feedback - Build and scale the team in line with organizational growth, ensuring the right capabilities and capacity are in place Configuration Management - Own and maintain the configuration baseline for all assemblies, subassemblies, and top-level product structures - Define and enforce configuration identification, control, status accounting, and auditing (CMII/EIA-649 principles) - Ensure that as-designed, as-built, and as-maintained configurations are consistent and fully traceable - Manage product variants and opti...