Summary: The Design Release Coordinator role is a 3-6 month contract based in Castle Donington, focusing on supporting a fast-paced engineering environment by ensuring the accuracy and completeness of engineering release documentation. The position involves coordinating release packs, maintaining documentation standards, and liaising with stakeholders to enhance efficiency and governance. The role may also include additional technical responsibilities based on the candidate's experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and prepare engineering release packs, ensuring they are complete, accurate, and ready for formal review
- Maintain structured documentation, release registers, and document control standards (naming, versioning, storage)
- Liaise with stakeholders to obtain inputs, track progress, and resolve blockers
- Support release governance by preparing meeting materials, capturing actions, and maintaining audit trails
- Track actions through to closure, escalating risks and delays where required
- Ensure release readiness by validating scope, documentation accuracy, configuration ownership, and risk visibility
- Provide clear reporting on release status, risks, and overall progress
Key Skills:
- Strong organisational and coordination skills
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- Experience managing structured documentation or datasets
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Proactive, delivery-focused mindset with strong follow-through
- Experience within engineering, manufacturing, or technical environments (desirable)
- Knowledge of drawing control, configuration management, or release processes (desirable)
- Experience supporting engineering or design teams (desirable)
- Understanding of stage-gate or risk-based release processes (desirable)
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Castle Donington
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Design Release Coordinator
3-6 Month Contract outside IR35
Location: Castle Donington (Hybrid Working)
Role Overview
An exciting opportunity has become available for a Design Release Coordinator to support a fast-paced engineering environment. This role is key to ensuring engineering release documentation is accurate, structured, and fully prepared ahead of formal review.
You'll play a central role in improving efficiency, strengthening governance, and reducing administrative workload for engineering teams. There is also scope to take on more technical responsibilities depending on your experience.
Key Responsibilities -Design Release Coordinator
- Coordinate and prepare engineering release packs, ensuring they are complete, accurate, and ready for formal review
- Maintain structured documentation, release registers, and document control standards (naming, versioning, storage)
- Liaise with stakeholders to obtain inputs, track progress, and resolve blockers
- Support release governance by preparing meeting materials, capturing actions, and maintaining audit trails
- Track actions through to closure, escalating risks and delays where required
- Ensure release readiness by validating scope, documentation accuracy, configuration ownership, and risk visibility
- Provide clear reporting on release status, risks, and overall progress
Requirements - Design Release Coordinator
- Essential:
- Strong organisational and coordination skills
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- Experience managing structured documentation or datasets
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Proactive, delivery-focused mindset with strong follow-through
- Desirable:
- Experience within engineering, manufacturing, or technical environments
- Knowledge of drawing control, configuration management, or release processes
- Experience supporting engineering or design teams
- Understanding of stage-gate or risk-based release processes
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If you're highly organised, detail-driven, and looking to play a key role in improving engineering processes, apply today or get in touch for more information.
This vacancy is being advertised by Belcan