Staff Configuration Management Specialist
$140,000–$160,000 year
On-siteSan Diego, California, United States
Job Summary
Own the end-to-end engineering change process, including ECR authoring, CCB disposition, release, and closure verification, while defining and maintaining the product variant structure for modular aircraft families. Establish baselines across the digital thread from requirements through as-built records for the Tempest, Hurricane, and El Niño platforms, controlling part numbering, revision, and effectivity conventions. Reconcile configuration deltas between builds, perform inventory disposition analysis, and administer PLM and CAD data management environments including Arena, SolidWorks, and potential Teamcenter migration. Extend configuration control to additively manufactured articles and manage serialization and as-built record capture across prototype and production builds. Chair the Change Control Board, prepare configuration data packages for design gates, and partner with supply chain to ensure changes land with correct effectivity. Report on change health metrics to continuously improve the process while ensuring compliance with AS9100, ITAR, and DoD requirements.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- U.S. Citizenship required due to ITAR regulations
- 7+ years of configuration management, product data management, or engineering release experience in a hardware environment with real rigor (aerospace, defense, automotive, medical device, or similar)
- Demonstrated hands-on ownership of a formal change control process: ECR/ECO authoring, CCB facilitation, engineering release, and effectivity setting
- Working fluency with a PLM system (Arena, Teamcenter, Windchill, ENOVIA, Duro, or similar) and with CAD data management practices
- Strong command of EBOM and MBOM structures, indented BOMs, part numbering schemes, and revision control — including where the engineering and manufacturing views legitimately diverge
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Demonstrated history of holding yourself and your teammates to a high standard, even when it creates discomfort
- Ability to work from incomplete information, chase down the missing decision, and drive it to closure rather than waiting for someone else to
- Strong written communication
- Comfort working cross-functionally with design engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain, including telling a program that a change is not ready to release
- Experience managing configuration for a modular or variant-heavy product line (superset/150% BOMs, option and variant dictionaries, product configurators, effectivity rules)
- Experience with UAS, aircraft, or other systems under airworthiness, type design, or safety-of-flight control
- Experience supporting a company through the transition from prototype and pilot builds into rate production
- Familiarity with EIA-649, MIL-STD-31000 and technical data package delivery, AS9100, or DoD configuration management and CDRL requirements
- Experience treating additive manufacturing build files, print parameters, and material specifications as controlled configuration items
- Experience administering, implementing, or migrating a PLM system, including data cleanup and user training
- Experience integrating PLM with ERP/MRP for BOM sync, effectivity, and inventory disposition
- Scripting or data analysis ability (Python, SQL, Excel/Power Query) for BOM comparison, audits, and change reporting
- Background that includes both startup and scale-stage product development
- Experience coordinating configuration baselines with external development partners, subcontractors, or government customers
- Experience managing software and firmware release baselines alongside hardware configuration
- Experience supporting field deployments, depot, or sustainment activities and reconciling field configuration records
- CMPIC, NDIA, or equivalent configuration management certification
Desired Qualifications
- Experience managing configuration for a modular or variant-heavy product line (superset/150% BOMs, option and variant dictionaries, product configurators, effectivity rules)
- Experience with UAS, aircraft, or other systems under airworthiness, type design, or safety-of-flight control
- Experience supporting a company through the transition from prototype and pilot builds into rate production
- Familiarity with EIA-649, MIL-STD-31000 and technical data package delivery, AS9100, or DoD configuration management and CDRL requirements
- Experience treating additive manufacturing build files, print parameters, and material specifications as controlled configuration items
- Experience administering, implementing, or migrating a PLM system, including data cleanup and user training
- Experience integrating PLM with ERP/MRP for BOM sync, effectivity, and inventory disposition
- Scripting or data analysis ability (Python, SQL, Excel/Power Query) for BOM comparison, audits, and change reporting
- Background that includes both startup and scale-stage product development
- Experience coordinating configuration baselines with external development partners, subcontractors, or government customers
- Experience managing software and firmware release baselines alongside hardware configuration
- Experience supporting field deployments, depot, or sustainment activities and reconciling field configuration records
- CMPIC, NDIA, or equivalent configuration management certification
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