Configuration & Data Manager

Trinzic; Beavercreek (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Trinzic at WPAFB is seeking a Configuration & Data Manager to lead CM/DM activities across acquisition development, production and sustainment. You will ensure configuration planning, identification, change control, verification, audit, status accounting and data management for complex programs.

The role requires 8+ years CM/DM, TS/SCI clearance, and collaboration with prime contractors to implement Air Force–aligned processes.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years of Configuration and Data Management experience.
• Active TS/SCI Clearance.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and training skills.
• Familiar with SAE EIA-649C and DoD CM/DM standards.
• Experience with MS Office, SharePoint, and JIRA.

Responsibilities

• Support CM/DM activities across acquisition, development, production, and sustainment.
• Collaborate with prime contractors to ensure CM/DM methods are applied.
• Provide guidance to meet mission requirements.
• Maintain product configuration data across lifecycle.
• Plan Functional and Physical Configuration Audits (FCAs/PCAs).
• Assist in managing CDRLs and related change notices.
• Review system and product specifications for hardware and software.

Skills

CM/DM expertise

TS/SCI clearance

Strong communication

Process development

Technical leadership

Tools

JIRA

SharePoint

Microsoft Office

Job description

Title:

Configuration & Data Manager

At KBR, we deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 37,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 85 countries and operations in over 28 countries. KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results.

Trinzic is the future independent company to be created through the planned spin-off of KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business, expected in January 2027. Our people work at the frontier of what is possible, delivering solutions in challenging environments and advancing some of the world's highest-priority national security and space missions.

Backed by decades of mission success, deep expertise, and trusted partnerships, Trinzic will launch as a global organization with more than 18,000 employees supporting customers around the world. Join us at a defining moment and help shape the future of a company built to tackle complex challenges and make a meaningful impact.

Candidates who join KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business before the spin-off will transition to Trinzic when the separation is complete and will not need to reapply for employment.

Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR!

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

Position Summary:
This position in the AFLCMC/WAC program office at WPAFB requires skills in Configuration and Data Management (C/DM) discipline areas including Configuration Planning, Identification, Change Management, Verification and Audit, Status Accounting, and Data/Technical Content Management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the C/DM activities within acquisition development, production, and sustainment phases in support of Systems Engineering processes. Activities will include Configuration Management, Data Management, Technical Order Management, Engineering Data Management, and Deficiency Reporting.
• Work collaboratively with prime contractors to ensure contractor C/DM methods are accomplished appropriately.
• Provide functional expertise and guidance to meet organizational goals and mission requirements.
• Establish and maintain consistency of a product’s performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life.
• Analyze the impacts of the configuration management change process on lifecycle sustainment.
• Assist in the development and management of all Contract Data Requirement List (CDRL) requirements.
• Plan/implement Functional Configuration Audits (FCAs) and Physical Configuration Audits (PCAs) and confirm the adequacy of data used to support these audits.
• Support the configuration control function, to include receipt, dissemination, processing, tracking, and final disposition of Advanced Change Study Notices (ACSNs), Engineering Change Proposals (ECP), Contract Change Proposals (CCP), Requests for Deviation/Waiver (RFD/RFW), and Deficiency Reports (DRs).
• Review program-unique specifications to include system specifications, development specifications, and product specifications for both hardware and software, for proper format, content, and compliance with program requirements.

Work Environment:

• Location: Onsite (WPAFB)
• Travel Requirements: Minimal
• Working Hours: Standard

Qualifications:

Required:

• Minimum 8+ years of Configuration and Data Management experience.
• Active TS/SCI Clearance.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and training skills; initiative; and ability to create CMDM and Technical Order processes in line with Air Force and AFLCMC instructions, guidelines and processes.
• Familiar with industry standard SAE EIA-649C, its defense supplement EIA-649-1A, and applicable military and industry standards and handbooks.
• Extensive knowledge of government policies, directives, standards, handbooks, and pamphlets as well as DoD adopted industry standards relating to CM/DM.
• Demonstrated knowledge of CM/DM input requirements for program plans and SOWs, PWSs, CDRLs, Section L-Instructions to Offerors, and Section M-Basis for Award for RFPs, Military Standards (MILS) and Change Letters.
• Experience with Microsoft Office, SharePoint, and JIRA.

Desired:

• Experience in a SAP environment within the last 5 years is highly preferred.

KBR Benefits
KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR
At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.