Configuration Management & Requirements Specialist

PURVIS; Newport (RI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

PURVIS Systems is seeking a Management Specialist to support a large-scale U.S. Navy product development program by providing CM and requirements management across the lifecycle.

Join a collaborative team that values problem solving, and growth into independent technical responsibilities with engineering reviews and data governance. The role emphasizes maintaining baselines, supporting change activities, and ensuring traceability between system requirements and technical data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Experience using Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Ability to read engineering drawings and technical documentation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with CMPro.
• Experience supporting Navy or DoD engineering programs, preferred.
• Experience with configuration management principles, preferred.
• Experience working with relational databases or VBA/macros.

Responsibilities

• Support CM activities by researching and maintaining configuration-controlled data within CMPro, including drawings, parts lists, technical documentation, and product baselines.
• Maintain requirements within the software management systems by creating, updating, organizing, and tracing system, subsystem, and software requirements while ensuring complete end-to-end traceability.
• Conduct configuration and requirements research to support engineering change proposals (ECPs), MBPS/PDM initiatives, technical reviews, and engineering decision-making by providing accurate technical data and reports.
• Partner with Systems Engineers and Configuration Managers to maintain technical baselines, support engineering change activities, and ensure accurate traceability between system requirements and configuration-controlled technical data.
• Generate reports, traceability matrices, and configuration documentation to support design reviews, audits, testing activities, and customer deliverables.
• Collaborate with Configuration Management, Systems Engineering and project stakeholders by participating in technical meetings, tracking action items, resolving configuration and requirements discrepancies, and supporting continuous process improvement.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Excellent written and verbal comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical discipline

Tools

CMPro

Excel

Relational databases

VBA/macros

Job description

PURVIS Systems is seeking a Management Specialist to support a large-scale U.S. Navy product development program by providing CM and requirements management across the lifecycle.

Join a collaborative team that values problem solving, and growth into independent technical responsibilities with engineering reviews and data governance. The role emphasizes maintaining baselines, supporting change activities, and ensuring traceability between system requirements and technical data.