Configuration Manager, Senior

Torch Technologies; Kettering (OH); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Torch Technologies in OH is seeking a Senior Configuration Manager to support the DMSI program. The role focuses on configuring and controlling software and system documentation, labor data, and audits to maintain baseline integrity.

The candidate will work with PMs, system engineers, and QA to ensure proper configuration control across the lifecycle. Responsibilities include CM planning, artifact control, change control board participation, and supporting major audits to verify conformance with

Qualifications

• Experience in configuration management practices and standards.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking abilities.
• Experience with technical writing and documentation.
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide and maintain CM of all relevant system artifacts (documentation, source code, build files, scripts) to enable government ownership of baseline.
• Archive acquisition documentation and review CM data deliveries for accuracy and completeness.
• Maintain CM files including change control and status accounting records.
• Implement CM plans and participate in cross-functional change control boards (CCB, FRB, RRB).
• Record and manage meeting minutes and action items; track status of deliverables.
• Support audits such as Physical and Functional Configuration Audits; ensure conformance to CDRL requirements.
• Assist Government with configuration control for ERP and IT systems; maintain related documentation.

Job description

Torch Technologies

Thank you for your interest in employment with Torch Technologies. We are a 100% employee-owned, Certified Great Place To Work and named Best Places to Work in Huntsville/Madison County, headquartered in Huntsville, AL. Our team provides superior research, development, and engineering services to the Federal Government and Department of War. As one of the nation's top 100 defense companies, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country. Our corporate mission sums up the pride our employee-owners take in the work we do: "Lighting the Pathway of Freedom". And, as a Certified Evergreen ESOP, we have made the commitment to grow and sustain our company for the next 100 years! Come grow with us!

Torch Technologies has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Configuration Manager located in Kettering, OH (Dayton, WPAFB) to support our EPASS GB contract. As part of the AFLCMC/GB Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate, the Depot Maintenance Systems Integration (DMSI) Program is made up of six software applications integrated by a consolidated database. DMSI manages programmed and un-programmed repair, upgrade, or modification of major weapon systems. It identifies materials for pre-positioning and initiates cost-control measures for material usage. It establishes and maintains labor standards for planning and pricing. It supports depot capacity simulations to determine capability for surge planning and normal operation tempos. DMSI assigns item-tracking numbers to all parts and tracks through disassembly, repair, and assembly activities. It provides the capability to plan, induct workload, control inventory, and track repair operations to completion. It documents standard labor hours earned by depot level maintenance activities. DMSI provides command-level data for mission capability assessments by the Air Force Materiel Command.

The Configuration Manager will provide support ranging across the Configuration Management (CM), Quality Assurance (QA), Program Planning (PP), Risk Management (RM), and System Engineering (SE) activities which will vary depending upon the current activities of the program/system, scope of the current development/sustainment cycle, and other corporate and program initiatives. The contractor shall provide resources with progressive experience in technical writing, critical thinking and analysis, managing configuration of software, engineering documents, design drawings, engineering changes and notices, and planning/conducting design audits to enable government ownership of the program technical baseline. The contractor shall provide skills and experience necessary to perform the following tasks:

• Provide and maintain CM of all relevant system artifacts, e.g., documentation, source code, build files, scripts, etc., to allow the government the capability to build and release a working copy of the system to the appropriate production environment;
• Archive acquisition documentation;
• Review and evaluate the Development/Sustainment Contractor's CM program and data deliveries for accuracy, completeness, and compliance;
• Maintain CM files including configuration identification, change control, and status accounting records;
• Implement CM plans;
• Participate in cross-functional change control boards meetings such as, but not limited to, Configuration Control Board (CCB), Change Control Board (CCB), Functional Review Board (FRB), Requirements Review Board (RRB), etc., to record and manage proposed and approved changes;
• Review the change control boards' membership list for currency and completeness;
• Support Engineering Assessments;
• Prepare for, conduct, and/or support major audits such as Physical Configuration Audits (PCAs) and Functional Configuration Audits (FCAs);
• Record and maintain assessment and audit findings, minutes, and action items;
• Report the Development/Sustainment Contractor's required software delivery status;
• Support pre- and post-contract award data reviews via meeting attendance and capturing meeting minutes;
• Review and evaluate the Development/Sustainment Contractor's conformance to CDRL requirements;
• Manage Government and Development/Sustainment Contractor correspondence
• Support the establishment of work flows;
• Ensure configuration items are properly identified and documentation is accomplished;
• Track configuration item deliverables and responses;
• Support development/sustainment of paper and automated archival systems of all covered documentation;
• Work closely with program management, systems engineers, quality managers, draftsmen and design/manufacturing engineers in an integrated product team environment;
• Develop and administer configuration management plans;
• Maintain design traceability and integrity;
• Convene and manage change control boards;
• Assist the Government with configuration control for ERP and IT systems. This shall include configuration planning, maintenance of configuration documentation and data, and maintaining i