Senior Configuration Manager – Aerospace/Defense

Zone5Technologies; San Luis Obispo (CA); On-site; USD 103,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive total compensation

Medical, dental, vision, life

401k with company-match

Paid time off

Sick time

Holidays

Job summary

Zone 5 Technologies is seeking a Senior Configuration Management Specialist (Level III) to independently execute and coordinate CM across programs, products, and lifecycle phases, aligning with enterprise CM governance.

You will partner with Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Software, Systems Engineering, and Program Management to maintain configuration integrity from concept through production and sustainment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field with at least five years in configuration management.
• Experience in identification, change control, status accounting, and baseline management.
• Experience supporting complex hardware/software in aerospace/defense or regulated environments.
• Knowledge of drawings, BOMs, revision control, serialization, and lifecycle records.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day configuration management execution for assigned programs, products, and projects while ensuring alignment with enterprise policies, program plans, contracts, and applicable industry requirements.
• Develop and maintain program configuration management plans, procedures, work instructions, checklists, and lifecycle records under enterprise CM governance.
• Establish, document, and maintain configuration identification and product structures for hardware, software, firmware, documentation, interfaces, and technical data.
• Coordinate functional, allocated, product, production, as-built, as-tested, and as-maintained baseline activities as required by the program lifecycle and contract.
• Support and facilitate Configuration Control Boards (CCBs) and Software Configuration Control Boards (SCCBs), including agenda preparation, change-package readiness, stakeholder coordination, decision records, and action tracking.
• Review engineering change requests, engineering change orders, deviations, waivers, problem reports, and related change documentation for completeness, traceability, classification, effectivity, and implementation planning.
• Maintain configuration status accounting for approved changes, baselines, releases, effectivity, serial applicability, open actions, implementation status, and technical data deliveries.
• Verify that approved changes are fully implemented across affected drawings, specifications, bills of material, work instructions, software repositories, test artifacts, planning records, and downstream business systems.
• Help maintain alignment among requirements, design data, EBOMs, MBOMs, SBOMs, ERP/MRP, MES, QMS, PDM/PLM, and software-development repositories to strengthen the digital thread.
• Perform release-readiness and baseline-completeness reviews before production, test, delivery, or major technical milestones.
• Support functional and physical configuration audits, production readiness reviews, first article activities, customer reviews, and internal or external compliance assessments.
• Identify and resolve configuration discrepancies involving engineering data, manufacturing planning, software versions, effectivity, serialized product records, and as-built documentation.
• Coordinate configuration records and technical data packages required for customer delivery, contractual reporting, audit readiness, and product acceptance.
• Contribute configuration management scope, assumptions, schedules, risks, deliverables, and basis-of-estimate inputs to proposals and program planning activities.
• Develop program-level metrics and concise status reports covering change throughput, aging actions, baseline health, release readiness, implementation completion, and emerging CM risks.
• Provide practical CM guidance and training to cross-functional stakeholders and mentor junior CM personnel in established processes and tools.
• Collaborate across operating sites to promote consistent execution while addressing local program and production needs.

Skills

Configuration management

Change control

Status accounting

Baseline management

Release management

Implementation verification

Configuration audits

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Job description

Zone 5 Technologies is seeking a Senior Configuration Management Specialist (Level III) to independently execute and coordinate CM across programs, products, and lifecycle phases, aligning with enterprise CM governance.

You will partner with Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Software, Systems Engineering, and Program Management to maintain configuration integrity from concept through production and sustainment.