Senior E&O CM Lead — Digital Engineering & Lifecycle

Quest Oracle Community; Albuquerque (NM); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandia National Laboratories is seeking an Engineering and Operations (E&O) Systems Engineer / Configuration Management (CM) Lead to support CM activities for the 02232 ND CM Department. You will work at the systems level with ND systems teams to ensure CM requirements are implemented across the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities include defining CM policies, managing product configuration baselines, conducting audits, and driving digital engineering initiatives to strengthen the digital thread

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in systems engineering, quality management, information systems, business administration or other relevant field plus 5 years of relevant experience or equivalent.
• Experience working with technical engineering teams to meet project deliverables in configuration management, systems engineering, product lifecycle management, project management, requirements management, quality management, and digital engineering.
• Working knowledge of PDMLink and/or other equivalent configuration management IT applications.
• Experience working on nuclear deterrence (ND) programs and familiarity with enterprise partners and product development lifecycle management of ND programs.
• An active DOE Q clearance, or equivalent is required to start.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams, including engineering, project management, and test/qualification, to champion configuration management best practices, improve implementation, identify process improvements, and align efforts with project and enterprise priorities.
• Support technical teams in defining and managing product configuration, including as-designed and as-built baselines, product structures, configuration status accounting, and product and document traceability throughout the lifecycle.
• Perform administrative, physical, and functional configuration audits, and support quality assessments to ensure compliance with federal, corporate, and contractual requirements.
• Help define and document configuration management policies, processes, tools, and plans that establish a consistent framework aligned with digital engineering, continuous improvement, and enterprise objectives.
• Contribute to enterprise product data management by supporting implementation of product structures and authoritative data sources for requirements and configuration information.
• Provide guidance on configuration management and digital engineering tools, including tool use, consolidation, improvement, user acceptance testing, traceability, and data integrity across authoritative sources.
• Support the digital engineering ecosystem, ND Modernization and Sustainment programs, NA-122 NSE modernization efforts, and PRIDE objectives by driving adoption of integrated tools and model-based approaches that strengthen digital thread capabilities, support enduring data needs, and improve cross-site collaboration.
• Enable streamlined engineering authorization approaches, improve readiness for gates and reviews, and support architecture and design objectives that strengthen configuration control, collaboration, and agility for Defense Programs.
• Support the transition from document-based, human-targeted artifacts to model-based artifacts that improve integration, automation, transparency, and mission execution.

Skills

Configuration management

Systems engineering

Product lifecycle management

Project management

Requirements management

Quality management

Digital engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in systems engineering, quality management, information systems, business administration or other relevant field

Tools

PDMLink

Configuration management tools

Job description

Sandia National Laboratories is seeking an Engineering and Operations (E&O) Systems Engineer / Configuration Management (CM) Lead to support CM activities for the 02232 ND CM Department. You will work at the systems level with ND systems teams to ensure CM requirements are implemented across the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities include defining CM policies, managing product configuration baselines, conducting audits, and driving digital engineering initiatives to strengthen the digital thread