Senior Specialist, Configuration Management

The Configuration Management team is responsible for ensuring that Company products are identified to a baseline design configuration and changes are controlled and accounted for in accordance with contractual requirements and Company policies and procedures. The analyst interprets contractual requirements for Configuration Management to ensure compliance. They coordinate activities within the Configuration Change Board (CCB) to establish the effectivity of engineering design changes and ensure proper impact assessments are conducted.

This role plans and coordinates preparation of project documentation such as engineering drawings, product specifications, and contract modifications to ensure customer contract requirements are met. They prepare configuration management plans to encompass contractual requirements; review contracts and determine configuration requirements; participate and provide support to program and design reviews, and configuration change board meetings; conduct/participate in functional configuration and physical configuration audits; prepare and coordinate the submission of complete technical content of Engineering Change Proposals; may create, check and maintain design disclosure documentation for engineering designs; may prepare design layouts and/or preliminary conceptual design layouts; and may check engineering drawings and designs for compliance and conformity to established design/drafting practices, specifications and design directives.

Essential Functions:

Under general direction, the Senior Specialist determines approaches to objectives demonstrating a complete understanding and application of principles, concepts, and practices.

• Provides imaginative, thorough, and practicable solutions to a wide range of technical problems involving the conventional utilization of configuration management techniques
• Conceives and plans projects involving the development of new methods to attain objectives
• Processes and controls the changes made to all design disclosures including drawings, specifications, company standards and client documentation
• Coordinates and participates in physical and functional configuration audits with functional organizations
• Provides data in support of contract data requirements list (CDRL) submissions
• Prepares configuration management plans conforming to contract requirements
• Participates in preliminary and critical design reviews, data reviews and product reviews, recommending and initiating changes if necessary
• Prepares and maintains configuration accounting reports that are required in contracts and/or company policies
• Keeps current within area of specialty in support of project assignments
• Participates as a member of various project teams and committees
• May have configuration management responsibilities for one or more programs of varying complexity
• May provide technical guidance to less senior configuration management analysts and to design staff

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 years of previous experience in engineering configuration management
  • Degree(s) will be considered in lieu of total professional experience
• PLM experience (Windchill heavily preferred)
• CPM, CM2, or similar certification

Ability to:

• Use troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Use appropriate interpersonal style and approach to ensure team cohesiveness and cooperation
• Communicate effectively orally and in writing technical terminology into a language understandable to employees, management and customers
• Prepare contractually required data submittals
• Read and interpret drawings, blueprints and related specifications
• Write clearly and concisely
• Conduct studies and research
• Prepare, coordinate and submit complete technical content of Engineering Change Proposals
• Work in a team-based environment consisting of organizational and outside customer contacts to meet project goals
• Analyze, evaluate and integrate business processes and procedures
• Utilize time management skills and multi-tasking capabilities
• Work independently within established guidelines
• Handle confidential information

Preferred Additional Skills:

Knowledge of:

• Applicable codes, regulations and specifications; industry standards for Configuration Management; and applicable customer requirements
• Product Lifecycle Management tools
• Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools
• Use of computer systems to produce data, analysis and reports and applicable software programs
• Contract Deliverable Data Practices
• Design practices, manufacturing techniques and inspection requirements
• Principles of business system analysis, including the analysis of procedures, equipment and methods
• Principles and practices of producing effective project documentation, including business functions, technical systems and processes
• Customers’ current business processes
• Systematic approach to problem solving
• Time management
• Safety regulations and procedures