Sr. Configuration Management Specialist

The role

This Senior Configuration Management Specialist (Level III) executes and coordinates configuration management across assigned aerospace and defense programs. The role supports change control, baselines, audits, and release readiness from development through production and sustainment.

What you will do

• Own day-to-day configuration management for assigned programs, products, and projects
• Develop and maintain CM plans, procedures, work instructions, and lifecycle records
• Establish and maintain configuration identification and product structures
• Coordinate functional, allocated, product, production, as-built, as-tested, and as-maintained baselines
• Support and facilitate Configuration Control Boards and Software Configuration Control Boards
• Review engineering change requests, orders, deviations, waivers, and problem reports
• Maintain configuration status accounting for changes, baselines, releases, and implementation status
• Verify approved changes are fully implemented across drawings, BOMs, software, and business systems
• Perform release-readiness and baseline-completeness reviews
• Support configuration audits, production readiness reviews, and customer reviews

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, systems engineering, information management, business, or a related discipline, with at least five years of relevant configuration management experience; an equivalen
• Hands-on experience with configuration identification, change control, status accounting, baseline management, release management, and configuration audits
• Experience supporting complex hardware, software, firmware, or integrated product development in aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or another highly regulated environment
• Working knowledge of engineering drawings, specifications, bills of material, revision control, effectivity, serialization, and lifecycle records
• Ability to evaluate change packages for cross-functional impact and trace changes through engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, test, and delivery records

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and more
• 401k with company match
• 3 weeks of paid time off each year
• 40 hours of sick time
• 12 annual company holidays
• Career growth and professional development opportunities

Before you apply

• Must verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States upon hire
• Employer is a federal contractor and participates in E-Verify

About the company

Zone 5 Technologies develops precision weapons, interceptors, and unmanned aircraft systems for the United States and its allies. The company describes its work as redefining autonomous solutions for affordable and scalable defense technology.