Specialist, Configuration Manager

Company: L3Harris
Location: Palm Bay
Posted on: March 19, 2023

Job Description:

Description:

Job Title: Configuration Management Specialist

Job Code: SAS20233001-96332

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL

Job Description:

The Configuration Management Specialist is a specialty engineering support role that performs configuration management (CM) functions to establish consistency of product performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information. The primary goal of this role is to maintain the integrity of system documentation, drawings, design artifacts, baselines, records, and associated configuration information using established configuration processes and controls. This role provides additional on-demand support to various engineering and program management teams as a subject matter expert for analyses, consultations, special topic discussions, tools support, DevOps support, and other tasking as required.

Essential Functions:

* Implements established configuration management documentation, processes, and principles in an Agile development environment
* Administers existing configuration management toolsets, to include Agile Product Data Management (PDM), Rational ClearQuest, Windchill, and/or JIRA
* Facilitates the Configuration Change Board (CCB) process by analyzing proposed product design changes for accuracy, completeness, and to determine the effect on the overall system
* Organizes, reviews, and authorizes the release of drawings and documentation specified by Program or Engineering Management
* Provides advice and guidance on configuration management methods, tools, procedures, and requirements to project team members responsible for the creation of drawings and documentation
* Plans for and implements continuous improvement projects
* Acts as liaison between management and other functional groups to resolve issues regarding configuration processes and records
* Supports program audits including functional and physical configuration audits
* Prepares Configuration Management cost plans for task orders and proposals

Qualifications:

* Active TS/SCI clearance required
* Requires strong technical knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with prior experience in an engineering support role such as configuration manager (CM), quality assurance technician (QA/QE/QC), design drafter, technical writer, program operations analyst, systems support engineer, integration and test engineer, specialty engineer, or similar
* Experience using version control tools such as Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Agile PDM, SolidWorks, ClearCase, Subversion, Confluence, Windchill or similar
* Willingness to work overtime and/or outside of normal business hours as needed to meet critical deadlines and business requirements
* Bachelor's Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience or 2 years post-Secondary/ Associates Degree and a minimum of 8 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience

Preferred Additional Skills:

* Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio). Specific skills include the ablity to create and edit documents, generate and apply templates, generate and apply macros, edit and use styles, apply stamps, and apply other formatting functions within these tools.
* Knowledge of EIA-649C, MIL-STD-973, and other relevant Configuration Management standards
* One or more relevant Configuration Management certification(s) such as CMPIC or NDIA
* Experience working in a fast-paced continuous change / agile engineering environment
* Experience reading and interpreting Statements of Work, Drawings, Schematics, and Parts Lists
* Experience in continuous process improvement techniques such as Lean Six Sigma

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