Position Description

**Active Secret Clearance Required to Start.**

Researches, analyzes, and compiles technical data for company products and system-level concepts in the projected operational environments to optimize effectiveness over the program lifecycle. Applies systems engineering processes, methodologies and tools to the design of system of systems, systems and new product development. Derives and develops architectures, functional requirements, refinements and product designs. Assists in the integration of technical, cost, value, risks and specialty engineering considerations into definition of the product. Interfaces with other members of the project or program teams, management, sales and marketing staff, customers and suppliers to meet group, organization and company objectives. Performs technical planning and control; maintains and improves processes and software tools. Trains and instructs others. Works under general direction.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES will include, but are not limited to the following:
• Use CM knowledge to develop, recommend, and maintain CM practices, policies, and procedures to support planning, identification, preparation, reviewing, releasing, controlling, changing, and providing the status of all technical data related to the system or equipment under configuration control.
• Establishes the goals of the CM process and effectively coordinates with appropriate personnel to ensure any configuration changes are: identified, tracked throughout the life cycle management, status of each item is known
• Review released engineering change data and documents changes to ensure adherence to CM practices, policies, and procedures and with the required Configuration and Data Management Plan.
• Maintains / enforces procedures and processes to ensure compliance with company and contractual requirements
• Contributes to the development and refinement/improvement of Configuration and Data Management standards, processes and tools; leads implementation of these items
• Interprets and enforces Configuration Management and Data Management requirements for product hardware, software and engineering design data systems throughout the product lifecycle.
• Train and distribute information to technical and managerial staff on CM practices, policies, and procedures.
• Processes changes throughout the entire lifecycle of a change, change request receipt, coordination with the mandatory evaluators, tracking, board support, directive generation and action tracking to closure.
• Leads and/or participates (as appropriate) in Hardware and Software Configuration Control Boards and other functions as needed; provides CM support for all change boards, panels and technical meetings as needed.
• Assists the development of change proposals.
• Interprets and enforces Configuration and Data Management requirements for product hardware, software and engineering design data systems that span multiple engineering functions throughout the product lifecycle.
• Develops and maintains Configuration and Data Management customer deliverables.
• Tracks and reports data to monitor adherence to regulatory, configuration and contractual requirements.
• Supports development of media, Software product end items, and other baseline deliverables to the Customer.
• Administers configuration management activities related to identification, control and accounting for engineering documents, parts, and BOMS for systems and/or equipment in accordance with contractual requirements.
• Participates in reviewing engineering change data and coordinates changes with engineering, quality assurance and manufacturing to ensure compliance with customer requirements and Company policy.
• Maintains procedures for (1) storage, retention and destruction of company records, and (2) processing, storing and retrieving current and historical design, technical and programmatic documents according to project, customer and company practices and requirements.
• Provides visibility to the nature of each change, the system or process impact, and traceability of not only the current revision but the past fielded system versions and future planned revisions through the Change Control Board process (organization or customer driven).
• Perform periodic reviews and verify version release configuration items.
• Plan, document, execute, schedule and conduct jointly with Quality Assurance personnel and the Government customer System Verification Reviews (SVR)/Functional Configuration Audits (FCA) and Physical Configuration Audits (PCA)
• Couriers (in local area) and receives/sends classified data in collaboration with local security personnel; this may involve the creation of classified media