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If you enjoy working in a startup environment and are passionate about developing leading-edge electronics for satellites, spacecraft, and aerospace systems, we would like to hear from you.\nIn this position, you will lead a team responsible for maintaining configuration integrity, traceability, and controlled product definition across aerospace products and programs. This role establishes team priorities, manages resources and technical execution, develops team capabilities, and oversees configuration identification, baseline control, engineering changes, status accounting, and configuration audits. The Manager evaluates configuration status, change impacts, product records, and technical risks to ensure hardware, software, and engineering data remain accurate, controlled, and aligned throughout the product lifecycle.\nThis position requires an experienced configuration management leader with expertise in aerospace product configuration, engineering change control, product lifecycle management, and configuration assurance. The Manager partners cross-functionally with quality, systems, electrical, mechanical, software, manufacturing, supply chain, integration and test, and program management to resolve complex configuration issues and maintain alignment among engineering definition, released data, as-built products, and customer requirements.\nJOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES\nManage configuration management personnel responsible for configuration identification, baseline control, engineering changes, status accounting, and configuration verification.\nEstablish team priorities, allocate resources, and manage execution to achieve configuration, quality, schedule, and program objectives.\nDevelop team capabilities through coaching, mentoring, performance management, technical guidance, and professional development.\nOversee establishment and maintenance of functional, allocated, and product configuration baselines throughout development, qualification, production, and delivery.\nManage configuration 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accordance with program and quality requirements.\nEvaluate configuration metrics, change cycle times, audit findings, data discrepancies, and recurring issues to identify opportunities for improved control and execution.\nImplement improvements to configuration workflows, system (PLM, ERP, MES, etc.) practices, traceability, change control, and product data processes that strengthen configuration integrity and lifecycle assurance.\nJOB REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS\nBachelor's degree in engineering, engineering technology, configuration management, quality, information systems, or a related technical field with 7-9 years of related experience, master's degree in a related field with 5-7 years of related experience in configuration management, engineering change control, product lifecycle management, product data management, quality, or a related technical discipline.\n1-3 years of leadership or management experience.\nAdvanced knowledge of configuration management 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