Position Details

Position Id : 376796
Status : Closed
Location : Plano, Texas
Duration : 7+ months
Pay Rate : DOE
Employment Type : Contract
Work Shift : Shift-1

Position Description

Position is 100% on-site

Seeking a Configuration Management Engineer with a strong background in configuration control, process/product baselines, and data management. You have an interest in developing new engineering processes, tools, and ideas to help AvionX Product Support achieve their internal goals. You are a self-motivated individual that is interested in growing their overall configuration management engineering knowledge in the support of product development related to avionics.

Position Responsibilities:
• Owns the development and implementation of configuration and data management standards, plans, processes, and tools related to product support
• Defines and manages configuration and data management activities, requirements, documentation, templates, and deliverables etc. for product support
• Partners with AvionX engineering to ensure smooth transition from design/production to support activities
• Continual evaluation and assessment of current configuration management processes (baseline, release, change, and configuration control) for improvements and efficiency. Updates, reviews, and authors new documentation where necessary
• Participates and/or administers product line Engineering Decisions Boards and the Change Control Boards, Program Management reviews and other operational meetings, maintains agenda, minutes, and approval artifacts
• Assists with the development and implementation of Product Support/Sustainment program plans of limited scope including impacts, risks and incorporation of lessons learned related to configuration management
• Establish Product Support training resources to be adopted by AvionX personnel around the world

Requirements

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):
• Bachelor, Master or Doctorate of Science degree from an accredited course of study, in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry
• 7+ years of experience with configuration management process and practices
• 5+ years of experience with engineering baseline, release and configuration control execution and processes
• 5+ years of experience with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Configuration Management systems, Change Management, and PLM Processes and Tools
• Strong communication skills

Top Must Haves:
1. Previous experience as a configuration management engineer specialist. Specifically, creating processes, documenting process, etc.
2. Avionics product development, support and sustainment experience in any of these backgrounds: Aerospace, Military, Jets, helicopters, drones
3. Experience specifically with boxes on aircrafts with a focus on LRU – Line replaceable unit

Plusses:
1. Experience in operating in a new team with ambiguity and high autonomy

Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 9 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g. PhD+4 years' related work experience, Master+7 years' related work experience). In the USA, ABET accreditation is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.

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