Hiring: Staff Configuration Management Specialist Company: Firestorm Location: San Diego, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:27:07 Employment Type: On-site Target Skills & Keywords : Assembly, AutoCAD, CAD, Configuration Management, Firmware, Microsoft Excel, Product Data Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Python, SQL, SolidWorks About the job Experience: •7+ years of configuration management, product data management, or engineering release experience in a hardware environment with real rigor (aerospace, defense, automotive, medical device, or similar) Required Skills: •This is a hands-on role reporting into Hardware Engineering, working directly alongside design engineering, production, quality, and supply chain. We are moving fast and building at increasing rate; we need someone rigorous enough to hold the line on the process and pragmatic enough to keep it from becoming a bottleneck. •Own the end-to-end engineering change process — ECR authoring and analysis, CCB disposition, release, implementation, and closure verification — and run it at a cadence that matches how fast we build •Define and maintain the product variant structure for a modular aircraft family, including option dictionaries, 150% or superset BOMs, and configuration rules, so that a valid aircraft configuration can be specified, quoted, and built without being reinvented each time. •Establish and control baselines across the digital thread — requirements, EBOM, MBOM, as-designed, as-built, and as-maintained records — across the Tempest family, Hurricane, El Niño, and future platforms •Own part numbering, revision, and effectivity conventions, including the judgment call on when a change warrants a rev roll versus a new part number, and drive that convention consistently across mechanical, electrical, and payload hardware •Reconcile configuration deltas between builds: what carried forward from the prior top assembly, what rolled revision, what is net-new, and what that means for parts already purchased or on the shelf •Perform inventory disposition analysis on every approved change — use-as-is, rework, scrap, or run-out — so that change decisions are made with the cost and schedule impact visible up front •Administer our PLM and CAD data management environment (Arena and SolidWorks today), and support the evaluation and potential migration to a Teamcenter/NX-class toolchain Qualifications: •Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). •U.S. Citizenship required due to ITAR regulations. •Demonstrated hands-on ownership of a formal change control process: ECR/ECO authoring, CCB facilitation, engineering release, and effectivity setting •Working fluency with a PLM system (Arena, Teamcenter, Windchill, ENOVIA, Duro, or similar) and with CAD data management practices •Strong command of EBOM and MBOM structures, indented BOMs, part numbering schemes, and revision control — including where the engineering and manufacturing views legitimately diverge •Exceptional attention to detail. You are the person who catches the wrong revision buried on line 340 of a 500-line indented BOM, and you care that it was wrong •Demonstrated history of holding yourself and your teammates to a high standard, even when it creates discomfort. •Demonstrated capacity to work from incomplete information, chase down the missing decision, and drive it to closure rather than waiting for someone else to Strong written communication — your baselines, change notices, and process documentation will be read by engineers, technicians, buyers, and customers alike •Comfort working cross-functionally with design engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain, including telling a program that a change is not ready to release •Operational familiarity with EIA-649, MIL-STD-31000 and technical data package delivery, AS9100, or DoD configuration management and CDRL requirements Compensation: •$140,000 - $160,000 / year •Competitive benefits and rewards package •We offer comprehensive medical, dental, and visions plan Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!