Configuration Manager - Product

Saronic · Defense · Austin, TX · Engineering

Configuration Manager responsible for maintaining product definition, audit compliance, and part traceability across programs, ensuring version-controlled consistency in engineering, manufacturing, and sustainment environments. This role acts as the central authority for item reuse, revision, and control across multiple programs, working with various departments to ensure accurate and auditable product configurations aligned with contract and regulatory expectations.

What you'd actually do

  1. Maintain structured part and assembly relationships across all platforms and variants
  2. Own the item master definition for Saronic’s parts, subassemblies, and COTS items across programs
  3. Ensure all product data is version-controlled, baselined, and auditable at the component, system, and platform level
  4. Govern how items and designs are reused or revised across multiple configurations, with clear traceability
  5. Partner with manufacturing engineering to validate MBOM alignment to the product configuration baseline

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in configuration management, product data governance, or related roles
  • Deep familiarity with product structure: items, subassemblies, configurations, alternates, and interchangeability rules
  • Working knowledge of engineering change control (ECOs), drawing versioning, and part release processes
  • Familiarity with configuration and documentation standards such as EIA-649, ASME Y14.5, ISO 9001, or MIL-STD equivalents
  • Experience working with PLM/PDM systems (Teamcenter preferred) to manage product definitions and revision histories
  • Comfortable navigating engineering BOMs, manufacturing BOMs, and how they diverge across programs
  • Ability to collaborate and enforce data discipline across engineering, operations, supply chain, and program management
  • Strong documentation, audit preparation, and version traceability skills

Nice to have

  • Teamcenter preferred

What the JD emphasized

  • high attention to detail
  • fluency in product structure
  • confidence enforcing standards across teams
  • EIA-649
  • ASME Y14.5
  • ISO 9001