Title:  Manager, Configuration/Data Management

Job Title: Manager, Configuration/Data Management

Job Code: 31092

Job Location: Londonderry, New Hampshire

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

L3Harris Technologies, Inc. is seeking a manager to join its team of Configuration Management (CM) and Data Management (DM) professionals. This leadership role is located on-site in Londonderry, NH. This individual will oversee and manage a department that plans and coordinates configuration management of the Quality Management System (QMS) and project documentation, such as departmental instructions, engineering drawings, product specifications, and contract modifications, to ensure fidelity of configuration management data. They will be responsible for management of personnel and execution of tasks. They will manage the setup of new programs, including the creation of Configuration Management plans and baselines. The CM/DM manager implements and maintains an Engineering Change Control System, including product improvements, repairs, and new product development. They will coordinate the configuration data between Engineering, Quality, Operations, Program Management, Contracts, and government customers to ensure baseline and all changes are documented appropriately.

As a leader, you will always act with integrity and ensure that the highest ethical standards characterize everything you do. You will enable your team to achieve predictable and balanced results, while satisfying the needs of internal and external partners. You will guide your team to deliver excellence and strive for continuous improvement.

Essential Functions:

• Ability to think and draw conclusions quickly, adapt to change, be open to new ideas, take on new responsibilities, handle pressure, and adjust plans and priorities to meet changing needs
• Ensures all contractual requirements pertaining to configuration management are implemented and followed on a given program.
• Validates engineering drawings, specifications, contract deliverables, various software documentation, contract modifications, and design release documents to ensure compliance with customer contract requirements.
• Develops, maintains, and executes plans to ensure fidelity of business processes and project documentation
• Analyzes proposed changes of product design to determine change classification and effect on overall product and system baselines.
• Manages functional, allocated, and product baselines through change management.
• Participates in Configuration Control Board (CCB) meetings
• Compiles audit information and conduct audits of systems to verify the baseline documentation is accurate and complete. Obtains customer acceptance of baseline documentation through formal configuration verifications and audits, such as functional configuration and physical configuration audits. Supports ISO 9001:2015 audits.
• Audits subcontractors’ CM documentation policies and procedures to verify compliance with prime contractor requirements.
• Ensures unique product identifiers for baseline data, systems/subsystems, and formal program deliverables are used. Tracks the status of these items using Configuration Status Accounting methodologies.
• Plans for and uses resources efficiently, looks for ways to reduce costs, creates accurate and realistic budgets, tracks and adjusts budgets, contributes to budget planning
• Defines roles and responsibilities, motivates and challenges employees, delegates effectively, rewards contributions, manages collaboratively

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 9 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years prior related experience.
• Minimum of 3 years in a management role.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Familiarity with configuration management standards, including EIA-649C
• Configuration Management certifications (e.g., CDM, CDMP, CMPIC)
• Minimum of 3 years in a management role.
• Expert knowledge of Configuration and Engineering Change Management (ECM)  processes, techniques, tools, related assignments (System, Hardware, Software), and project related work.
• Experience in a leadership role, communicating with and influencing stakeholders at all levels.
• Working knowledge of contract requirements identification, engineering design documentation, and build and test processes
• Knowledge of Teamcenter PLM and Costpoint ERP applications
• Good written and verbal communication skills to allow effective communication with both technical and non-technical teams
• Good listening skills, builds strong relationships, is flexible/open-minded, negotiates effectively, solicits performance feedback and handles constructive criticism
• Critical thinking, analytical, able to draw conclusions quickly, open to new ideas, take on new responsibilities, handle pressure, and adjust plans and priorities to changing needs.