Configuration Manager

Job Description:

Airbus is an international pioneer in the aerospace industry. We are a leader in designing, manufacturing and delivering aerospace products, services and solutions to customers on a global scale. We aim for a better-connected, safer and more prosperous world.

A commercial aircraft manufacturer, with Space and Defense as well as Helicopters Divisions, Airbus is the largest aeronautics and space company in Europe and a worldwide leader.

Airbus has built on its strong European heritage to become truly international - with roughly 180 locations and 12,000 direct suppliers globally. The company has aircraft and helicopter final assembly lines across Asia, Europe and the Americas, and has achieved a more than six fold order book increase since 2000.

Are you ready to soar with us? Aerovel, a trailblazer in the unmanned aircraft industry is seeking a Configuration Manager to join our cutting-edge team. As part of our close-knit family, you’ll collaborate on ground-breaking projects, pushing the boundaries of technology. Your mission: drive excellence, innovation, and impact. Join us at the forefront of the unmanned aviation evolution!

Meet the Team:

The Airbus Helicopters Flexrotor Program offers one of the most sophisticated small tactical unmanned aerial systems (STUAS) with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL). It can be used day or night by US and allied forces for a diverse range of intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) on land and at sea.

Your Working Environment:

Nestled in the heart of the spectacular Columbia River Gorge in Bingen, WA, our workplace offers innovation and the ability to contribute to game-changing solutions while enjoying the flexibility to spread your wings. Whether it's solving complex challenges, or celebrating victories, you’ll be part of a cohesive crew that thrives on innovation and the beauty that the Northwest has to offer!

How We Care for You:

• Financial Rewards: Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)

• Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program.

• Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.

• Individual Development: Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000 e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes and both national and international mobility.

Your Challenges:

• Building and create configuration management program within the Flexrotor Program and future programs

• Coordinate and administer configuration management activities related to identification and control of engineering documents for customer programs in accordance with contractual requirements.

• Review customer contracts to assure the accuracy of current contractual reporting requirements.

• Maintain procedures for storage, retention and destruction of company records, processing, storing and retrieving current and historical design, technical and program documents according to project, customer and company practices and requirements.

• Schedule and lead change control meetings.

• Work in a team environment to establish and execute a configuration management program for multiple systems/programs in various stages of design, development, or operations.

• Recommend process improvements based on best practices and/or industry standards, facilitate post implementation reviews on failures and major changes when an unexpected impact occurs

• Working closely with various teams in order to ensure changes are fully documented and approved prior to implementation with the goal to ensure compliance

• Control configuration of baselines, monitor the incorporation of configuration change items, contribute to the documentation and life cycle management of changes.

• Maintain configuration control databases and provides status accounting of engineering changes.

• Conduct audits of CM activities throughout a project’s life cycle to verify compliance with established CM procedures and standards.

• Review change requests to ensure they meet established completion criteria, identify conflicts and associated risks.

• Review all implemented changes to ensure Change traceability: changes proposed, approved, and implemented for an item number (including effectivity); and the items affected by a given proposed, approved, or obsoleted change.

• Provide expertise in understanding FAR and DFARS regulations and working with government contracts.

• Develop and implement processes to ensure compliance with company policies/procedures, continual process improvement

• Anticipate issues proactively and escalate change related issues to Manager as appropriate.

• Assist in Root Cause Analysis for change failures to improve the overall process, if required.

• Encourage an innovative working environment while motivating, organizing, and encouraging teamwork within the workforce.

• Provide leadership by establishing clear expectations and demonstrating high standards of work practices.

• Complete training on relevant quality procedures and understand the contribution to the achievement of company quality objectives.

Your Boarding Pass:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or related field preferred or the equivalent in experience.

• 10 years of relevant configuration management experience.  

• Candidate must have minimum three (3) years’ experience working with government programs

• Candidate must have detailed working knowledge of configuration management principles and processes

• Ability to work in the US without current, or future, need for visa sponsorship/work authorization is required for this opportunity.

Physical Requirements:

• Onsite: 95% - onsite in Bingen, Washington. 

• Vision: able to see and read computer screen and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings daily

• Hearing: able to hear to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds including safety warnings or alarms daily

• Speaking: able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications daily

• Equipment Operation: able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment daily

• Carrying: able to carry documents, drawings, electronic equipment up to 10lbs daily

• Lifting: able to lift documents, drawings, electronic equipment up to 10lbs daily

• Pushing / Pulling: able to push and pull small office furniture occasionally

• Sitting: able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on computer daily

• Squatting / Kneeling: able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving occasionally

• Standing: able to stand for discussions in offices daily

• Travel: able to travel independently and at short notice rarely

• Walking: able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces daily

• Personal Protective Equipment required: Steel-toed shoes are required for all shop floor visits, appropriate hearing/eye protection may also be required when visiting the shop floor.

Take your career to a new level and apply online now!

Summary pay range:  $104,711 - $167,649 annually.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

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Salary : $104,711 - $167,649