Configuration & Data Manager - Secret Clearance

Chantilly, VA

Rocket Lab is an end‑to‑end space company delivering responsive launch services, complete spacecraft design and manufacturing, payloads, satellite components, and more – all with the goal of opening access to space. Our Electron rocket has become the second most frequently launched U.S. rocket annually and has delivered more than 230 satellites to orbit, while we develop Neutron, our upcoming medium‑lift,. Our Space Systems business designs and builds a wide line of satellites, payloads and components, including spacecraft selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars and components used on the James Webb Space Telescope.

Rocket Lab’s Optical Systems division solves mission‑critical space domain and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) challenges for Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community customers. We are looking for a Configuration and Data Manager based at our Optical Systems site in Chantilly, VA. You will support internal and and suppliers by providing procedural configuration execution for all projects and programs through their lifecycle and ensuring that data released, transmitted, or exported complies with customer, regulatory and company procedures.

report to the Program Manager.

• Develop and implement configuration management plans and procedures to ensure the integrity and traceability of all project artifacts.
• Establish and maintain baseline configurations for software, hardware, and documentation throughout the product lifecycle.
• Manage the configuration control board (CCB) process, including the review and approval of configuration changes.
• Oversee data management activities, including data collection, storage, retrieval, and archival.
• Implement data quality control measures to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data assets.
• Examine and analyze documents, drawings, change orders, and specifications to verify completeness and accuracy of data from a control perspective to ensure the data meets the standards before release.
• Comply and verify requested configuration of documents, drawings, and models prior to export to customer and/or suppliers.
• Prepare data for transmission or export using approved methods for ITAR/EAR control prior to posting to an approved portal site.
• Ensure that proper procedures are followed during the release of all engineering changes.
• Explain policies, practices, and procedures in support of engineering releases and the turnback process.
• Support audits for the company release process as needed.
• Post customer SDRL deliverables as needed and track the status of rejected items.
• Interface with customer through web tools and ensure customer documentation is downloaded for release in the RLOS release system.
• Update the RLOS release system as required, assist with batch loads to support system marking as necessary.
• Travel less than 10% internationally and domestically.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other technical discipline.
• 8+ years of work experience.
• Active Secret clearance with TS/SCIli>
• Demonstrable experience in utilizing MS Office.

• Current SSli>
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to assess and propose effective solutions.
• Excellent management skills, including the ability to prioritize tasks, manage resources, and deliver results.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and present technical information to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.
• Regularly required to sit, use hands and fingers, operate computer keyboard and controls, and communicate verbally and in writing.
• Must be physically able to commute to buildings.
• Occasional exposure to dust, fumes, and moderate levels of noise.

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