Sr. Configuration Management Specialist

At Zone 5 Technologies, we’re redefining what's possible in unmanned aircraft systems. Our team of engineers and innovators is developing cutting‑edge autonomous solutions that push the boundaries of UAS technology - solving complex challenges that matter.

We're building the future of UAS capabilities, and we're looking for exceptional talent to join us. If you're driven by hard problems, energized by rapid innovation, and ready to make an impact on next‑generation flight systems, you belong here.

Join our growing aerospace and defense organization as a Senior Configuration Management Specialist (Level III). This role independently executes and coordinates configuration management across assigned programs, products, and lifecycle phases. The specialist partners with Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Software, Systems Engineering, and Program Management to maintain configuration integrity from concept and development through production, delivery, and sustainment.

The Level III specialist serves as a trusted program CM practitioner and may lead defined work streams, facilitate change‑control activities, and mentor less‑experienced team members. This is an individual‑contributor position aligned to enterprise CM governance and direction from the Senior Configuration Manager.

This is one onsite position with location flexibility. The selected candidate may be based at the Dallas‑Fort Worth, Fort Walton Beach, or San Luis Obispo site and should identify their preferred location when applying.

• Own day‑to‑day configuration management execution for assigned programs, products, and projects while ensuring alignment with enterprise policies, program plans, contracts, and applicable industry requirements.
• Develop and maintain program configuration management plans, procedures, work instructions, checklists, and lifecycle records under enterprise CM governance.
• Establish, document, and maintain configuration identification and product structures for hardware, software, firmware, documentation, interfaces, and technical data.
• Coordinate functional, allocated, product, production, as‑built, as‑tested, and as‑maintained baseline activities as required by the program lifecycle and contract.
• Support and facilitate Configuration Control Boards (CCBs) and Software Configuration Control Boards (SCCBs), including agenda preparation, change‑package readiness, stakeholder coordination, decision records, and action tracking.
• Review engineering change requests, engineering change orders, deviations, waivers, problem reports, and related change documentation for completeness, traceability, classification, effectivity, and implementation planning.
• Maintain configuration status accounting for approved changes, baselines, releases, effectivity, serial applicability, open actions, implementation status, and technical data deliveries.
• Verify that approved changes are fully implemented across affected drawings, specifications, bills of material, work instructions, software repositories, test artifacts, planning records, and downstream business systems.
• Help maintain alignment among requirements, design data, EBOMs, MBOMs, SBOMs, ERP/MRP, MES, QMS, PDM/PLM, and software‑development repositories to strengthen the digital thread.
• Perform release‑readiness and baseline‑completeness reviews before production, test, delivery, or major technical milestones.
• Support functional and physical configuration audits, production readiness reviews, first article activities, customer reviews, and internal or external compliance assessments.
• Identify and resolve configuration discrepancies involving engineering data, manufacturing planning, software versions, effectivity, serialized product…