Configuration Management Manager

At ANPC, we solve the world’s most difficult airfield challenges. We are a team of extraordinary professionals working together to perform an important mission to uniquely serve airports with terrain, obstacles and other challenges that no other business can provide. We aren’t looking for a "task-tracker"—we’re looking for an execution specialist who lives for the "how". You’ll be the critical gatekeeper of our internal engineering configuration controls, turning high-precision navigation and surveillance requirements into certified, flight-ready, perfectly documented reality.

We are recruiting for candidates willing to live and work in the Hood River, Oregon area. This is not a remote eligible position.

As the Configuration Management (CM) Manager, you will support the design, development, and integration of mission-critical navigation equipment for the aerospace industry. This role is central to our product development lifecycle—spanning from initial concept, product use definition, formal design reviews, rigorous integration testing, and finally to audited product delivery. Deeply rooted in W. Edwards Deming's principles of continuous improvement, this role focuses on pulling configuration integrity and data control much earlier into the product lifecycle process to eliminate downstream engineering waste and variances.

You will serve as the technical authority for product data, baseline integrity, and change execution. You will maintain ultimate ownership over the creation, maintenance, and enforcement of all core technical baselines: the Functional Baseline, the Allocated Baseline, the Developmental Baselines, and the Production Baseline. Additionally, you will directly control the formal verification process via Functional Configuration Audits (FCA) and Physical Configuration Audits (PCA), while executing Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) as tightly managed, approved technical projects.

Partnering across engineering disciplines, you will ensure our safety-critical hardware and software systems are high-performing, traceable, and certifiable.

• 80% Internal Engine:
  You are in the trenches with our Systems, Software, Hardware, Mechanical, Electrical, and Production teams. Directly leading a core CM team member, you’ll run the Configuration Control Boards (CCBs), manage the ECO pipeline, audit developmental baselines, and maintain the single source of truth in our product lifecycle management tools.
• 20% Strategic Interface:
  You get a seat at the table. You will actively lead efforts to pull configuration and data management controls earlier into the design cycle, ensuring our internal engineering data, external development partners, and customer stakeholders remain synchronized.

This isn't a "cog in the machine" role. Working in the Systems Engineering team, you’ll have the autonomy to lead cross-functional teams through the high-stakes world of product development and sustainment. You’ll work with modular systems and incremental, concurrent engineering in an environment where precision is the only option. You’ll champion an advanced CM process that continuously improves, designing in quality and traceability from day one.

• Orchestrate & Deliver ECO Projects:
  Lead the planning, execution, tracking, and closure of Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) treated as approved internal and external technical projects using ANPC’s Product Lifecycle framework.
• Control Complete Baselines:
  Integrate development and systems engineering efforts with Configuration Management to establish and maintain proper baseline controls across the functional, allocated, developmental, and production levels.
• Govern Configuration Audits:
  Schedule, manage, and execute all formal product Functional Configuration Audits (FCA) and Physical Configuration Audits (PCA) to verify that manufactured and deployed systems perfectly match approved configuration documentation.
• Pull Quality Upstream:
  Partner across multi-disciplinary engineering functions to allocate requirements early in the lifecycle, continuously improving internal configuration management processes to…