Configuration Management Leader

About this position

Beehive Industries is dedicated to Powering American Defense by revolutionizing the design, development, and delivery of jet propulsion systems to support the warfighter. Through the integration of additive manufacturing, the company aims to meet the growing and urgent needs for unmanned aerial defense by dramatically improving a jet engine’s speed to market, fuel efficiency, and cost.

Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, with additional facilities in Knoxville, Tennessee, Loveland Ohio, and Mount Vernon, Ohio. Beehive is committed to grow and advance the defense industrial base while manufacturing exclusively in the USA. This role will be located at our Loveland, Ohio facility.

The Configuration Management Leader is responsible for leading the engineering configuration management function while remaining deeply involved in day-to-day execution. This player-coach role combines people leadership, team development, workload prioritization, and functional strategy with a substantial individual contributor workload. The leader will establish the processes, governance, and controls required to maintain product configuration integrity throughout development and production.

Serving as the organization’s configuration management subject matter expert, this leader ensures product requirements, technical data, baselines, and approved changes remain accurate, traceable, and compliant. The successful candidate will partner across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and program teams while applying configuration discipline in a practical, scalable way that fits a fast-paced, evolving start-up environment.

• Lead the engineering configuration management function, including responsibility for team direction, workload prioritization, performance management, coaching, development, and capability building.
• Lead and execute a strategic approach and process improvements for part numbers, revision control, and piece-part and assembly level management. The right candidate will have a deep understanding of the pros/cons of different approaches to this in industry.
• Establish clear roles, responsibilities, operating rhythms, and performance expectations for the configuration management team.
• Balance leadership responsibilities with a substantial hands-on workload, personally executing critical configuration management activities alongside the team.
• Assess functional capacity, identify capability gaps, and develop staffing, training, tools, and process improvement plans to support business and program needs.
• Assign and prioritize work based on program risk, production needs, technical complexity, and business objectives.
• Provide technical guidance, review team deliverables, remove barriers, and ensure configuration management work is completed accurately and on schedule.
• Build strong working relationships across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and product management to improve accountability and execution throughout the product lifecycle.
• Define and execute the engineering configuration management strategy, governance framework, processes, and controls for product development and production.
• Personally manage complex or high-risk configuration management activities, including baseline establishment, change evaluation, configuration status accounting, technical data reviews, and implementation planning.
• Establish and maintain traceability among product requirements and associated performance, functional, mechanical, electrical, controls, design, manufacturing, and operational information.
• Chair the Configuration Control Board for engine products and lead the evaluation, approval, implementation, effectivity, and documentation of configuration changes.
• Ensure approved changes are properly incorporated across drawings, models, bills of material, specifications, work instructions, technical records, and other affected product data.
• Maintain the integrity of structured product data, including system documentation, engineering drawings, design artifacts, product baselines, technical records, and associated configuration…