Senior Manager, Confirguration Management​/Data Management

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Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

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Harris is seeking a Senior Manager, Configuration Management to lead configuration management, change management, and components engineering activities across complex engineering and production programs. This role is responsible for ensuring technical baseline integrity, disciplined change control, and effective component selection and lifecycle management in support of customer, program, and business objectives. The ideal candidate brings strong functional leadership experience, deep technical knowledge, and the ability to partner across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and program management.

• Lead the specialty engineering organization supporting Space Surveillance programs, including technical oversight, personnel development, workload balancing, and performance management.
• Establish and maintain change management processes that support product lifecycle activities, including requirements baseline control, bill of material alignment, document release, engineering change implementation, and status accounting.
• Provide strategic and technical leadership for Space Surveillance configuration control boards, change review boards, and related governance activities to ensure timely and compliant decision-making.
• Partner with engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, contracts, and program management to ensure configuration baselines are accurately defined, controlled, and communicated across the enterprise.
• Ensure compliance with internal procedures, contractual requirements, customer expectations, and applicable industry and government standards related to configuration management and data management.
• Oversee the development, release, control, and audit readiness of technical data packages, engineering documentation, and product structure information within enterprise systems.
• Lead development and maintenance of approved parts lists, derating guidance, application standards, and component engineering procedures to support consistent engineering execution.
• Support failure investigations, root cause analysis, corrective action development, and material review activities involving component performance, suitability, or compliance concerns.
• Drive process improvement initiatives focused on configuration management efficiency, standardization, tool utilization, quality, and cycle time reduction.
• Support program captures, proposals, startup activities, and program execution planning by defining configuration management resource needs, scope, and deliverables.
• Develop and communicate metrics related to change processing, baseline integrity, document quality, and overall functional performance to leadership and stakeholders.
• Travel up to 10% as needed to support business objectives, customer engagement, and…