Senior Program Configuration Manager - The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc

Draper is an independent, nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. The 2,000+ employees of Draper tackle important national challenges with a promise of delivering successful and usable solutions. From military defense and space exploration to biomedical engineering, lives often depend on the solutions we provide. Our multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists work in a collaborative environment that inspires the cross-fertilization of ideas necessary for true innovation. For more information about Draper, visit www.draper.com.

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As a Senior Program Configuration Manager you will be responsible for formal Configuration/Change Management (CM) activities on various Draper research, development, and production programs with prominent customers such as the Navy, Air Force, NASA, commercial, bio-medical, and others.

• You will apply your prior experience towards developing, documenting, and executing a new, modernized strategy for conducting formal Configuration/Change Management activities in a Model-Based Systems Engineering environment for a program concerned with redesigning and producing a significant Government guidance system asset.
• This person will research and recommend a suitable commercial CM/PLM software tool, leveraging to the extent necessary the features of Draper’s existing infrastructure consisting of Dassault Systèmes Enovia 3D Experience and various other business enterprise tools.
• Lastly you will interface with internal staff from Design Engineering, Digital Engineering, Production, Mission Assurance, and Programs, as well as with customer staff and subcontractors in the planning and execution of the CM function.

Required Qualifications

• A Bachelor's or Associate’s degree in an engineering, math, science, or technology discipline
• At least 8 years of relevant military/commercial CM experience in a design engineering and manufacturing setting
• Strong familiarity with military/commercial CM and documentation-related specifications and standards (such as ANSI/EIA-649, ASME/Y14, MIL-STD-31000, MIL-STD-961, etc.) and the ability to properly interpret and apply them
• Experience planning, documenting, and executing CM functions and processes as applied to documentation work products, electro-mechanical design work products, and software work products

Additional Qualifications: 

• Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering and Model-Based Design
• Working experience in a CM context with one or more commercial Product Lifecycle Management tools such as offerings by Dassault Systèmes, Siemens, Parametric Technology, etc.
• Experience being audited for compliance to CM requirements
• Ability to interact purposefully and resolutely with engineers, task leaders, technical directors, program managers, subcontractors, and customer representatives
• Familiarity with ISO 9001 Quality Management requirements
• Familiarity with project management techniques
• Familiarity with database/web technology, familiarity with MS Office applications suite
• Solid writing, communication, and interpersonal skills, attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

• Working experience with Dassault Systèmes Enovia 3D Experience PLM tool
• A Certification from the Institute of Configuration Management
• Familiarity with AS9100 requirements

Security Requirement

• Ability to obtain and/or maintain a U.S. security clearance

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