Configuration and Change Control Manager

The Configuration and Change Control Manager is a senior individual contributor responsible for owning configuration discipline for the fielded V-BAT fleet. This role ensures Shield AI maintains an accurate, traceable, and controlled understanding of what hardware, software, payload, and ground system configurations are deployed.

What You Will Do

Own and maintain the V-BAT fielded and as-maintained configuration baseline for aircraft, payloads, software, ground equipment, support equipment, and related sustainment assets. Track aircraft serial numbers, hardware revisions, software versions, payload configurations, ground system configurations, fielded modifications, retrofit status, and customer-specific baselines.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role requires strong process discipline, technical fluency, attention to detail, and the ability to drive cross-functional accountability without direct authority. The ideal candidate will have experience managing configuration baselines, revision control, change effectivity, fielded asset records, engineering change processes, or product release control in a complex technical environment.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in configuration management, change control, aviation sustainment, hardware/software product support, manufacturing operations, product lifecycle management, engineering operations, or complex hardware sustainment
• Demonstrated experience managing configuration baselines, revision control, change effectivity, fielded asset records, engineering change processes, or product release control in a complex technical environment
• Strong understanding of configuration baselines, as-built records, as-maintained records, revision control, serial number traceability, effectivity management, and engineering change control
• Experience supporting Engineering Change Requests, Engineering Change Orders, release readiness reviews, retrofit planning, service actions, or fielded product updates
• Experience tracking or managing hardware revisions, software versions, payload configurations, ground equipment configurations, customer-specific configurations, or deployed asset baselines
• Ability to determine which aircraft, systems, customers, configurations, or serial numbers are affected by a given change, issue, release, retrofit, or service action
• Experience working across Product Engineering, Sustainment Engineering, Fleet Support, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Operations, Customer Success, and Configuration Management teams
• Strong technical fluency with bills of material, part revisions, drawings, software releases, hardware changes, configuration records, product structures, or fielded system documentation
• Strong process discipline and attention to detail, with the ability to maintain accurate records across multiple systems, stakeholders, and changing priorities
• Ability to identify configuration risks, traceability gaps, undocumented changes, incomplete records, and process breakdowns before they affect fleet readiness or customer support
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly communicate change applicability, implementation status, configuration risks, and decision needs
• Ability to operate independently as a senior IC and drive cross-functional accountability without direct authority
• Ability to balance configuration rigor with field support urgency, release timelines, customer needs, and operational realities

Benefits

• Bonus
• Benefits
• Equity