Navy - Configuration Management Specialist

cFocus Software seeks a Configuration Management Specialist to join our program supporting the United States Navy (DON). This position is on site in the San Diego, CA area. This position requires a Secret clearance., * Prepare, maintain, and update Information Warfare Platform (IWP) Capability Baselines for surface ships and shore platforms.

• Support Baseline Management (BLM) and Configuration Management (CM) activities for Program Management Warfare (PMW) offices, NAVWAR, Platform Readiness Reviews (PRRs), and Execution Readiness Reviews (ERRs).
• Develop and maintain As-Planned and As-Installed platform baselines and associated modernization documentation.
• Perform baseline wholeness analyses and configuration assessments supporting PRRs, ERRs, and fleet readiness initiatives.
• Support Configuration Management Governance Boards, Platform Configuration Control Boards (PCCBs), Technical Review Boards (PTRBs), and other configuration review forums.
• Maintain configuration records, change histories, audit trails, and document repositories to ensure traceability and accountability.
• Coordinate and track Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs), Ship Change Documents (SCDs), installation drawings, technical directives, and configuration updates.
• Monitor and validate configuration data within SPIDER, RIPTIDE, iMET, and other Navy modernization and configuration management systems.
• Provide recommendations to improve configuration control processes, database accuracy, and modernization planning tools.
• Support modernization planning by validating platform configurations, system dependencies, capability builds, and integration requirements.
• Review and reconcile configuration discrepancies, missing records, and historical modernization data.
• Support platform installation readiness activities, funding execution tracking, and schedule coordination associated with approved modernization efforts.
• Prepare and maintain Quarterly Work Packages (QWPs), baseline reports, status reports, metrics, and executive briefings.
• Coordinate configuration management activities with engineers, logisticians, acquisition personnel, installation managers, planners, and Government stakeholders.
• Conduct configuration audits, data validation activities, and quality reviews to ensure compliance with Navy policies and configuration management standards.
• Provide technical documentation support, meeting support, action item tracking, and configuration status accounting.

• Active Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Business, Program Management, Logistics, Computer Science, or related discipline.
• 3 - 7+ years of experience supporting configuration management, baseline management, engineering support, modernization planning, or related DoD programs.
• Experience supporting Navy, NAVWAR, PEO C4I, or other DoD acquisition and modernization programs is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of configuration management principles, baseline management, and change control processes.
• Understanding of Navy modernization processes, platform integration activities, and configuration governance requirements.
• Experience supporting technical reviews, configuration control boards, readiness reviews, and modernization planning activities.
• Knowledge of engineering documentation, technical baselines, installation documentation, and configuration status accounting.
• Experience with SPIDER, RIPTIDE, iMET, SharePoint, databases, or similar configuration management systems.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and data management skills.
• Ability to perform configuration audits, discrepancy analysis, and data reconciliation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to prepare reports, briefings, and executive-level documentation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.

Invitation for Job Applicants to Self-Identify as a U.S. Veteran

• A "disabled veteran" is one of the following:

• a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or
• a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

• A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.
• An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.
• An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.