Configuration Management Specialist - Hardware

Prime Air is building and certifying autonomous delivery drones in a heavily regulated aerospace

environment. Configuration management is how the program proves to regulators that the product it

certifies matches - or improves on - the original design intent, through every iteration in between.

This is a hands-on, tactical role, not a strategy role. Program strategy and process frameworks are

already set. The team needs someone who processes changes end to end: works the details of each

change request, chases engineering and supply chain for answers, drives changes through the

Configuration Control Board (CCB), and tracks execution from approval through physical

implementation into the product - raising flags when execution slips from plan. The role sits at the

intersection of engineering, systems, and execution: part technical engineer, part program manager.

Responsibilities

• Meet with Engineering, Manufacturing, Product, and Operations to review upcoming hardware

changes and understand their impact across the enterprise.

• Align with downstream teams to evaluate when a change should be implemented based on material

availability, testing status, integration readiness, and regulatory concurrence.

• Dig into the details of proposed change requests - challenge incomplete definitions, confirm

documentation is complete, and verify change impact is properly captured before the change goes

to the CCB.

• Facilitate hardware change and configuration management activities: change control (running the

CCB), configuration status accounting, product baselining, and release of product lifecycle data.

• Coordinate change integration activities, tracking execution of each design change from approval

through physical implementation into the product, and escalating when activities are not executed

to plan.

• Make and defend part re-identification decisions based on form, fit, function, and

interchangeability.

• Work with the infrastructure tools team to refine toolset processes and improve visibility into

configuration state across the Prime Air program.

• Collaborate with Technical Program Managers (TPMs) and program leads to maintain

configuration integrity as systems evolve.

• Facilitate change request working sessions to improve process workflows and streamline

integration efforts.

• Translate technical requirements into roadmap input for PLM/PDM systems.

• Provide input to executive reviews on how configuration decisions affect vehicle effectivity and

delivery timelines.

• 10+ years of hands-on configuration and change management experience in a heavily regulated

industry (aerospace, nuclear, automotive, or medical). Exceptional candidates with 5-6 years of

strong, hands-on experience in one of these environments will be considered.

• Working-level experience processing engineering changes end to end - change request through

change order through implementation - not solely release/administration of packages prepared by

others.

• Practical command of part and sub-assembly re-identification decisions, including when

interchangeability drives re-identification up the product structure.

• Hands-on experience in an enterprise PLM platform, including change objects, product structure,

and lifecycle data release.

• Demonstrated ownership: comfortable hunting down answers across engineering, supply chain, and

manufacturing rather than waiting for work packages to arrive.

• Able to work on-site in Seattle, WA.

Nice to Have Skills:

• Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE / ENOVIA experience (program PLM platform of record).

• Familiarity with CATIA (CAD) and Infor LN (ERP) data flows into the change process.

• Aerospace change and certification experience, including working with regulatory concurrence in

the change lifecycle.

• Experience in a lean or fast-moving product organization where individual contributors own the

full change package, rather than one slice of it.