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# Control System Configuration Management

- **Company:** Rolls-Royce
- **Location:** Indianapolis, IN, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $73,120.0 - $118,820.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Configuration Management, Data Integrity, Hardware Design, Technical Data Management Systems
- **Published:** September 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jofdav.com/jobs/59683445-control-system-configuration-management

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree with 2+ years of experience OR
 * Master's degree OR
 * JD/Ph.D.
 * In order to be eligible for consideration, you must be a US Citizen or US Permanent Resident

Preferred:

 * Experience of configuration control or quality (process assurance)
 * Familiar with product development
 * Involved in Process development, compliance and continuous improvement
 * Desire to successfully work in a team environment, establishing collaborative relationships with coworkers
 * Ability to present technical data and conclusions/recommendations to senior engineers and management

Our vision is to ensure that the quality and dynamism that shaped our history continues into our future. It's a bold pursuit, and we never stop striving to go further, faster, and better. We lead progress, creating the technologies that move us forward. If you're driven to grow, to learn, and to make a lasting difference, this is where you belong.

## Description

The Configuration Management (CM) specialist supports engineers in complex system, software and hardware development. They are an active participant, helping the teams understand and comply with the CM aspects of the processes. During development it is important that the product life cycle data is controlled and documented correctly and consistently. When the product is ready for release, CM will assure data integrity is protected (baselined and archived) and can be retrieved. The CM specialist will also administer the CM tools and document the various baselines in the product Configuration Indices. CM ensures that changes to configured data are authorized and tracked to completion.

What you will be doing:

The CM specialist will be expected to perform the following:

 * Ensure the CM aspects of development conform to the declared plans and standards.
 * Maintain and explain the product and lifecycle data configuration baselines.
 * Understand the integration of all plans and standards involving configuration control, change management, and the control/release of data.
 * Understand data and archive media management.
 * Be a quorum member of the Change Control Board.
 * Enforce product and document review and approval requirements
 * Continuously improve CM practices and tools


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