# Staff Aircraft Configuration Manager

**Company:** [Shield AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/shield-ai)
**Location:** Dallas, TX
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $150k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Configuration Management, Ecps, Tdp, Change Control Boards, Plm, ERP, Fleet Operations, Aerospace, Uas, V-Bat, Government Contracts
**Posted:** 2026-07-08

> Serve as the enterprise source of truth for aircraft fleet configuration. Consolidate data across departments, plan and execute quarterly configuration update rollouts to 100% compliance, coordinate with Engineering on ECPs and changes, and maintain audit-quality records. Requires 7+ years aerospace configuration management experience.

## Job Description

## What you'll do

### Enterprise Configuration Source of Truth
- Maintain the authoritative catalog of approved aircraft configurations across the enterprise: every variant, build standard, payload combination, and software baseline currently in operation or planned.
- Reconcile configuration data tracked separately by Engineering, Sustainment, Customer Success, and Field Operations into a single ground-truth record.
- Resolve discrepancies between departments and own the corrected master state.

### Quarterly Update Planning & Execution
- Receive configuration release packages from Engineering each quarter and build the rollout plan that determines which aircraft get updated when, by whom, and in what sequence.
- Coordinate installation windows with Sustainment, AVOs, Field Operations, and customers on deployed aircraft.
- Track update status from kickoff through 100% fleet compliance and report progress to Mission Control and senior leadership.

### Cross-Functional Configuration Coordination
- Serve as the primary Fleet Strategy interface to Engineering for new configurations, ECPs, and design changes that affect the fielded fleet.
- Coordinate update windows with customers operating deployed aircraft.
- Schedule Sustainment or field teams for installation activities.
- Flag configuration constraints (eligibility, dependencies, downtime impacts) to Mission Control during fleet allocation decisions.

### Configuration Change Records & Compliance
- Maintain audit-quality records of every configuration change to every aircraft in the fleet.
- Ensure compliance with contractual configuration requirements per customer and per program.
- Support internal and customer audits with complete documentation of fielded configuration state and change history.

## Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Aviation Management, Operations Research, or related field.
- 7+ years of experience in aerospace configuration management, program management, or fleet operations.
- Formal configuration management experience: baselines, ECPs, TDP, change control boards.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional rollout plans across multiple internal organizations.
- Strong organizational and documentation skills.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to interface across Engineering, Operations, and customer-facing organizations.

## Preferred qualifications
- Advanced degree in Engineering Management or Systems Engineering.
- Prior military experience in aviation maintenance, logistics, or program management with exposure to configuration management.
- Experience managing fleet-wide software or hardware update campaigns.
- Familiarity with V-BAT, fixed-wing UAS, or other unmanned aircraft systems.
- Experience with PLM, ERP, or configuration tracking platforms.
- Understanding of contractual configuration requirements in government contracts (FFP, CPFF, OTA).

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