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Configuration and Document Control Specialist
Job Location:
Job Location:
Torrance, CA - USA
Hourly Salary:
USD 26 - 41
Hourly Salary:
Posted:
10 October 2026 (Yesterday)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
8 January 2027
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Intellisense Systems Inc.is a privately held Southern California-based technology innovator with a proven track record of developing and deploying innovative products that successfully operate in the most extreme environments. We solve tough mission-critical challenges for our customers in the aerospace defense and commercial markets delivering the full data continuum from sensing and embedded processing to video integration displays and data/video recording and storage for airborne and ground vehicle platforms. Our portfolio also includes environmental and maritime sensing and smart power management systems engineered to the highest levels of safety certification and built with embedded cybersecurity and advanced encryption capabilities.
We are seeking an exceptional Configuration & Document Control Specialistto join our Quality Assurance Team in our Contracts and Admin Department. You will own the engineering change order (ECO) process from initiation through release and administer our Product Data Management (PDM) vault to ensure drawings specifications and related documentation remain accurate controlled and readily accessible. Drawing creation and drawing origination remain with the engineering divisions. This role is central to maintaining data integrity across Engineering Manufacturing and Quality and directly supports our AS9100-compliant configuration and document control processes. You will also use SOLIDWORKS to make minor drawing updates in support of approved changes. Prior experience with a PDM or PLM system (e.g. SOLIDWORKS PDM Arena Agile Windchill) is required; experience administering vault structure workflows or user permissions is a plus. This position is structured as a development path to Configuration Manager: as you build proficiency you will take on progressively broader configuration management responsibilities across hardware and software configuration items.
Location: Torrance CA (Onsite)
Responsibilities:
Requirements:
Please Note:Job responsibilities within our organization are dynamic. This may not be a complete list of duties. Other responsibilities and duties may be assigned by your supervisor or upper management at any time.
Compensation: $26 - $41 hour (Base pay for this position will vary based on your skills qualifications and experience)
Benefits:
The unique culture at Intellisense offers the entrepreneurial spirit of a smaller company with the support and expertise of a larger organization. We are looking for individuals that have a wide breadth of experience while also being subject matter experts in their respectivefield.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application interviewing completing any pre-employment testing or otherwise participating in the employee selection process please contact us by phone at or by email atemailprotected
Unless otherwise stated in the requirements section of an individual job listing our positions require U.S. Citizenship U.S. Permanent Residency or other status as a U.S. Person as defined by 8 USC 1324b(a)(3). Intellisense Systems Inc is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race sex color religion national origin age disability veteran status genetic data or other legally protected status.
REQ #26049
We are seeking an exceptional Configuration & Document Control Specialistto join our Quality Assurance Team in our Contracts and Admin Department. You will own the engineering change order (ECO) process from initiation through release and administer our Product Data Management (PDM) vault to ensure drawings specifications and related documentation remain accurate controlled and readily accessible. Drawing creation and drawing origination remain with the engineering divisions. This role is central to maintaining data integrity across Engineering Manufacturing and Quality and directly supports our AS9100-compliant configuration and document control processes. You will also use SOLIDWORKS to make minor drawing updates in support of approved changes. Prior experience with a PDM or PLM system (e.g. SOLIDWORKS PDM Arena Agile Windchill) is required; experience administering vault structure workflows or user permissions is a plus. This position is structured as a development path to Configuration Manager: as you build proficiency you will take on progressively broader configuration management responsibilities across hardware and software configuration items.
Location: Torrance CA (Onsite)
Responsibilities:
- Administer and maintain the PDM vault including folder structure file states workflows revision schemes and user access permissions.
- Process engineering change requests and orders (ECRs/ECOs/ECNs) from initiation through disposition ensuring proper routing approvals and timely release and track implementation of approved changes to closure.
- Review incoming change requests for completeness and accuracy and coordinate with Engineering Manufacturing and Quality to resolve discrepancies prior to release.
- Support change impact analysis by compiling affected drawings BOMs and documentation for Engineering review.
- Make minor drawing updates in SOLIDWORKS (e.g. notes title and revision blocks incorporation of approved redlines) in accordance with approved change orders and route updated drawings through the PDM workflow for check and release.
- Serve as change coordinator for Change Control Board (CCB) meetings: prepare agendas record decisions and action items and verify that approved changes are implemented correctly.
- Maintain configuration status accounting records for assigned configuration items including released baselines current revision status and change effectivity.
- Maintain document control of drawings specifications BOMs work instructions and related records in accordance with the AS9100 Quality Management System.
- Ensure proper revision control part numbering and traceability of released documentation.
- Perform check-in/check-out administration data migrations and periodic vault audits to identify and correct data integrity issues.
- Generate and distribute change order status reports and metrics (e.g. cycle time open ECOs aging) to stakeholders and leadership.
- Train and support internal users on PDM vault navigation check-in/check-out procedures and the change order process.
- Support internal and customer audits including Functional and Physical Configuration Audits (FCA/PCA) by retrieving and presenting controlled documentation and change history as requested.
- Collaborate with IT and Engineering to troubleshoot vault issues and support system upgrades or migrations as needed.
- Maintain obsolete/superseded documentation archives per record retention requirements.
- This position requires access to US Export Controlled Information.
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent required; Associates or Bachelors degree a plus.
- 2 years of experience in document control configuration management or a documentation specialist role preferably in an aerospace defense or manufacturing environment.
- Hands-on experience with a PDM or PLM system (e.g. SOLIDWORKS PDM Arena Agile Windchill) required; vault administration experience strongly preferred.
- Working knowledge of engineering change order (ECO/ECN) processes and revision control practices.
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings BOMs and specifications.
- Working knowledge of SOLIDWORKS sufficient to make minor drawing updates; familiarity with ASME Y14 drawing standards a plus.
- Familiarity with AS9100 or ISO 9001 document control and configuration management requirements and with CM standards such as EIA-649 and MIL-HDBK-61 is a plus.
- Strong organizational skills and high attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple concurrent change orders.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel Word Outlook); ERP/MRP system experience a plus.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work cross-functionally with Engineering Manufacturing and Quality.
- Interest in growing into a Configuration Manager role; exposure to software version control (e.g. Git/Gitea) or CM certification (e.g. CMPIC) a plus.
- The freedom to take risks to innovate and to be rewarded.
- Partner with trusting leadership that approaches tasks and requests with urgency.
- Deliver products that are continually recognized as industry disruptors.
Please Note:Job responsibilities within our organization are dynamic. This may not be a complete list of duties. Other responsibilities and duties may be assigned by your supervisor or upper management at any time.
Benefits:
- 4 Weeks PTO a year (including 40 hours of PTO your first day)
- 10 paid holidays
- 401(k) with 100% employer matching up to 5% of salary (no vesting period)
- Multiple options for Medical Vision DentalInsurance plans
- Health Savings Accounts
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Tuition Assistance (30% of Tuition with a minimum qualifying grade)
- 100% Paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 100% Paid Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
- 100% Paid Workers Compensation Insurance
- Voluntary Life Insurance
The unique culture at Intellisense offers the entrepreneurial spirit of a smaller company with the support and expertise of a larger organization. We are looking for individuals that have a wide breadth of experience while also being subject matter experts in their respectivefield.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application interviewing completing any pre-employment testing or otherwise participating in the employee selection process please contact us by phone at or by email atemailprotected
Unless otherwise stated in the requirements section of an individual job listing our positions require U.S. Citizenship U.S. Permanent Residency or other status as a U.S. Person as defined by 8 USC 1324b(a)(3). Intellisense Systems Inc is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race sex color religion national origin age disability veteran status genetic data or other legally protected status.
REQ #26049
Required Experience:
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Intellisense Systems, Inc. designs advanced sensing technology that support a full data continuum. Learn more about our end-to-end process.
