Configuration Manager

The Role

As Configuration Manager, you establish, maintain, and govern the integrity of the product definition throughout the complete system lifecycle — ensuring that engineering artifacts, product baselines, development releases, and project evidence remain controlled, traceable, reproducible, and auditable.

You translate configuration management principles into practical project execution: configuration identification, configuration control, baseline and release governance, change impact management, configuration status accounting, and configuration verification through objective evidence.

Operating at the intersection of systems engineering, project planning, release management, quality assurance, functional safety, cybersecurity, and domain engineering, you provide objective visibility into project maturity, delivery readiness, assessment readiness, and engineering execution quality.

What You Bring (Qualifications)

Required

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in configuration management, systems engineering, release management, quality engineering, project engineering, or related roles in automotive, embedded systems, safety-critical product development, or complex systems engineering environments.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering, configuration management, change management, release management, requirements management, and project maturity governance.
• Solid knowledge of configuration management principles: configuration identification, configuration control, baseline management, change control, status accounting, configuration verification, and audit readiness.
• Knowledge of ASPICE, ISO 26262, ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288, ISO/SAE 21434, and relevant engineering governance frameworks.
• Practical experience creating or operating configuration management plans, configuration item lists, baseline records, release documentation, configuration status reports, and readiness dashboards.
• Experience integrating configuration management with project schedules, development milestones, sample phases, release plans, customer deliveries, assessments, and maturity reviews.
• Experience with JAMA, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, Jira, SAP/PLM, Git-based repositories, or comparable engineering lifecycle management tools.
• Ability to define pragmatic naming conventions, repository structures, baseline labels, release identifiers, access rules, review structures, and traceability practices across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Experience supporting audits, ASPICE assessments, safety or cybersecurity reviews, customer reviews, or internal governance reviews with clear configuration evidence and status reporting.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Preferred

• Experience in battery systems, power electronics, embedded software, automotive electronics, or low-voltage energy systems.
• German language skills.

What You’ll Do (Impact Areas)

• Own the CM plan & governance: develop and maintain the project Configuration Management Plan — CM strategy, governance model, tailoring, repositories, configuration item structure, baseline strategy, review points, and approval criteria.
• Define & control configuration items: define and maintain the complete Configuration Item (CI) structure and project CI List across systems, software, electronics, mechanical, test, safety, cybersecurity, quality, project planning, and release documentation.
• Manage baselines & releases: establish and maintain project baselines (creation, review, approval, freezing, release, reproducibility, documentation); perform release readiness assessments before customer deliveries, development releases, assessment baselines, sample builds, and major reviews; and prevent uncontrolled changes to approved baselines.
• Support change control: coordinate cross-functional impact analysis for Change Control Boards, ensuring approved changes are documented, implemented, verified, traceable, and reflected consistently across affected baselines and work products.
• Govern tools & data integrity: govern configuration usage across JAMA, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, SAP, Jira, and related engineering systems, maintaining consistency between approved processes and tool implementations.
• Report status & maturity: maintain configuration status accounting across all baselines and generate status reports, dashboards, maturity views, and release readiness evidence for project leadership — including leading indicators such as baseline completion, configuration debt, traceability coverage, and assessment readiness.
• Assess maturity & gate milestones: operate a Configuration Maturity Assessment framework, conduct configuration readiness reviews, and provide objective go/no-go recommendations for milestone approval, postponement, or escalation — verifying that milestone exit criteria reflect actual engineering maturity, not administrative task completion.
• Enable audits & assessments: support ASPICE, ISO 26262, cybersecurity, quality, and customer assessments by preparing objective audit evidence, supporting corrective actions, and driving baseline integrity and evidence completeness.
• Drive continuous improvement: improve CM practices, templates, reporting, dashboards, tool usage, and cross-functional execution discipline.

Decision Authority

• Recommend approval, postponement, or escalation of project baselines and milestone progression based on defined configuration maturity, release readiness, and approval criteria.
• Request corrective actions where configuration integrity, traceability, evidence completeness, or baseline reproducibility is compromised.
• Initiate and coordinate release readiness reviews for development releases, customer deliveries, assessment baselines, and major project milestones.
• Escalate gaps that jeopardize customer audits, ASPICE assessments, functional safety assessments, cybersecurity reviews, or committed project deliveries.

What Success Looks Like

• Controlled, documented, and reproducible project baselines for every defined release and assessment event.
• Complete traceability from requirements and engineering work products to released product configurations.
• Zero uncontrolled or undocumented releases, and no unauthorized changes to approved baselines.
• Configuration maturity assessments completed for all planned milestones, releases, customer deliveries, and assessment baselines, with objective readiness evaluations before each milestone review and release decision.
• ASPICE, functional safety, cybersecurity, quality, and customer assessments successfully supported through complete baseline and evidence packages.
• Timely reporting — and early escalation — of configuration maturity, risks, gaps, and readiness issues that could impact schedule, releases, assessments, or customer deliveries.

Core Competencies

• Configuration management discipline: identification, control, baseline management, change control, status accounting, verification, and audit readiness.
• Systems engineering, release management, requirements management, and project maturity governance.
• Command of ASPICE, ISO 26262, ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288, and ISO/SAE 21434 governance frameworks.
• Strong ownership mindset, with the discipline to maintain structure, consistency, and follow-through in complex project environments.
• Leading through influence across global, cross-functional teams without direct line authority.
• Structured, analytical, systems-oriented thinking — spotting dependencies, inconsistencies, maturity gaps, and release risks.
• Confident facilitation of reviews, status meetings, baseline discussions, and escalation paths.
• Pragmatic problem-solving that balances process compliance, execution needs, and customer delivery pressure.

Key Interfaces

• Engineering Project Lead, Program Manager, Systems Engineering Lead, Software Project Manager, and discipline engineering leads.
• Software, electronics, mechanical, test, verification, validation, functional safety, cybersecurity, and quality teams.
• Advanced Quality Engineer, Release Manager, Change Manager, Engineering Operations, process champions, and tool owners.
• Suppliers, external engineering partners, customer-facing project representatives, and assessment or audit stakeholders as required.

About Clarios

Clarios is the global leader in advanced, low-voltage battery technologies for mobility. Our batteries and smart solutions power nearly every type of vehicle and are found in 1 of 3 cars on the road today. With around 18,000 employees in over 100 countries, we bring deep expertise to our Aftermarket and OEM partners, and reliability, safety and comfort to everyday lives. We answer to the planet with a rigorous sustainability focus – advancing best-in-class sustainability practices and advocating for them across our industry. We work to ensure 100% of our products sold are recyclable, and we recycle 8,000 batteries an hour in our network. You can find more information here (PDF). 

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