Director, Configuration Management

The posting, as Beehive Industries wrote it

Beehive Industries is dedicated to Powering American Defense by revolutionizing the design, development, and delivery of jet propulsion systems to support the warfighter. Through the integration of additive manufacturing, the company aims to meet the growing and urgent needs for unmanned aerial defense by dramatically improving a jet engine’s speed to market, fuel efficiency, and cost.

Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, with additional facilities in Knoxville, Tennessee, Loveland Ohio, and Mount Vernon, Ohio. Beehive is committed to grow and advance the defense industrial base while manufacturing exclusively in the USA. This role will be located at our Loveland, Ohio facility.

Role Overview
The Director Configuration Management Leader is responsible for leading the engineering configuration management function while remaining deeply involved in day-to-day execution. This player-coach role combines people leadership, team development, workload prioritization, and functional strategy with a substantial individual contributor workload. The leader will establish the processes, governance, and controls required to maintain product configuration integrity throughout development and production.
Serving as the organization’s configuration management subject matter expert, this leader ensures product requirements, technical data, baselines, and approved changes remain accurate, traceable, and compliant. The successful candidate will partner across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and program teams while applying configuration discipline in a practical, scalable way that fits a fast-paced, evolving start-up environment.

What You’ll Do...

• Lead the engineering configuration management function, including responsibility for team direction, workload prioritization, performance management, coaching, development, and capability building.
• Lead and execute a strategic approach and process improvements for part numbers, revision control, and piece-part and assembly level management. The right candidate will have a deep understanding of the pros/cons of different approaches to this in industry.
• Establish clear roles, responsibilities, operating rhythms, and performance expectations for the configuration management team.
• Balance leadership responsibilities with a substantial hands-on workload, personally executing critical configuration management activities alongside the team.
• Assess functional capacity, identify capability gaps, and develop staffing, training, tools, and process improvement plans to support business and program needs.
• Assign and prioritize work based on program risk, production needs, technical complexity, and business objectives.
• Provide technical guidance, review team deliverables, remove barriers, and ensure configuration management work is completed accurately and on schedule.
• Build strong working relationships across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain,

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rities without compromising product integrity, compliance, or accountability.

• Ability to lead and develop a technical team while remaining personally accountable for substantial hands-on deliverables.
• Familiarity with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
• Strong written and verbal communication, interpersonal, and technical leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence decisions and drive accountability across functions without relying solely on formal authority.
• Proven ability to establish practical processes that provide appropriate control without creating unnecessary administrative burden.
• Demonstrated problem-solving ability and strong program leadership and execution skills.
• Proven ability to work independently, learn quickly, and operate effectively in fast-paced, cross-functional teams.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

If this sounds like you, please submit an application with your resume. This could be the opportunity you are looking for to expand your skills, contribute to a winning team, and work with talented people who love what they do and take pride in our mission.

Beehive Industries offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes group Medical, Dental, Life, and Short and Long-Term disability coverage from day one. We also offer a generous 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a Company match. Every role at Beehive Industries is bonus eligible and will also receive equity in the company.

Beehive Industries is committed to full compliance with applicable anti-discrimination laws. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We strive to create an inclusive work environment and will not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.