2027 Entry Level - Configuration Management Specialist

About the role

As a Textron employee, you’ll take on meaningful work from day one—contributing to real projects and collaborating with experienced team members across the business. This entry-level opportunity is designed to help you build your skills, gain exposure across functions, and grow through hands-on experience, mentorship, and development opportunities. At Bell, a subsidiary of Textron, we dare to live on the edge of possibility. From supporting NASA’s first lunar mission to pioneering advanced tiltrotor systems, we redefine flight to make a real-world impact. Whether flying individuals to safety or protecting our troops, every team member at Bell is a part of something greater. It’s time to make your mark on the future of aviation. Go beyond the impossible and join the Flight Club.

Day in the Life of a Configuration Management Specialist We are looking for inquisitive and driven students with a passion to innovate. In this role you will work with engineering, program management, and customers to meet aircraft certification and specification requirements. You will review new and revised engineering designs to verify they follow Bell processes and procedures prior to upload or release. You will manage engineering data correction, consolidation, or system migration to support Bell’s aircraft.

Responsibilities

• Manage Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL), Sub-contract Data Requirements List (SDRL), and Data Item Deliverable (DID) requirements.
• Execute the change process, configuration management, data management, and product-related data maintained in the Product Life Management (PLM) system.
• Determine and apply the proper data marking to deliverable information and ensure adherence to contract scope and export regulations.
• Monitor the stability and health of the Engineering Bill-of-Material and Planning Bill-of-Material for the assigned program and provide feedback to data owners regarding data issues.
• Establish and maintain good working relationships with internal Bell and external customers (USG, regulatory agencies, partners, OEMs, and suppliers).
• Coordinate with contracts organization and customers regarding new or changing requirements.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and provide specific direction to data owners to ensure compliance.
• Monitor engineering release and provide appropriate and compliant data submittals to requesting or contracting customers.
• Review program engineering configuration control methodology and variations in the PLM system and provide specific direction to data owners that will prevent process or system issues and ensure proper standards and quality are established and maintained.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree or higher required
• Preferred Business Management experience or 0-2 years of experience working with data management, engineering data / data systems.
• Preferred familiarity with CATIA or SOLIDWORKS or ENOVIA or similar PLM/PDM.
• Good interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Ability to work effectively within a team.
• Ability to prioritize a variety of assignments on varying timelines.
• Available to work full time, onsite starting in January 2027

Skills

• Understanding of roles, tasks, policies and procedures required to execute the change process, configuration management, data management, and product-related data maintained in PLM system.
• Practical knowledge of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and associated markings.
• Knowledge of U.S. export control (EAR/ITAR) regulations.
• Familiarity with the Configuration Management principles and methods contained in ANSI/EIA‑649B, ISO 10007, and MIL-HDBK-6