Senior Configuration Management Specialist

About Burns:

Burns Engineering provides professional engineering design and project management services for transportation, facilities, and infrastructure projects. We help our clients attain their strategic goals and initiatives through successful large-scale infrastructure projects. Burns' full-service capabilities include mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, transportation, and energy consulting engineering.

Recently voted a Top Workplace by Philly.com, we credit our strength as an organization to our talented, driven, vibrant team. Burns is an ENR Top 500 Firm, and has been named an MEP Giant by Consulting-Specifying Engineer Magazine, as well as a Hot Firm by Zweig. We are industry experts, proven leaders, innovative thinkers, and team players. We put our clients' successes and best interests first, because their success is our success. We have fun at work because we love making a difference in the world. We are looking for high-energy, bright, collaborative individuals who want the opportunity to "write their own story" with us.

Railroad & Transit Team

Burns provides design and construction solutions to help maintain, improve, and expand the nation's railroad and transit infrastructure. We have designed the implementation of critical programs across the country, and support the renewed emphasis on a public transit-oriented lifestyle.

Burns is currently seeking a Sr. Configuration Management Specialist to join our Railroad & Transit team in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Summary

Under direct supervision of the project manager, and with the cooperation and guidance of other ranking technical staff, provide for configuration management of software and system engineering deliverables. Additionally, provide the setup, training, and maintenance of configuration management tools and processes.

Essential Duties & Responsbilities

• Evaluate existing configuration management tools and processes for optimization.
• Creation and maintenance of CM processess for both project and organizational level.
• Communicate process and tool improvement needs within the organization.
• Coordinate with suppliers of configuration management solutions to right-size the proper processes for the engineering group.
• Lead the configuration management, and lifecycle management, activities relative to software developent and system engineering practices.
• Generation of group and project level templates to optimize future deliverables.
• Provide for training and support of configuration management solutions within the oranization
• Support project teams in identification of configuration items and management needs.
• Support clients with configuration management review and solution identification.
• Performs work in the timeframe and budget allotted.

Education & Qualfications

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university accredited program, and 10 years' work history.
• Must have at least 5 years prior experience leading configuration management within an engineering organization.
• Railroad and/or public mass transit industry is considered a plus.

• College-level English (Excellent level of written and spoken English).

• Ability to "translate" engineering to common language. Comprehend and apply general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations composed in English.

• Author reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Present information and respond to questions from groups peers, managers, and clients.