ACARA Jobs
Configuration Management Change Specialist
Apply- ID: 560498
- Posted: 6/2/2026
- Location: San Jose, CA
- Category: IT - Project Management/IS
- Job Type: Temporary
- Duration: 3 - 6 Months
Description
Job Title: Configuration Management Change Specialist
Location: San Jose, CA
Employment: Contract (6 months)
Industry: Manufacturing
Compensation: $38.33 - $42.16/hr
Schedule: 40 hours /week
About the Opportunity:
- Context client produces some of the most complex systems in the world, working with challenging time to market needs.
- To meet customer demands for the latest technologies, client employs concurrent engineering, developing systems and supply chains in parallel with system specifications.
- In this context, the CM Expert at client defines, improves and executes configuration management processes within the team in three primary domains: change management (including customer communication), requirements engineering, and product configuration, definition & Bill of Materials management.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
- This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
- Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- These domains also include related tooling and support for various user groups.
- CM Expert enables client to safeguard the consistency and integrity of all configuration baselines of our products by defining and providing CM capabilities.
- In doing so, CM empowers client to know the exact configuration of our products at any given moment to pro-actively and re-actively communicate and respond to customers.
- CM expert empowers the client design community to properly capture the needs of customers & stakeholders and translate those into requirements that determine the functionality and performance that should be in client products, while capturing knowledge and supporting business continuity.
- CM expert empowers the client design community to specify the hardware & software that must be integrated and assembled in client factories in order to deliver the required performance and functionality to customers.
- Failure of these empowerments leads to unknown & unwanted configurations which can lead to unexpected behavior or unplanned machine down-time, high costs for client and harms client's credibility as market leader.
- The CM Expert role has a global client focus, serving all client business lines, sectors and locations.
- Responsibilities Stakeholder Management & Interfaces Proactively engage with relevant stakeholders in- and outside own team (e.g., CM architect, CM process key users, and others); ensure compliance and contribute to improvement projects.
- Domain Intervention Independently execute CM processes; proactively suggest improvements based on user needs and participate in projects.
- Process Contribute to process design and verification independently; join projects for new processes and improvements.
- Tools & Applications Write requirements for improvements; validate solutions with end users and participate in tool (improvement) projects.
- Metrics/KPI Report KPI trends; contribute to projects improving metrics and dashboards.
Job Requirements
What You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's Degree
- 3+ years of experience in PLM and ERP systems (myChange, SAP) in the area of Change Management, Engineering, Production or Materials Management.
- 3+ years of experience in least one Configuration Management domain.
- 3+ years of experience in business process improvement, preferably in configuration management or in systems engineering in a product/process development context.
What Sets You Apart:
- Masters Degree
- Familiar with security, safety and regulatory compliance.
- Knowledge Transfer Deliver and continuously improve content for knowledge transfer materials.
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.