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Responsibilities
PLM Strategy, Governance & Roadmap
- Business Ownership: Own PLM as a cross-functional business program, ensuring it supports company priorities across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Field Service.
- Roadmap Development: Define and maintain the PLM roadmap, aligning system capabilities and process improvements to business needs, scale requirements, and product lifecycle priorities.
- Leadership Alignment: Drive alignment across functional leaders on priorities, decisions, process standards, and investment needs related to PLM and connected engineering systems ( Colab, SolidWorks, Altium 365 ).
- Governance: Establish decision-making forums, ownership models, and governance processes for PLM enhancements, master data standards, change workflows, and business process adoption.
Cross-Functional Process & Execution Leadership
- Process Design: Partner with stakeholders to design and improve end-to-end lifecycle processes spanning eBOM, mBOM, Service BOM, engineering change management, configuration management, and traceability.
- Program Prioritization: Translate business needs into sequenced workstreams, balancing short-term operational issues with longer-term platform and process maturity goals.
- Change Management: Lead organizational adoption of new PLM workflows, standards, and ways of working; ensure the right teams are engaged early and that changes are durable.
- Gap Identification: Assess process, system, and resource gaps that limit PLM effectiveness, and recommend staffing, workflow, or tooling changes needed to close them.
PLM Systems & Business Value Delivery
- Value Realization: Define success metrics and ensure PLM investments are improving data quality, process efficiency, traceability, change execution, and cross-functional visibility.
- System Partnership: Work closely with the PLM technical lead to translate business priorities into system requirements, feature releases, enhancements, and integration needs.
- Connected Systems Alignment: Help drive alignment across PLM, ERP, WMS, MES, and Salesforce FSM or other downstream systems that depend on accurate product and configuration data.
- Requirements Definition: Write clear business requirements, user stories, and operating needs for developers, administrators, and implementation partners.
Stakeholder Enablement & Operating Rhythm
- Adoption & Training: Support stakeholder readiness, communication, and training for PLM process updates, new capabilities, and role expectations.
- Issue Resolution: Surface and resolve cross-functional blockers that impact data quality, execution speed, system usage, or business outcomes.
- Operating Cadence: Run a clear operating rhythm for roadmap reviews, prioritization, business requirement intake, release readiness, and post-launch adoption follow-through.
Qualifications
- Experience: 8+ years of relevant experience in PLM, engineering systems, configuration management, change management, or engineering operations in a complex hardware or manufacturing environment, including 3–5 years in a managerial or team‑lead capacity. Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field preferred; mechanical engineering background strongly preferred.
- Communication & Influence: Strong communication skills and executive presence, with the ability to influence without direct authority and align technical and business stakeholders.
- PLM Expertise: Deep understanding of PLM principles and lifecycle processes, including eBOM, mBOM, Service BOM, engineering change management, release processes, configuration management, and product traceability.
- Engineering & Operations Fluency: Strong understanding of how physical products are designed, built, changed, and maintained in the field. Ability to connect engineering intent to manufacturing execution and service outcomes.
- System Knowledge: Experience working with PLM platforms such as Enovia / 3DEXPERIENCE, SolidWorks, CATIA, and connected enterprise systems such as ERP, MES, WMS, and service platforms.
- Leadership: Proven track record of leading a team and complex, cross-functional business programs that require stakeholder alignment, prioritization, governance, and process change.
- Requirements & Process Design: Ability to translate business needs into structured requirements, process definitions, operating models, and implementation plans.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Proven ability to work seamlessly across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, service, and IT teams.
- Mindset: High intellectual curiosity, strong learning orientation, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while building practical, scalable solutions.
Success looks like
- Clear Ownership: PLM is operated as a well-defined business program with clear governance, accountable owners, and aligned cross-functional priorities.
- Practical Roadmap Execution: The company has a credible, sequenced PLM roadmap that balances operational needs with long-term scale.
- Strong Adoption: Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Service teams are using PLM-driven processes consistently and effectively.
- Improved Data & Process Health: Product structures, change workflows, and configuration data are more accurate, more timely, and more trusted across systems.
- Business Value Delivery: PLM investments measurably improve traceability, execution speed, process clarity, and lifecycle decision-making.
- Organizational Alignment: Leadership is aligned on priorities, tradeoffs, and resource needs, and PLM work is driven by clear business objectives rather than reactive requests.
