Product Lifecycle Management Engineer

The Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Engineer is responsible for the implementation, administration, and continuous improvement of engineering system and process capability required to reach the new product growth targets for Moen, Therma Tru, Master Lock, and other Fortune Brands Innovations companies.

Scope of work includes support and development of CAD/Engineering Software and PLM system Forutune Brands Innovations Global Product Development (PD) department. The PD Systems include CAD/engineering systems, Project Management Systems, and integrations. Through a combination of targeted technology utilization, greater system integration, and process improvements, the global PD organizations will realize substantial improvements in speed, efficiency and effectiveness of the CAD/engineering environment, and other PD Systems.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise necessary for establishing and maintaining complex applications, processes, enhancements, and environments to support product development engineering groups in PDM/PLM, CAD, ERP and Project Management systems for large global user group spanning North America, Europe, and Asia.
• Responsible for engineering change control integration and other process improvements to eliminate waste, improve product development productivity, and incremental changes to continuously improve speed to market.
• Create reference materials and training documents to communicate and reinforce best practice processes and standards.
• Implement the architecture and configuration of engineering process improvements required to drive the achievement of strategic and business objectives in product development and manufacturing such as PLM (3DExperience) workflow designs and configuration, external collaboration enablement, and PLM-CAD-ERP system integration of tools and processes. Lead integrating new initiatives with existing processes and ensure that all processes leverage cross system synergies.
• Deliver necessary and scheduled maintenance of product development engineering software, tools, and system upgrades for product development groups, such as; 3DExperience, SolidWorks and related simulation tools, DriveWorks, and Project Management Systems.
• Support the business through issue resolutions and proactive exploration of methods to improve reliability, efficiency, and usability.
• Lead external consultants, vendors, and other IT management and staff to manage complex project initiatives.
• Identify issues that will delay on-time product development project delivery; create and implement solutions to resolve and prevent identified issues.
• Responsible for production releases of new engineering system designs and enhancements including but not limited to; regression testing, go-live scheduling, user training programs, and post launch support.

Requirements

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is required.
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in engineering and/or product development including 2 years supporting and implementing CAD/Engineering tools in a distributed global organization is required.
• Minimum of 2 years of related experience in Product Lifecycle Management, specifically data migration, upgrades, interoperability with various CAD tools, workflows, and data management preferably with 3DExperience and SolidWorks.
• Expertise in engineering change control processes connected to a distributed manufacturing environment, linking engineering PLM systems with manufacturing ERP systems.
• Experience working with and driving solutions in varied set of Product Development Systems including CAD/PLM, Project and Portfolio Management, workflows, and collaboration

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ability to customize 3D Experience using Java or other programming languages as needed
• Skills in integrating data from various sources using SQL.
• Experience with Product Development and Stage-Gate methodology
• Experience with Project Management processes and systems like MS Project/Project Online/SharePoint/Office 365, MS Power Platform
• Experience with ERP software, SAP and/or Oracle
• Excellent engineering technology troubleshooting skills, and ability to learn new tools, skills and environments quickly.
• High level of communication and inter-personal skills with the ability to collaborate with people at all levels and functions of the organization.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills, technical writing experience, and procedure / instruction writing experience.
• Must possess excellent organizational skills and be able to deal with fluctuating priorities; be a self-starter and work with minimum supervision.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to approximately 15% of the time, both domestically and internationally