US_West | Product​/System & PLM Engineer_L

Role Overview

Windchill+ Functional Consultant (10+ Years Experience) – Santa Clara, CA (On Site)

• Lead as‑is / to‑be process mapping across Engineering, Change Control, Document Control, Configuration Management, and Manufacturing collaboration.
• Define functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and traceability matrices aligned to PLM strategy.
• Design Windchill+ configurations (life cycles, workflows, soft types, attributes, UI policies, classification, search) that reflect standardized global processes.
• Facilitate design workshops, fit‑gap analysis, and best‑practice harmonization across sites/business units.
• Define roles, ACLs, contexts, and policies that support data governance and compliance.

• Shape functional design for CAD integrations with Windchill+.
• Creo (preferred), Solid Works, NX, AutoCAD.
• Define CAD–WTPart association strategy, family tables/variants, naming/versioning conventions, and visualization.

• Define change processes (ECR/ECO/ECN), routing rules, roles, and KPI tracking.
• Establish configuration management practices (baselines, effectivity, options/variants) aligned to the product model.

• Lead data discovery and functional mapping (documents, CAD, WTParts, attributes, classifications).
• Create data quality rules and validation scenarios; collaborate on migration cycles, UAT, and sign‑offs.

• Build test scripts, lead UAT, and manage defect triage from a functional standpoint.
• Develop training materials, role‑based playbooks, and conduct end‑user enablement sessions.
• Drive change management and adoption through communications and stakeholder engagement.

• Engineering degree with 10+ years in PLM functional consulting with strong focus on Windchill/Windchill+.
• Demonstrated process mapping experience and delivery of to‑be PLM operating models.
• Hands‑on involvement in Windchill/Windchill+ implementations, preferably including greenfield or major transformation programs.
• Proven experience with CAD integrations to Windchill (minimum: Creo; plus: Solid Works/NX/AutoCAD).

• Deep understanding of:
• WTParts, CAD Data Management, Document Control.
• Change Management (ECR/ECO/ECN), Life cycles, Workflows.
• Classification, Search, Soft Types, Attributes.
• EBOM management and EBOM–MBOM handoff.
• Visualization and publishing (Creo View), model check guidelines.

• 4-5
• CAD integrations to Windchill (minimum: Creo; plus: Solid Works/NX/AutoCAD). WTParts, CAD Data Management, Document Control.
• Change Management (ECR/ECO/ECN), Life cycles, Workflows.
• Classification, Search, Soft Types, Attributes.
• EBOM management and EBOM–MBOM handoff.
• Visualization and publishing (Creo View), model check guidelines.