CAD Systems Administrator

Reporting to the Continuous Improvement Manager in Production Engineering, the Global Engineering Systems Administrator serves as Engineering's functional administrator, platform owner, and technical subject matter expert for G&W Electric’s mechanical and electrical design platforms, including Creo Parametric, EPLAN, related visualization tools, and associated integrations with Windchill and downstream business systems. The role works directly with engineers, designers, manufacturing users, and site representatives to understand needs, resolve functional issues, improve workflows, increase adoption, and ensure that engineering platforms deliver measurable value.

The position owns Engineering-side application administration, configuration, functional testing, user enablement, engineering standards, application usage, and continuous improvement, and partners with IT and other enterprise support functions where infrastructure, security, deployment, integration, licensing, vendor governance, or technology lifecycle support is required.

• Serve as Engineering's functional administrator, platform owner, and technical subject matter expert for Creo Parametric, EPLAN Electric P8, EPLAN Pro Panel, and applicable visualization tools, with accountability for functional performance, usability, adoption, and measurable Engineering value.
• Establish and maintain regular engagement with engineers, designers, manufacturing users, and site liaisons to identify needs, gather feedback, resolve functional issues, prioritize improvements, communicate changes, and evaluate user satisfaction and adoption; translate insights into platform enhancements, standard work, user guidance, and role-based training.
• Own Engineering functional requirements and business-process outcomes for interfaces between Creo/EPLAN and Windchill, ERP, manufacturing applications, and related Engineering systems. Lead functional testing, troubleshooting, data validation, and user acceptance, coordinating with IT, PLM administration, and other responsible technical teams for integration architecture, development, monitoring, and production support.
• Define and maintain Engineering application configuration standards, templates, libraries, functional settings, and requirements. Ensure that supported versions, deployment methods, access models, workstation specifications, and enterprise technology standards meet Engineering workflow, performance, usability, and business-continuity needs; coordinate implementation with the appropriate enterprise support teams.
• Lead technical work streams and continuous-improvement initiatives related to engineering platforms; partner with an assigned project manager for schedules, organizational coordination, and change-management activities on major implementations.
• Own Engineering functional readiness for application upgrades and releases, including requirements, configuration validation, regression testing, user acceptance, communications, training, adoption support, and release readiness.
• Monitor software usage and license demand, provide forecasts and budget inputs, and coordinate enterprise deployment, infrastructure, security, licensing and commercial, and change-management activities with IT and other responsible support functions.
• Develop and maintain the Engineering systems functional roadmap based on user needs, business priorities, process performance, platform capabilities, standardization opportunities, adoption, technical risk, and lifecycle requirements. Align the roadmap with engineers, manufacturing stakeholders, site liaisons, PLM administration, IT, vendors, and leadership as appropriate.
• Administer Engineering-controlled library content, configuration, synchronization, naming…