PLM; Product Lifecycle Management) Solution Architect

Position: PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Solution Architect
Location: Lyon Station

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The Opportunity-East Penn is seeking an experienced Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Solution Architect to help shape the future of our product development and digital engineering environment.

This is a highly collaborative, strategic technical role for someone who enjoys connecting engineering, manufacturing, technology, and business processes. You’ll serve as a key technical leader for our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) ecosystem, helping define how product information, engineering processes, and enterprise systems work together across the complete product lifecycle.

Working across Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, IT, and Product Management, you’ll have the opportunity to influence PLM strategy, architecture, governance, integration, and continuous improvement across the organization.

If you enjoy solving complex problems, improving how engineering information flows through an organization, and translating business needs into scalable technology solutions, this role offers the opportunity to make a significant enterprise-wide impact.

Responsibilities What You’ll DoServe as the technical owner and solution architect for East Penn’s PLM ecosystem.

Help define and advance the organization’s PLM strategy, roadmap, architecture, standards, and governance.

Partners with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Product Management, and IT to translate business needs into effective PLM solutions.

Lead PLM implementations, upgrades, migrations, integrations, and optimization initiatives.

Design scalable solutions supporting product structures, bills of material (BOM), document management, engineering change, and configuration management.

Develop integration strategies connecting PLM with enterprise platforms such as ERP, MES, CAD, CRM, quality systems, and data warehouses.

Design and maintain PLM data models, workflows, security structures, and business rules.

Strengthen engineering-change processes, including change requests, approvals, change orders, and product release.

Establish data governance practices that promote accuracy, consistency, traceability, and regulatory compliance.

Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to strengthen digital product development capabilities.

Lead requirements gathering and solution design for new functionality and system enhancements.

Partner with stakeholders to…