CAD Application Lead – PTC Creo

CAD Application Lead – PTC Creo

The CAD Application Lead – PTC Creo, is the enterprise owner and hands-on authority for PTC Creo within company's mechanical engineering environment. This role is responsible for enterprise-wide configuration, administration, and day-to-day enablement of Creo, and for establishing and enforcing CAD standards, best practices, and consistent usage across the organization.

This position requires deep, hands-on experience using PTC Creo as a primary mechanical CAD tool and strong functional experience using Windchill PLM within an engineering environment and must be highly proficient in using Windchill as an engineer including managing CAD data, maintaining product structures, understanding lifecycle states, and executing standard release workflows in a PLM-managed environment.

This is an advanced mechanical CAD and product development experience. The CAD Application Lead operates in a customer-facing engineering environment, providing mentoring, coaching, and just-in-time training to the engineering end users to improve design efficiency, CAD data quality, and standards adherence.

This position encompasses five primary areas of responsibility:

• Enterprise Creo Application Management/Administration (Primary Focus)
• Mechanical engineering teams and sites. Act as the enterprise subject matter expert and owner for PTC Creo, with responsibility for how Creo is used across settings. parameters/attributes, model properties, naming conventions, configuration files, and launch scripts/environment.
• Own and maintain Creo configuration elements including start parts/templates, drawing formats, symbol libraries, of Creo usage configuration and standards.
• Coordinate version alignment, patching, and upgrade readiness with IT and external vendors while retaining ownership
• CAD Standards, Governance, and Best Practices Ensure consistent Creo behavior, performance optimization practices, and application stability.
• Define, document, and enforce enterprise Creo modeling and drawing standards.
• Establish best practices for parametric modeling, complex geometry, large assemblies, and drawing quality.
• Drive disciplined adoption of standards across engineering teams.
• PLM Knowledge & Engineering Business Process Mentoring
• Demonstrate strong functional proficiency using Windchill PLM from an engineering user perspective.
• Apply Windchill knowledge to ensure correct CAD data usage, revisions, lifecycle states, and release readiness as it relates to Creo and other CAD tools.
• Mentoring engineers with proper usage of CAD-PLM workflows (e.g., check-in/out, revisions, structures, metadata ( expectations).
• Partner with PLM and Engineering Systems stakeholders as a knowledgeable consumer of Windchill, not as a system administrator or configuration owner.
• Customer-Facing User Enablement (Mentoring & Training).
• Serve as the escalation point for advanced Creo usage issues.
• Coach users on efficient, standards-compliant practices and provide hands-on mentoring and ad-hoc training focused on Creo, with Windchill usage reinforced as part of standard engineering workflows.
• Develop standard work, job aid, and quick-reference materials supporting CAD usage in a PLM-managed environment.
• Facilitate internal enablement sessions to reinforce best practices and standard adoption.
• Cross-Functional and Multi-CAD Support
• Support engineering teams operating in a multi-CAD environment.
• Partner with PLM and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure consistent CAD-PLM workflows and release readiness.
• Ensure CAD outputs meet downstream Manufacturing, Quality, and operational requirements.
• Participate in evaluation of CAD system enhancements and productivity improvements.
• Maintains awareness of the relevance and importance of activities and how each contributes to achieving quality objectives. Understands the importance of ensuring customer quality standards are met.
• Responsibilities may include the selection of special characteristics, setting quality objectives and related training, corrective and preventive actions, product design and development, capacity analysis, logistics information, customer scorecards,…