Senior PLM Windchill Process Architect

Location: North Prairie

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The Senior PLM Windchill Process Architect at Generac is instrumental in driving engineering productivity and effectiveness through the ongoing assessment and enhancement of CAD/PLM systems company-wide. This role is dedicated to optimizing CAD/PLM tools to streamline engineering design, analysis, product development, and product maintenance processes. The Senior PLM Process Adoption Lead identifies opportunities for improving CAD/PLM systems and processes, develops strategic plans to meet current and future system requirements, manages software upgrades, and provides guidance on necessary computer training.

This position also plays a key role in delivering training on current CAD/PLM systems. This position is responsible for architecting systems, developing systems, mentoring staff and providing training with respect to various current CAD/PLM systems.

The role reports to the Director of Global Engineering Systems.

Additional Information:

A large-scale PLM initiative is just getting underway at Generac, a rapidly growing company. We have implemented PTC Windchill and Process Standardization at 3 of the 6 divisions and have a plan to do the same at all divisions over the next several years. At the same time, we will also be expanding product development capabilities to generate enormous efficiency opportunities wherever Generac product is being worked on.

So, this is an exciting opportunity for you to leverage your knowledge to make a very large impact and to implement PLM on a large global scale at dozens of sites. If you have been a PLM person, this could be your dream job. Please consider joining this growing team at this top company. If you are a PLM expert and love helping other PLM users to get the most out of their use of the PLM processes, please apply for this role.

If you are driven and love making a difference, we could be a great fit for you.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Analyze engineering system information requirements and product specifications to understand technical content strategy and plan to create and deliver written and/or visual product-related information including various types of guides (automated templates and best practices), and online information (interactive demos, help systems) integrated into product, for a variety of audiences (general engineering users, systems administrators, and engineering training developers).Responsible for implementing and supporting the internal tools and systems environment that supports a forward-thinking product development group using PDM/PLM and other software tools for CAD data and engineering documentation management.

Work closely with engineering teams to implement customized CAD/PLM workflows to support engineering data management solutions and process improvements.

Implements system upgrades and coordinates training programs and responsible for the development of technical documentation relative to new engineering systems and tools.

Develop practices and processes aligned to enhancing the performance and efficiencies of the Engineering Systems tools

Adhere to and help improve support related procedures

Work as part of a team to share skill sets, lessons and technical knowledge to maintain a well-rounded technical support team.

Contribute to technical support documentation

Subject matter expert in the tools used by our Engineering community

Monitor competitive environment and be prepared to respond to changes in the market

Logically and efficiently analyze, test and diagnose CAD systems to isolate problems and report if necessary.

Serve as the Business Lead and focal point representing the business in the deployment of PLM.Participate in Process Work streams to ensure business requirements are addressed and included in plans.

Develop new techniques, practices and processes utilizing new and existing technologies to enhance…