Change Management Engineer

JOB SUMMARY

The Change Management Engineer will work inside the Supply Chain Operations Engineering organization to manage and support the process of engineering change. Apptronik needs the ability to change hardware to enable continuous improvement of the reliability of its product lines. This role looks to understand the system-level and operational impacts of a requested change, verify that these are adequately reviewed and vetted, with a primary goal of minimizing risk associated with hardware, software, firmware and/or process change.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES or KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Provide technical review of product line changes, communicate with design engineers, manufacturing engineers, test engineers, supply chain, and contract manufacturers to ensure that all impacts of a requested change are well documented and understood across teams.
• Manage workflow for change requests, ensure that changes are routed, reviewed and approved in a timely manner. Verify adherence to reviews for implementation before critical milestones.
• Help gather documentation, answer questions, and add or remove subscribers and approvers to change requests.
• Assign and track implementation actions for changes with internal and external stakeholders
• Add process and system-level automation and make capability improvements to the existing change management system
• Ensure change requests and change orders are properly documented, escalate changes to leadership if risk is perceived as high or if change is considered high impact.

Develop and monitor risk analysis associated with given change requests.

SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS

• 3+ years’ experience in complex engineering problem solving (design, analysis, manufacturing or test of complex systems)
• High proficiency with basic computer applications (word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, email).

Self-starter and willing to continuously learn new skills to keep up with new technologies and processes

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, science or mathematical discipline.
• 3+ years’ experience using or maintaining PLM and ERP systems (preferably Arena and Microsoft Business Central)

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS 

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times
• Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen
• Hearing and speech to communicate