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Job Description
We are looking for Program Manager PLM Windchill who will guide global business process ownership for all PLM processes.
The product lifecycle refers to the progression of a product through its typical 4 stages (introduction, growth, maturity, and decline) as well as more complex processes that occur within these stages such as inception, design, engineering, manufacturing, sales and marketing and distribution. PLM is what helps to manage that lifecycle by aligning people, data, processes, and technology to bring the product to market. The Sr Manager, PLM, will focus on 2 areas, HPO WC Program Leader & Enterprise PLM: Windchill Product Owner
You will report to the Manager located in USA and have a hybrid schedule working in Katowice, Poland.
Your Responsibilities:
- Guide global business process ownership for all PLM processes.
- Strategic Leader that coordinates with Industry partners, Subject Matter Experts and multiple partners to identify value creation, gather requirements, and define the road map and implementation plan for PLM Tool Windchill.
- Accountable for Global deployment of the solutions ensuring compliance of solution designs with specifications, role expectations and creating/maintaining technical documentation.
- Collaborate with team members and external consultants for configuration, functionality, customization, integration, training, data migration, deployment, support.
- Collaborate with internal/external partners to lead and use of the PLM platforms as the standard application for defined processes.
- Ensure service availability and security and compliance of the owned solutions in cooperation with the respective team of experts.
- Lead the core function that manages transformation and promoting the use of the platforms by sponsoring business readiness leadership methods, supporting the internal customers, by organizational change management methods.
- Lead the governance and prioritization of data readiness, migration, and support. Conduct assessment, coordinate the data readiness needs for PLM migration, data cleansing, and data sync post-launch on a periodic basis.
- Support coordinating the assessment and the integration of any tools and services in the Applications Landscape with the PLM system and solutions.
- Lead ongoing delivery status updates, reporting on goals, trends, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
The Essentials - You Will Have:
- Bachelor's degree in business or engineering
- 5 years of experience in product development, process improvement, consulting, or related industry roles
- 3+ years of experience in Engineering with experience in hardware product development, Product Lifecycle management and enterprise ERP deployment
- 3+ years of experience managing product life cycle/PLM system type projects
- In-depth experience with PLM and Engineering transformation and process redesign methods
- Occasional Travel up to 10% of time
The Preferred - You Might Also Have:
- Knowledge of new technologies and being able to practically apply them to PLM and Engineering operations.
- Knowledge in all aspects of designing and constructing end-to-end hardware product development business processes, functions and organizational structures.
- Demonstrated knowledge as Program Manager (PMP), Safe Agilist, including product owner role and Agile project delivery methodologies.
- Navigate and use the capabilities of PLM software, CAD and Engineering Simulation applications.
- Experience leading and collaborating on projects with Product Development, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance and Supply Chain.
- Experience following platforms is an asset: SAP, PLM software such as Windchill, CREO, AutoDesk, EPLAN, ANSYS, Mathworks, Siemens Mentor,
- Experience driving mCAD and eCAD maturity standards set up through working groups, communities of practice methods
- Knowledge of application hosting platforms including AWS or Microsoft Azure cloud.
- Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.
- Experience working with a geographically dispersed team across cultures to achieve our goals
What We Offer:
Our benefits package includes …
- Volunteer Paid Time off available after 6 months of employment for eligible employees (
- Company volunteer and donation matching program – Your volunteer hours or personal cash donations to an eligible charity can be matched with a charitable donation.
- On-demand digital course library for professional development
- Comprehensive mindfulness programs with a premium membership to Calm
- Employee Assistance Program
- Personalized wellbeing programs through our OnTrack program
... and other local benefits!
At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.
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