PLM System Design Engineer

PLM System Design Engineer
Position: PLM System Design Engineer
Location: Sunnyvale, CA (Onsite)/ Austin, TX

Job Description
Customer is looking for a candidate with strong business strategy and planning skills who can lead discussions with business stake holders to sell value of a proposed technical initiative. He should be able to create presentations for leadership and for business meetings to articulate the vision for the technical project. So, I think strong business communication skills and experience of project strategy, planning and roadmap etc. are key requirements.

Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, or related field (Manufacturing, Mechanical, Electrical, etc.)
• 5-7+ years of experience of leading global supply chain initiatives improving processes in the electronics industry - design, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, fulfillment, after-sale service
• Deep PLM and Operations / Supply Chain process experience and be self-directed, motivated, and comfortable working in an extremely fast-paced environment
• Technical proficiency in PLM enterprise software, integration technologies, and data platforms
• Extensive experience in global supply chain management specific to New Product Introduction (NPI) at a global scale
• Comprehensive knowledge of how PLM data is used across enterprise, manufacturing, and supply chain processes. Ability to identify uses cases where improved data will bring significant benefit to teams, mobilize POC’s, and scale rapid solutions.
• Hands on experience working with PLM data across the enterprise translating how data enables business processes and recommends process Efficiency improvements resulting from data processing improvements and realize the benefit
• Strong analytical, project management and leadership skills to handle a variety of activities and complexities spanning the organization and be willing to work at both a very detailed and strategic level
• The ability to facilitate global projects and to align business and technical teams
• Exceptional communication skills, verbal, written and presentation to easily communicate complex technical concepts to executive leadership
• Solid ability to personally deliver large scale global initiatives under pressure, with high levels of complexity and ambiguity
• Identify build strong business cases for the Data Foundation use cases. Assist in the mobilization of POC’s and projects to mobilize the use cases.

Preferred Qualifications
• Master’s degree in industrial engineering, or related field (Manufacturing, Mechanical, Electrical, etc.)
• Ability to operate independently with conviction and drive teams to the right levels of quality in delivery even under pressure.
• Handle ambiguity in problem definition, have a good handle on business value and have the initiative to craft problems and projects so that they deliver maximum impact.