Technical Data Administrator — PLM, Reports & Compliance

Zero Surplus; Essex; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Zero Surplus in Essex is seeking a Technical Administrator to own and maintain product technical files, ensuring they are complete, current and correct across UK, European and North American regulations. You’ll support development teams in the UK and China and work day-to-day in a PLM system alongside Excel.

Reporting to the Technical Manager, you’ll manage specification records, engineering data, costings and quotations, and own the Product Release Order process from development through to

Qualifications

• A couple of years in admin, ideally in a technical or engineering setting.
• Intermediate Excel, including pivot tables and VLOOKUPs, and confident with exported data
• Very close attention to detail
• Confident and persuasive, comfortable chasing people
• Someone who enjoys owning the data and running a tight ship
• Proactive and positive, and genuinely happy doing admin
• ERP or PLM experience (SAP, NetSuite, Navision, Oracle) is an advantage

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain product technical files in line with UK, European and North American regulations
• Support development teams in the UK and China
• Work day-to-day in a Product Lifecycle Management system alongside Excel, covering specification records, engineering data, costings and quotations
• Own the Product Release Order process that takes a new product through to production release
• Produce the weekly NPD report the Head of Product Development runs the meeting from, plus the monthly KPI report and carbon data
• This is an admin role, and it's meant to be

Skills

Excel

Attention to detail

Communication

Data ownership

Tools

SAP

NetSuite

Navision

Oracle ERP

Job description

Zero Surplus in Essex is seeking a Technical Administrator to own and maintain product technical files, ensuring they are complete, current and correct across UK, European and North American regulations. You’ll support development teams in the UK and China and work day-to-day in a PLM system alongside Excel.

Reporting to the Technical Manager, you’ll manage specification records, engineering data, costings and quotations, and own the Product Release Order process from development through to