PLM & Documentation Control Manager — BOM & Traceability

Halter Inc.; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Halter is scaling global production of connected livestock wearables while continuing to make meaningful product and manufacturing improvements. Our engineering decisions are well owned; now we need a dedicated owner for the systems, records, and planning visibility those decisions rely on.

As PLM/Configuration and Documentation Control Manager, you will own the structure that keeps product, process, supplier, validation, forward BOM, and change records complete, traceable, current, and easy to

Qualifications

• Extensive experience administering PLM, ERP, QMS or equivalent high‑consequence records environments.
• Exceptional attention to detail and follow‑through; you spot missing fields and stale revisions.
• Arena experience is valuable, but discipline matters more than the platform.

Responsibilities

• Own the health of our Arena PLM deployment, including configuration, lifecycles, revisions, roles, permissions, supplier access, onboarding, training, and data quality.
• Maintain a weekly forward BOM plan update for Supply Chain, with a clear-to-build view of upcoming BOM changes, validation state, timing, risk, and impact.
• Keep traceability across Onshape → Arena and Altium → Arena, and publish controlled documents to Google Workspace as read-only, versioned copies.
• Maintain BOM, part-number, revision, lifecycle, validation, waiver/deviation, supplier-document, and forward BOM records for clarity.
• Build and run practical registers for waivers, changes, document currency, missing records, overdue items, supplier-document status, and forward BOM planning.
• Co‑define release-boundary conventions with Engineering and Quality and keep standards easy to follow and consistently applied.
• Provide clear, useful status reporting so decision owners can act on facts.

Skills

Attention to detail

Documentation control

Cross-functional collaboration

Written communication

Willingness to travel

Tools

Arena PLM

Onshape

Altium

Google Workspace

Job description

Halter is scaling global production of connected livestock wearables while continuing to make meaningful product and manufacturing improvements. Our engineering decisions are well owned; now we need a dedicated owner for the systems, records, and planning visibility those decisions rely on.

As PLM/Configuration and Documentation Control Manager, you will own the structure that keeps product, process, supplier, validation, forward BOM, and change records complete, traceable, current, and easy to