PDM/PLM Systems Architect & Admin

GridBridge, Inc.; Athens (GA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

ERMCO in Athens, GA is seeking a PDM/PLM Administrator to manage enterprise CAD/PDM/PLM environments, architectures, and governance. This role will lead multiple sites and remote users, setting standards, workflows, and data practices that align with engineering and production processes.

Relocation assistance is available; onsite role in Athens, GA or Dyersburg, TN. You will mentor mechanical automation developers and drive data quality, system health, and continuous improvement across the

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Information Systems, Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Working knowledge of PDM/PLM solution architecture, environment design, revision control, lifecycle management, permissions, workflows, metadata, engineering change processes, system security, backup and recovery, and integration principles.
• Hands‑on experience installing and configuring enterprise CAD/PDM/PLM environments and controlling libraries, templates, shared standards, client configurations, deployment packages, version compatibility, and scheduled software updates across distributed user populations.
• Experience supporting users, troubleshooting system issues, documenting procedures, and coordinating technical changes.
• Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, and developing mechanical automation developers or comparable engineering software teams, including work planning, technical direction, resource coordination, performance coaching, and delivery accountability.
• Strong attention to detail, customer‑service orientation, and cross‑functional communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the administration and architecture of the PDM/PLM platform, including users, roles, permissions, lifecycle states, workflows, categories, numbering schemes, configuration standards, and environment strategy.
• Maintain the controlled repository for CAD models, drawings, specifications, engineering documents, and related metadata.
• Configure and support check-in/check-out, revision, release, approval, change, and document-control.
• Define and maintain enterprise PDM/PLM solution architecture with IT and cybersecurity partners.
• Define and govern enterprise engineering data standards, including naming conventions, file and item numbering, metadata definitions, parameters, units of measure, material libraries, classifications, and required-field rules.
• Establish governance for creating, reviewing, approving, versioning, and retiring properties, parameters, materials, templates, and naming standards, including validation rules, duplicate prevention, change impact assessment, and synchronization across locations.
• Plan and execute data migration, cleanup, validation, classification, and controlled onboarding of legacy content.
• Monitor and optimize system health, job processing, permissions, performance, capacity, replication, and remote-user experience.
• Own enterprise installation and environment setup for PDM/PLM across multiple sites and remote users.
• Establish and manage deployment governance, including training, release calendars, version compatibility assessments, pilot testing, change windows, site rollout sequencing, user communications, validation, rollback plans, and post-deployment support for patches and upgrades.
• Lead, mentor, and coordinate a team of mechanical automation developers.
• Measure adoption, data quality, workflow compliance, and support trends; recommend improvements.

Skills

Attention to detail

Customer service orientation

Cross-functional communication

Mentoring / leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Autodesk Vault

Fusion Manage

Inventor

AutoCAD

Windows Server

SQL Server

Scripting

Job description

ERMCO in Athens, GA is seeking a PDM/PLM Administrator to manage enterprise CAD/PDM/PLM environments, architectures, and governance. This role will lead multiple sites and remote users, setting standards, workflows, and data practices that align with engineering and production processes.

Relocation assistance is available; onsite role in Athens, GA or Dyersburg, TN. You will mentor mechanical automation developers and drive data quality, system health, and continuous improvement across the