Technology Team Leader

Jobtailor; Cary (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a PLM-focused role in Cary, NC to lead PLM coordination and analytics across engineering, purchasing, and manufacturing. The candidate will work with Teamcenter, Creo, and EDS, driving data-driven decisions for NPI and CPI programs.

The role requires collaboration with multiple teams, setting quality metrics, and communicating key PLM issues to leadership while supporting dashboard publication and system validation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related fields.
• Experience with Teamcenter or another PLM software.
• Understanding of Teamcenter’s engineering drawing release process.
• Awareness of the roles of engineering and other teams in Teamcenter.
• Ability to work with many different disciplines such as engineering, purchasing, supply chain, and manufacturing.
• Experience with Creo and electronic data systems (EDS).
• Basic knowledge of data science and how it is used at Caterpillar.
• Knowledge of structure manager and bill of material (BOM) tools.
• Familiarity with Snowflake or other web-based data warehouses.
• Experience creating dashboards with PowerBI or Tableau.
• Experience with new product introduction (NPI) and current product improvement (CPI).

Responsibilities

• Act as BCP single point of contact for PLM
• Anticipate and plan for future PLM needs and funding
• Work with corporate PLM team and attend PLM meetings
• Set quality metrics for Teamcenter and achieve them
• Prioritize top PLM issues and communicate to leadership
• Work with end users to solve problems and address concerns
• Maintain standard work for PLM
• Lead projects to address priorities from product teams
• Collaborate with analytics team to collect and report telematics data
• Publish dashboards to support BCP product development
• Study Teamcenter data analytics for NPI and CPI decisions
• Assist validation of new PLM software versions and advocate for business needs

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Project leadership

Data interpretation

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Tools

Teamcenter

Creo

EDS

BOM tools

Snowflake

PowerBI

Tableau

Job description

Responsibilities

• Act as BCP single point of contact for PLM
• Anticipate and plan for future needs of the business unit, especially PLM changes requiring additional funding, training, testing, or integration with other systems
• Work with the corporate PLM team and attend PLM meetings
• Set quality metrics for Teamcenter and work with the corporate PLM team to achieve those metrics
• Prioritize and highlight the top PLM issues for our business unit and communicate to our leadership team.
• Work with end users directly to solve problems and address their concerns
• Maintain standard work for PLM as required
• Lead projects to prioritize and address the most important concerns from the product development teams and drive efficiency wherever possible
• Collaborate with the larger analytics team to collect and report telematics data
• Publish and author dashboards to enable BCP teams to more effectively develop our products or address customer concerns
• Study how Teamcenter data analytics can help drive better decisions for NPI and CPI programs
• Assist with validation of new versions of PLM software and act as voice of the business when evaluating these new software versions

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related fields.
• Experience with Teamcenter or another product lifecycle management (PLM) software
• Understanding of Teamcenter’s engineering drawing release process
• Awareness of the roles of engineering and other teams in Teamcenter (design, configurator, CPPD collaborators, checking, releasing, change control)
• Ability to work with many different disciplines such as engineering, purchasing, supply chain, and manufacturing
• Experience with Creo and electronic data systems (EDS)
• Basic knowledge of data science and how it is used at Caterpillar
• Knowledge of structure manager and bill of material (BOM) tools
• Familiarity with Snowflake or other web-based data warehouses
• Experience creating dashboards with PowerBI or Tableau
• Experience with new product introduction (NPI) and current product improvement (CPI)