Vault & AutoCAD Administrator — Engineering Systems Lead

States Manufacturing LLC; Dayton (MN); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO / ESST

Paid holidays

Health insurance deductible

Paid weekly

Vision & Dental

401K / Life / STD

Job summary

Forgent is seeking an Associate to administer AutoCAD, Vault Professional, and related CAD systems across sites. You will manage permissions, workflows, and archives while maintaining standards and templates for efficient engineering data control.

You will work with Engineering, Manufacturing, Applications Engineering, and IT, supporting PLM/ERP integrations and data transfers. Travel between Dayton and Champlin, MN, is occasional.

Qualifications

• 3+ years administering Autodesk Vault or comparable PDM.
• Strong working knowledge of AutoCAD, AutoCAD Electrical, and Vault Professional.
• Experience supporting engineering or manufacturing environments.
• Understanding of electrical schematics, project structures, BOMs, release processes.
• Scripting or automation experience in CAD or Vault environments.

Responsibilities

• Administer AutoCAD, AutoCAD Electrical, and Vault Professional across all sites: permissions, groups, workflow and lifecycle states, revision controls, and archives.
• Maintain Vault folder structures, naming, metadata, file relationships, CAD standards, templates, title blocks, and libraries within approved standards.
• Support change, release, revision, and archival workflows, including the redline/issue-tracking process that communicates changes to the floor.
• Install, license, and version-control AutoCAD products; coordinate updates, testing, and deployments with IT and the Supervisor.
• Troubleshoot software, licensing, performance, workflow, and access issues; work with IT on workstation performance and crash mitigation.
• Provide Tier 1 support and act as day-to-day contact for reseller on Vault issues.
• Check that engineers follow approved Vault workflows and filing practices; report deviations and recurring issues to the Supervisor.
• Onboard new engineers on CAD/Vault standards; maintain user guides, work instructions, and training materials.
• Develop templates, tools, and scripts that improve efficiency; recommend automation and process improvements and elevate major decisions to the Supervisor.
• Maintain AutoCAD Electrical symbol libraries, catalogs, templates, and project structures, plus electrical entries in the Master Component Library (metadata, part numbers, BOM data).
• Validate that AutoCAD Electrical BOM and component data flow accurately through Vault to NetSuite and future PLM (Autodesk Fusion Manage).
• Carry out site configuration, data preparation, and user transition for the enterprise Vault rollout.
• Support cross-plant transfers of electrical design data between Forgent sites.
• Maintain Vault records used to log design review findings (e.g., by the Electrical Design Auditor).
• Support approved PLM/ERP integrations, including part-master sync, BOM and document transfer, data mapping, and migration.

Skills

AutoCAD expertise

PDM/Vault administration

Technical documentation

Training capabilities

Tools

AutoCAD

AutoCAD Electrical

Vault Professional

Job description

Forgent is seeking an Associate to administer AutoCAD, Vault Professional, and related CAD systems across sites. You will manage permissions, workflows, and archives while maintaining standards and templates for efficient engineering data control.

You will work with Engineering, Manufacturing, Applications Engineering, and IT, supporting PLM/ERP integrations and data transfers. Travel between Dayton and Champlin, MN, is occasional.