Supernal
Lead Engineer, PLM Architecture & Digital Tools
Irvine, CA · Contract
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About the role
- Are you ready to take human possibility to a new dimension with us?
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- Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background check.
Responsibilities
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- Administer engineering software license infrastructure, including installation, configuration, and support of license managers such as FlexNet, RLM, and Dassault Systèmes DSLS.
- Develop elastic server architecture that can scale up along with the demand
- Architect and manage the 3DEXPERIENCE security model to enable a collaborative product development environment while protecting intellectual property, enforcing appropriate access controls, and supporting export compliance requirements.
- Translate PLM business requirements into scalable solution architectures, collaborate with external developers to define and implement customizations, and ensure delivered solutions support business objectives and user needs
- Plan budget to manage and maintain digital tool landscape based on license utilization, emerging business needs and phase of the program
- Negotiate with key software vendors, optimize the license mix to maximize value
Requirements
- Responsible for standing up and managing the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system and all associated digital toolsets required for product development.
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering or IT field is required; advanced degree preferred
- Must have extensive understanding of modern PLM/CAD systems
- Experience with Dassault 3DEXPERIENCE systems
- Experience with purchasing these types of systems and their licensing models
- Experience with project management and tools/methodologies
Compensation
- Base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and location.
Benefits
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- Evaluate connected factory/industry 4.0 digital tools and inform operations team of potential benefits and technologies to use
Company info
- Supernal is looking for an experienced engineer to manage the engineering/development team by overseeing all digital tools.
- As a part of Systems Engineering, Integration & Test team, the Lead, PLM Architecture & Digital Tools Engineer will ensure all the engineering digital systems are integrated, connected, modern, and positioned to enable a full digital thread throughout the value stream of the product.
- This role will incubate many of the technologies to be leveraged in the future production system and will interface often with the operations and IT teams to ensure the future production systems are able to leverage the engineering digital data to enable that fully connected vision of the future.
- What you can do:
- Responsible for standing up and managing the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system and all associated digital toolsets required for product development. This includes, but is not limited to, CAD, CAE, Simulation, Program Management, and Requirements Management
- Evaluating the integration of these tools with the downstream digital tools used by operations and ensuring a digital backbone is in place that can enable the full digital thread
- Integrate seamlessly with IT to ensure a stable, secure, and reliable platform is stood up
- Administer databases such as Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL), PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB
- Install and administer engineering applications on Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) servers
- Deep understanding of the 3DEXPERIENCE data model, core capabilities and guide the team in meeting the business goals using the out-of-the-box features and functionalities
- Administer enterprise engineering applications, including Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE and IBM DOORS Next, to ensure reliable performance, effective configuration, and alignment with product development needs.
- Actively mentor colleagues, train in troubleshooting techniques and guiding them through the complexities of aerospace-specific data hierarchies and security protocols
- This position may eventually broaden to a leadership position in or outside of the engineering organization
- What you can contribute:
- A minimum of eight (8) years of aerospace experience leading digital tools engineering activities
- Experience leading teams
- Experience with aircraft development programs
- Familiarity with running business cases and justifying investments
Equal opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
- Please contact us to request accommodation at:
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- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other category
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