Zipline International Inc.
PLM & Configuration Manager
South San Francisco, California, USA · Senior
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About the role
- About Zipline Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service.
- Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.
- The drone is only 15% of what we've built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.
Responsibilities
- Establish standards for BOM accuracy, revisions, alternates, effectivity, and traceability across design, manufacturing, and service engineering.
- Partner with Supply Chain and Manufacturing to assess how engineering changes affect component availability, supplier qualification, and existing inventory, and define what business tools are needed to communicate inventory disposition plans.
- Work closely with the PLM Technical Lead and development team to provide functional requirements, product-data structure definitions, and business logic that guide custom development.
- Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT), validate that delivered capabilities meet the original business intent, and lead functional troubleshooting.
- Develop configuration and change-management metrics, audits, and cross-functional improvements that reduce release errors and engineering change cycle time, improve traceability and first-pass build accuracy, and prevent configuration management from becoming a production bottleneck.
- Deliver functional requirements for priority PLM capabilities and validate delivered functionality through UAT in partnership with Software Engineering.
- We design, build, and operate the world's largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably.
- Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people's lives and by scaling the future of logistics.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in engineering product configuration management, engineering change management, or product lifecycle management within hardware or consumer electronics development.
- A strong understanding of complex product structures, variant configuration rules, effectivity controls, and the relationships between engineering, manufacturing, and service BOMs.
- Experience with PLM systems such as Teamcenter, Agile, Windchill, Arena, or equivalent for configuration baseline management and engineering change workflows.
- If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!
Benefits
- With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
Company info
- We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere.
- We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.
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