Windchill expert

Windchill specialist (PLM, BOM and manufacturing structures)

About the assignment
Our client is looking for a senior Windchill expert with in-depth knowledge of product structures, BOM management and manufacturing-focused PLM. You will join an existing team as a specialist during a major system migration, tasked with developing a sustainable, easy-to-maintain solution for complex product and manufacturing structures and ensuring the flow of information between PLM and business systems.

Your responsibilities
Review existing proposed solutions, highlight risks and areas for improvement, and develop concrete data models, structures and ways of working in Windchill.
Work with parts, product structures, attributes, relationships, lifecycles, workflows and change management.
Determine when standard functionality is sufficient, when configuration is needed and when customisation is genuinely justified.
Define how EBOM and MBOM should be built, linked and maintained throughout the product and manufacturing lifecycle.
Manage configurable product structures, variants and rules, and translate them into unambiguous production structures.
Contribute to migration and integration through mapping, migration rules, data quality requirements and the definition of information ownership.
Support validation and troubleshooting together with the relevant teams.

Required qualifications
In-depth, hands-on expertise in PTC Windchill gained from several complex implementations.
Very strong skills in Windchill MPMLink and manufacturing-related BOM management, including EBOM and MBOM.
First-hand experience of solution design, configuration, implementation and troubleshooting in Windchill.
A good understanding of Windchill’s object model, part management, product structures, views, revisions, lifecycles and change management.
Experience of configurable product structures and variant logic, as well as CTO and/or ETO environments.
Experience working with large volumes of data, extensive BOM structures and migration from legacy systems.
The ability to turn manufacturing needs into practical Windchill solutions that can be maintained.
The ability to clearly explain the reasons behind technical choices and work closely with the business, engineering and IT.

Around ten years or more of relevant Windchill experience is desirable, but what matters most is the depth of your expertise and what you have personally designed and implemented. Documented experience of personally designing, configuring and implementing solutions in Windchill is required. High-level PLM consultancy alone, or experience as a user, is not sufficient.

Desirable
Experience of integration between Windchill and business systems.
A background in complex manufacturing industries involving mechanical or electromechanical products.
Migration in environments with very large volumes of parts.
Work with performance, scalability and maintenance in large Windchill environments.
Experience coaching and developing other Windchill specialists.

Your profile
You have a genuine technical interest in Windchill and are equally comfortable with high-level solution design and detailed implementation. You quickly spot risks and common pitfalls, ask the right questions and can show concretely what a solution should look like in the system. You are willing to challenge existing proposals when needed, work pragmatically and practically, and can drive the solution through to completed implementation yourself. What motivates you is using your specialist expertise to solve complex problems in manufacturing-focused environments.