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Engineering Services & PLM Specialist

Position Summary

The Engineering Services & PLM Specialist ensures efficient and accurate implementation of engineering changes, product releases, and configuration management throughout the product lifecycle. The role is essential for maintaining manufacturing readiness, supporting sales and service activities, and ensuring high-quality product data within enterprise systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute and manage Engineering Change Notices (CNs) in SAP ZAEM to support timely and reliable product releases.
• Maintain product configurations, master data, Bills of Material (BOMs), and variant structures in SAP.
• Ensure accurate product data is available for manufacturing, sales, service, and aftermarket operations.
• Support Engineering, Product Definition, Manufacturing, and Service teams throughout the release process.
• Coordinate aluminum content evaluations and provide data required for U.S. customs declarations.
• Facilitate FMEA activities and support continuous product improvement initiatives.
• Execute migration of engineering specifications and product data into Caterpillar systems (e.g., REDI, EPIX, SIS2).
• Drive first-time-right release quality and continuous process improvements.

Required Qualifications

• Experience in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Engineering Change Management, or Product Configuration Management.
• Strong understanding of product structures, BOMs, configuration management, and engineering master data.
• Experience working in cross-functional engineering and manufacturing environments.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical thinking, and process orientation.

Technical Expertise

• SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 and SAP ZAEM
• Siemens Teamcenter 14.2, Active Workspace, and NX2206
• Engineering Change Management and Product Release Processes
• Product Configuration and BOM Management

What Success Looks Like

• Fast, accurate, and reliable execution of change notifications.
• High-quality product data and configurations supporting manufacturing readiness.
• Efficient release processes with minimal rework and strong stakeholder satisfaction.
• Effective collaboration across Engineering, Operations, Service, and Sales.

This role is critical to ensuring seamless product releases, robust configuration management, and operational excellence across the Mannheim product portfolio.

Additional information: This job requires 5 working days from office.

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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