IT Systems Engineer IV (EA)

Crane Electronics • Lynnwood, WA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Crane Aerospace and Electronics has an exciting opportunity for an IT Systems Engineer IV at our Lynnwood, WA or Burbank, CA location. About Crane: Crane Aerospace & Electronics supplies critical systems and components to the aerospace and defense markets. You’ll find Crane Aerospace & Electronics in some of the toughest environments: from engines to landing gear; from satellites to medical implants and from missiles to unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Located in the epicenter of United States aviation manufacturing, our Crane Aerospace & Electronics Lynnwood, Wash., facility delivers industry-leading aerospace & defense power, sensing and fluid solutions. Our products are rugged enough to fly 5 billion miles from Earth on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft and innovative enough to be featured on Advanced Air Mobility demonstrators. You’ll join a group of aerospace professionals committed to engineering excellence and work in a community tucked between the idyllic Puget Sound and Cascade Mountains. Start the next chapter of your career with Crane Aerospace & Electronics! Job Summary: The IT Systems Engineer IV is an individual technical contributor who works with limited supervision and is responsible for designing, architecting and maintaining complex Crane A&E Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. Engineer will lead efforts to define data requirements, evaluate strategic decisions, and Interface with cross-functional teams to support the organization’s product life cycle management systems. The role is driven by work in PLM systems including infrastructure planning, workflow development/validation, process development, and production support.

Requirements

• 10-12+ years of extensive experience in Teamcenter administration, custom development, or system configuration.
• Experience in leading end-to-end Teamcenter implementation across multiple business units from requirements to production deployment.
• Experience in leading global rollout of Teamcenter across multiple sites with phased deployment strategy.
• Experience in defining and executing upgrade strategy.
• Experience with setting up MCAD and ECAD integrations.
• Integration experience between PLM – Upstream/Downstream applications.
• Experience with setting up a Teamcenter distributed environment and its architecture.
• Experience with data migration processes including tools, techniques, and validations.
• Experience with ITK, SOA, REST services.
• Proficiency in using programming languages such as Java and C++.
• Knowledge and understanding of engineering processes and product design cycles.
• Knowledge of engineering data configuration including parts, BOMs, and change orders.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Ability to conduct process assessments.
• Ability to complete job requirements within time constraints.
• Ability to work effectively in an individual or team environment.
• Requires strong customer and communication skills.
• Must be self-motivated and directed.
• Strong interest in efficiency and continuous improvement.
• Ability to work independently in a distributed team.
• Proven leadership ability, including demonstrated ability to consult with functional leaders and other engineers and administrators.
• Documentation writing skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Agile PLM or Windchill applications.
• Experience with PDM tools such as DOORS, EWM, and RPE.
• Experience with XML troubleshooting.
• Experience with configuration and task management in Azure DevOps.
• Experience with systems/Windows server administration.
• Advanced Knowledge of SQL and system reporting.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing, architecting, and maintaining PLM applications, solutions and integrations.
• Collaborate with the business and peers to design and implement scalable solutions including interfaces that align with business initiatives.
• Responsible for working on Teamcenter enhancement requests and resolving complex production issues.
• Lead system, configuration, and enhancement design reviews and provide approval for technical solutions.
• Develop and maintain Teamcenter components (BMIDE, workflows, preferences, reports, extensions).
• Define data designs (data models, database setup, and configurations), integration patterns and customization strategy.
• Evaluate strategic decisions to determine best approach for implementation (configuration, customizations or using out of the box functionality).
• Ability to lead implementation of high impact and complex initiatives.
• Lead discovery, research, planning, proof-of-concept and implementing new technologies for PLM ecosystem.
• Interface with cross functional teams and end users at multiple sites for requirements gathering, data mapping, verification testing, user training, and project status communication.
• Ensures adherence to all regulatory compliance processes and requirements, including but not limited to CMMC, DFARS and ITAR.
• Identify critical systems for obsolescence management to ensure the team stay current with new technology.
• Define monitoring, alerting and support strategies.
• Support deployments across dev, test and production environments.
• Prepare technical documents, action plans and design specifications and other solution documents as needed.
• Conduct end-user training upon completion of software solutions.
• Responsible for training, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to less experienced team members.
• Any other tasks assigned by supervisor or management.

Benefits

• Health care, dental, vision, life and disability insurance starting the first day of the month
• 15 days of paid time off that start accruing your first day at Crane and 12 paid holidays per year.
• 401k plan with company match
• Education Reimbursement: eligible after 6 months of employment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior