PDM/PLM Administrator

Ermco • Athens, GA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The PDM/PLM Administrator is responsible for administering, architecting, installing, deploying, supporting, and governing ERMCO’s enterprise product data and product lifecycle management environment, while providing technical leadership to mechanical automation development teams. The role establishes and controls standardized enterprise environments, including applications, integrations, CAD/PDM libraries, templates, configurations, and version baselines. It designs scalable solutions for multiple sites and remote users, governs deployments and scheduled updates, and enables connected workflows from sales, quoting, and product configuration through engineering and into production and quality processes. The role ensures engineering data, workflows, and automation products remain controlled, accessible, compatible, maintainable, and aligned with business processes across the enterprise.

This onsite position is based in Athens, Georgia, or Dyersburg, Tennessee. Relocation assistance is available.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Working knowledge of PDM/PLM solution architecture, environment design, revision control, lifecycle management, permissions, workflows, metadata, engineering change processes, system security, backup and recovery, and integration principles.
• Hands-on experience installing and configuring enterprise CAD/PDM/PLM environments and controlling libraries, templates, shared standards, client configurations, deployment packages, version compatibility, and scheduled software updates across distributed user populations.
• Experience supporting users, troubleshooting system issues, documenting procedures, and coordinating technical changes.
• Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, and developing mechanical automation developers or comparable engineering software teams, including work planning, technical direction, resource coordination, performance coaching, and delivery accountability.
• Strong attention to detail, customer-service orientation, and cross-functional communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Administration experience with Autodesk Vault and/or Fusion Manage.
• Experience integrating PDM/PLM with upstream sales, CRM, quoting, and CPQ workflows and downstream ERP, manufacturing, production, document-control, inspection, nonconformance, and quality-management systems.
• Experience migrating engineering documents and CAD data from shared drives, SharePoint, or legacy repositories.
• Knowledge of manufacturing engineering, bills of material, product structures, configuration, and change-control processes.
• Experience overseeing development of CAD automation, rules-based design, engineering configurators, APIs, scripts, plug-ins, or custom applications, with knowledge of software architecture, source control, code review, testing, release management, and agile or iterative delivery practices.
• Knowledge of mechanical simulation methods and workflows, including finite element analysis, structural, thermal, or motion simulation, and experience connecting simulation inputs, models, results, and approvals with CAD and PDM/PLM processes.
• Demonstrated experience designing or implementing multi-site and remote-access PDM/PLM architectures, including distributed deployment models, network and latency considerations, replication or synchronization, high availability, disaster recovery, security, capacity planning, and system lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Own the administration and technical architecture of the PDM/PLM platform, including users, roles, permissions, lifecycle states, workflows, categories, numbering schemes, configuration standards, and environment strategy.
• Maintain the controlled repository for CAD models, drawings, specifications, engineering documents, and related metadata.
• Configure and support check-in/check-out, revision, release, approval, change, and document-control processes.
• Define and maintain enterprise PDM/PLM solution architecture—including application, database, storage, network, identity, security, integration, and client-access components—in partnership with IT and cybersecurity teams.
• Define and govern enterprise engineering data standards, including naming conventions, file and item numbering, property names and descriptions, metadata definitions, parameters, units of measure, material libraries, classifications, and required-field rules.
• Establish governance for creating, reviewing, approving, versioning, and retiring properties, parameters, materials, templates, and naming standards, including validation rules, duplicate prevention, change-impact assessment, and synchronization across locations and integrated systems.
• Plan and execute data migration, cleanup, validation, classification, and controlled onboarding of legacy content.
• Monitor and optimize system health, job processing, permissions, performance, capacity, replication, network-dependent services, integrations, and remote-user experience across enterprise locations.
• Own enterprise installation and environment setup for PDM/PLM and supported CAD applications across multiple sites and remote users.
• Establish and manage deployment governance, including training, release calendars, version compatibility assessments, pilot testing, change windows, site rollout sequencing, user communications, validation, rollback plans, and post-deployment support for patches, upgrades, and major version updates.
• Lead, mentor, and coordinate mechanical automation developers responsible for CAD automation, engineering configurators, design utilities, custom integrations, and related digital engineering solutions.
• Measure adoption, data quality, workflow compliance, and support trends, and recommend continuous improvements.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance is available.
• ERMCO describes opportunities for learning, contribution, and career growth in a manufacturing environment that values innovation and collaboration.

What This Job Offers

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