SolidWorks PDM Administrator

States Manufacturing LLC•Dayton, MN

8h•$33 - $40•Onsite

About The Position

Forgent’s mechanical engineers use SolidWorks and SolidWorks PDM Professional to model the structures, enclosures, and large E-House and switchgear assemblies that go to the floor. As practices are harmonized across the company and CAD data connects to ERP and PLM, these systems need a dedicated daily owner. This role exists to be that owner. The Associate administers the mechanical design environment for the MV, LV, and E-House/Skid product lines, working with Engineering, Manufacturing, Applications Engineering, and IT. The role is paired with the AutoCAD-Vault Administration Associate; both report to the Engineering Systems Supervisor, who owns standards, architecture, and final decisions. This is an engineering systems administration role, not an IT help-desk or production CAD design seat.

Requirements

3+ years administering SolidWorks PDM Professional or comparable PDM (permissions, workflows, revisions, metadata, document control).
Strong working knowledge of SolidWorks and SolidWorks PDM Professional.
Understanding of CAD assemblies, drawings, BOMs, part numbering, and release processes.
Experience supporting engineering or manufacturing environments.
Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and training skills, with the process discipline to apply established standards.

Nice To Haves

CSWA or CSWP certification.
SolidWorks PDM Administration training course certificate.
Experience with CAD/PDM upgrades, migrations, or implementations, and with large assembly performance.
Familiarity with ERP/PLM integration (NetSuite, Autodesk Fusion Manage).
Switchgear, switchboard, or structural manufacturing experience; multi-site support experience.

Responsibilities

Administer SolidWorks and SolidWorks PDM Professional across all sites: permissions, groups, workflow and lifecycle states, revision controls, and archives.
Maintain PDM folder structures, naming, metadata, file relationships, CAD standards, templates, title blocks, and libraries within approved standards.
Support change, release, revision, and archival workflows, including the redline/issue-tracking process that communicates changes to the floor.
Install, license, and version-control SolidWorks; coordinate updates, testing, and deployments with IT and the Supervisor.
Troubleshoot software, licensing, performance, workflow, and access issues; work with IT on workstation performance and crash mitigation.
Provide Tier 1 support and act as day-to-day contact for the SolidWorks reseller on PDM issues.
Check that engineers follow approved PDM workflows, modeling, and filing practices; report deviations and recurring issues to the Supervisor.
Onboard new engineers on CAD/PDM standards; maintain user guides, work instructions, and training materials.
Develop templates, tools, and scripts that improve efficiency; recommend automation and process improvements and escalate major decisions to the Supervisor.
Maintain SolidWorks libraries, templates, and configurations, plus structural entries in the Master Component Library (metadata, part numbers, BOM data).
Implement large assembly best practices for complex E-House and switchgear models to improve stability and performance.
Apply the approved fastener representation approach (simplified representations, hardware BOMs).
Support automated hardware creation and spooling workflows in SolidWorks as they mature.
Validate that SolidWorks BOMs and metadata flow accurately through PDM to NetSuite and future PLM (Autodesk Fusion Manage).
Support cross-plant transfers of mechanical design data and approved PLM/ERP integrations, including data mapping and migration.