Windchill Business Consultant
About the role
We are seeking an experienced Windchill Business Consultant to support a large-scale Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) transformation initiative. This role will partner with engineering, manufacturing, and business stakeholders to analyze current processes, design future-state solutions, and implement standardized Windchill/Windchill+ capabilities across the organization.
Responsibilities
Process Mapping & Functional Design Lead - As-Is and To-Be process mapping across Engineering, Document Control, Change Management, Configuration Management, and Manufacturing. Gather business requirements and develop functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and traceability matrices. Design and configure Windchill/Windchill+ solutions, including Lifecycles, Workflows, Soft Types, Attributes, UI Policies, Classification, Search Configuration, Conduct fit-gap analysis and facilitate design workshops with business stakeholders. Define user roles, governance models, security, contexts, and Access Control Lists (ACLs).
CAD Integration & Engineering Collaboration Design - Functional solutions for CAD integrations with Windchill. Support integrations with: Creo (Required), SolidWorks, Siemens NX, AutoCAD. Define CAD-WTPart association strategies, naming conventions, version control, visualization, and family table management.
Engineering Change & Configuration Management Design - Design and implement Engineering Change processes, including Engineering Change Requests (ECR), Engineering Change Orders (ECO), Engineering Change Notices (ECN). Configure approval workflows, routing rules, user roles, and KPI tracking. Support Configuration Management, including baselines, effectivity, options, variants, and EBOM-to-MBOM processes.
Data Migration & Validation Lead - Data discovery, cleansing, mapping, and validation activities for CAD Data, WTParts, Documents, Attributes, Classification. Define data quality standards and migration validation strategies. Support migration cycles, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and production deployments.
Testing, Training & User Adoption - Develop functional test plans and test scripts. Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and coordinate defect resolution. Create training materials and role-based user documentation. Conduct end-user training sessions. Drive organizational change management and user adoption initiatives.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
10+ years of experience in PLM Functional Consulting.
Extensive experience implementing Windchill/Windchill+ solutions.
Experience delivering enterprise-scale or greenfield PLM transformation programs.
Proven expertise designing CAD integrations with Windchill.
Experience developing enterprise PLM operating models.
Strong understanding of engineering, product development, and manufacturing business processes.
Qualifications
Experience with global PLM implementations.
Multi-site enterprise deployment experience.
Expertise in engineering and manufacturing collaboration environments.
Experience standardizing enterprise PLM processes.
Proven success driving change management and user adoption across large organizations.