PLM & Configuration Manager

The role

You will define and own the configuration management framework to ensure product integrity from engineering development through mass production and field operations. You will set strategic direction for part identification, BOM structures, configuration management, and product release governance.

What you will do

• Establish and enforce configuration identification standards, part-numbering schemas, naming conventions, and revision control practices.
• Define multi-level BOM structures and relationships between engineering, manufacturing, and service BOMs.
• Establish standards for BOM accuracy, revisions, alternates, effectivity, and traceability.
• Partner with Supply Chain and Manufacturing to assess engineering change effects on components and inventory.
• Provide functional requirements, product-data structure definitions, and business logic to the PLM development team.
• Lead User Acceptance Testing and functional troubleshooting.
• Identify and resolve product-data integrity issues across PLM, ERP, and related systems.
• Develop configuration and change-management metrics, audits, and cross-functional improvements.
• Provide guidance to Change Analysts and engineering teams on complex BOM and product-data issues.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in engineering product configuration management, engineering change management, or product lifecycle management within hardware or consumer electronics development.
• Experience establishing and governing BOM structures, part-numbering schemas, naming conventions, and revision control processes across hardware programs.
• Deep knowledge of hardware release practices, including lifecycle states, approvals, release packages, CAD and drawing releases, manufacturing documentation, and audit trails.
• Experience establishing configuration management practices with the judgment to make foundational decisions and explain tradeoffs.
• Strong understanding of complex product structures, variant configuration rules, effectivity controls, and BOM relationships.
• Experience with PLM systems such as Teamcenter, Agile, Windchill, Arena, or equivalent.
• Track record of defining configuration management business requirements and partnering with software teams.
• Experience integrating configuration management processes with manufacturing execution systems and supply chain planning tools.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and clear communication.

About the company

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. They design, build, and operate an autonomous logistics system to deliver food, medicine, and essential goods.