Product Development and Operations Functional Consultant

This role focuses on product development and operations functional consulting, supporting digital engineering and transformation initiatives. It involves optimizing the end-to-end product lifecycle, improving speed to market, product quality, and collaboration, with a strong emphasis on PLM and ALM solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Optimize new product development, testing, manufacturing, service and commercialization
  2. Reduce product complexity by improving reuse and modularity
  3. Optimize product cost through design for value, strategic sourcing, simplification and manufacturing optimization
  4. Support implementation and optimization of PLM solutions (e.g., Siemens Teamcenter, PTC Windchill, Dassault ENOVIA, SAP PLM)
  5. Support implementation and optimization of ALM solutions (e.g., Siemens Polarion, PTC Codebeamer, Jama Software, AzureDevops, GitLab, Jira, etc.)

Skills

Required

  • product development
  • product management
  • new product introduction
  • manufacturing operations
  • product costing
  • design for value
  • PLM solutions
  • ALM solutions
  • functional requirements
  • user stories
  • BOM management
  • engineering change control
  • requirements management
  • document management
  • code management
  • version control
  • software lifecycle management
  • product configuration
  • process design
  • data model design
  • functional design documents
  • industry leading practices
  • design workshop facilitation
  • conference room pilot facilitation
  • testing (SIT/UAT) facilitation
  • integrations with CAD systems
  • integrations with coding platforms
  • integrations with ERP
  • integrations with manufacturing systems
  • deployment support
  • post-go-live support
  • change management
  • training development
  • user adoption
  • project delivery
  • timelines management
  • client communications

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Product Design, or related field