Manager, PLM & CAD Systems

Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. We are designing, manufacturing, and operating an all-electric aircraft that can carry four passengers while producing minimal noise.

Our sights are set high and our problems are hard, and we believe that diversity in the workplace is what makes us smarter, drives better insights, and will ultimately lift us all to success. We are dedicated to cultivating an equitable and inclusive environment that embraces our differences, and supports and celebrates all of our team members.

What You'll Do

• Lead a team responsible for implementing, maintaining, and optimizing the digital tools and processes that support entire product development lifecycle.
• Ensure seamless integration across design, manufacturing, certification, and production phases of our eVTOL aircraft programs.
• Oversee enterprise CAD and PLM tool deployment, configuration, and maintenance.
• Ensure system integration and data integrity supporting all engineering disciplines including configuration management.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance system performance and user experience.
• Lead the monitoring and support of all PLM and CAD applications to ensure high availability and efficient performance for end users.
• When necessary, perform technical assignments to support the ongoing project or ad-hoc needs for the PLM or CAD tool area.
• Steer the design and implementation/optimization of release processes for design data.
• Responsible for Engineering BOM (EBOM) by overseeing tools to support product structure management and configuration control of design data and product structure.
• Handle MCAD/ECAD/Wiring by managing tools supporting mechanical, electrical, and wire harness design integration.
• Perform Design & Manufacturing Engineering by supporting design for manufacturability processes and engineering change management.
• Lead the implementation of tooling and processes to support the definition, release, and maintenance of MBOMs using Siemens Manufacturing Process Planner (MPP) or EasyPlan Bill of Process (BOP) & Routings.
• Implement tools and processes to ensure compliance with aerospace documentation standards (e.g. AS9100).
• Manage the tools for digital work instruction creation and distribution systems and integrations.
• Design, develop, and implement tools that will maintain product configuration integrity throughout the product's lifecycle in coordination with Archer's Configuration Management team.
• Lead the implementation of robust data controls, including export control administration, for managing appropriate access and release of data.
• Oversee CFD, FEA, and other analysis tool deployment and support.
• Support FAA certification processes through digital substantiation and documentation management.

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field.

Minimum Experience Requirement: 10 years experience with Siemens Teamcenter PLM platform, including Teamcenter multi-site setup and configuration, Teamcenter disaster recovery solutions, migration of Teamcenter from on-premise infrastructure to cloud infrastructure, migration of Teamcenter volumes from on-premise to cloud storage solutions, developing Integration Tool Kit (ITK) utilities, developing C++ customizations, and migrating data from Teamcenter from external systems, such as Teamcenter Enterprise or other PLM Systems. 2 years experience with Siemens NX CAD system and 1 year experience with Polarion system administration, development and customization.

Please apply online at: Must put job code SJ2026SK on resume/CV and cover letter.

At Archer we aim to attract, retain, and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. For this position we are offering $239,200 to $251,160 per year.


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