Remote Position
[Remote] Senior Windchill PLM Consultant
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tekshapers is seeking a Senior Windchill PLM Consultant to assess the current Windchill environment and plan a future upgrade to Windchill 2027. The role evaluates technical customizations, business processes, integrations, migration impacts, and user benefits, and provides upgrade recommendations and a roadmap.
Responsibilities
- Perform a comprehensive assessment of the current Windchill implementation, including:
- Configuration
- Customizations
- Data model
- Workflows
- Integrations
- Infrastructure landscape
- Analyze the organization's readiness for Windchill 2027 adoption
- Evaluate new capabilities available in Windchill 2027 and determine business applicability
- Review existing customizations, extensions, and configurations
- Identify upgrade risks, technical debt, obsolete customizations, and deprecated APIs
- Assess impact of current and planned enhancements on the Windchill 2027 implementation timeline
- Recommend remediation, retirement, or modernization strategies
- Evaluate current Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) processes and alignment with Windchill best practices
- Perform gap analysis between current processes and Windchill 2027 capabilities
- Identify opportunities to improve engineering change management, document control, quality management, regulatory compliance, and product development processes
- Review the current implementation roadmap and identify optimal insertion points for the Windchill 2027 upgrade
- Develop upgrade approach options including:
- In-place upgrade
- Parallel implementation
- Phased migration
- Assess timeline, cost, resource requirements, and schedule implications of each option
- Assess organizational impact of moving to Windchill 2027
- Quantify expected benefits wherever possible, including:
- Productivity improvements
- Reduced manual effort
- Faster change processes
- Better collaboration
- Improved system performance
- Regulatory compliance efficiencies
- Conduct stakeholder interviews and change impact assessments
- Evaluate impact on:
- Product data migration
- CAD data migration
- Historical records
- Classification structures
- Change objects
- Assess integrations with:
- ERP (SAP, Oracle, etc.)
- MES
- QMS
- Regulatory Systems
- CAD Systems (Creo, SolidWorks, CATIA)
- Enterprise applications
- Recommend migration and validation strategies
- Review current PLM architecture and scalability
- Recommend future-state architecture aligned with Windchill 2027
- Establish upgrade governance, risk management, and validation approach
Skills
- 12+ years of hands-on experience with PTC Windchill
- Expertise across: • Windchill PDMLink • ProjectLink • MPMLink • PartsLink • Change Management • Document Management • Configuration Management
- Strong knowledge of Windchill versions 12.x/13.x and roadmap toward Windchill 2027
- Experience with Windchill upgrades, migrations, and modernization programs
- Windchill customization framework
- Java/J2EE, JSP, REST APIs
- Windchill Workflow, OIRs, ACLs, Data Model
- Windchill Integration Frameworks
- Database knowledge (Oracle, SQL Server)
- Cloud and on-prem deployment architectures
- Strong understanding of PLM business processes
- Product Development Lifecycle
- Engineering Change Management
- Design Control
- Product Data Governance
- Regulatory Compliance and Validation
- Medical Devices Industry
- Understanding of regulated product development environments
- Knowledge of: • GxP • Design History File (DHF) • Device Master Record (DMR) • Risk Management Processes
- Domain: Medical Devices (additionally we can look at candidates from Life Sciences, Healthcare domain as well but preference shall be for candidates with Medical Devices domain background)
- Experience: 12+ Years
- Ability to obtain and deploy a Windchill 2027 evaluation environment from PTC
- Hands-on installation, configuration, and sandbox assessment of Windchill 2027
- PTC Windchill certifications
- Experience working directly with PTC product teams
- Prior consulting experience in large-scale PLM transformations
- Experience preparing executive business cases and ROI assessments
- Knowledge of: • FDA 21 CFR Part 11 • ISO 13485
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