Assoc – Eng Technical Documentation

Job title: Associate, Engineer Technical Documentation

Location: Chennai

Reports to: Senior Manager, Engineer Technical Documentation

Contract: Permanent, Full-time

Purpose of the Role

As a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Associate Engineer, you will get an opportunity to work with all the wonderful people who create, develop, and build our products, and help manage a team of other contributors to our success. You will help ensure that our products conform to the highest quality and safety standards, bridge together different disciplines and help us become truly one company. The PLM Associate engineer will be responsible for the critical duty of supporting the creating and maintenance of Bills of Materials and Change Management processes for a variety of our products in addition to uploading CAD objects.  We welcome previous experience with Product Lifecycle Management systems and familiarity with developing consumer products. Our Product Lifecycle Management system is growing, and we welcome new team members to help us fill the gaps in our growing PLM team.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Business Acumen:

• Understands how the PLM activities that the team support on day-to-day basis adds value to the Business.
• Should be able to complete work in a timely manner and keep larger tasks on track.  
• Identifies own key assignments, schedules, and process steps.
•  Demonstrates the ability to estimate the time and resources required to complete tasks.
• Identifies issues and communicates with decision-makers in the team when a decision needs to be made 

Technical Leadership

• Assists R&D team in the technical documentation of projects.
• Basic Understanding of product development lifecycle and NPD and NPD Express projects within Newell Brands.
• Basic Understanding of product deliverable documents and should be able to audit the same before release in WC using appropriate checklists.
• Support R&D teams in developing and maintaining Bills of Materials, creating, updating Finished Goods, Semi Finished goods, Create/Update Colour Variants to maintain and/or update products of live products in Windchill (PLM) system.
• As Change Analyst1 , should understand and implement Engineering Change Request (ECR) creation & Audit
• As Change Analyst2 , should understand and implement Engineering Change Notice (ECN) creation & implementation tasks routing and complete the tasks assigned by CA3
• Competent in creation and updation of drawings and parts using Creo & solidworks

Problem Solving:

• Assists with the implementation of existing technologies on a project level to meet project objectives.
• Uses a disciplined approach and multiple methodologies to assist in analysis and determination of preferred solutions to technical challenges.
• Compiles test results to provide data for use in solving problems &
• Collaborates with Engineers to develop optimal solutions by capturing the windchill issues/ errors and discussing the same.
• Should be able to identify discrepancies in WC structures, documents and discuss with Engineer to provide solutions to counterparts.
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  Should be able to learn additional systems like SAP, FlexPLM that can be helpful in gathering the necessary information for generating correct Bills of Materials

Communication:

• Emphasizes the most important facts or features of PLM Windchill.
• Prepares and delivers formal presentations with organizing key points and supporting information for a topic as appropriate for the audience.
• Should be able to further simplifies explanation when needed.
• Uses feedback on own presentations to improve.
• Regularly presents ideas or suggestions to associates in persuasive terms.
• Influences others during the decision-making process.
• Uses active listening skills and probing techniques to surface opportunities to influence.
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  Demonstrates sensitivity to speakers by positive language, both verbal and non-verbal

Organizational Agility:

• As a PLM Assoc Engineer, you will be executing the project documentation tasks related to and updating windchill objects:
• Should be able to describe the changes to be done after audit and seek help in correcting the same by XF teams.
• Should Follow-up with cross functional teams for the pending documents/ corrections.
• Should have good Oral and written Communication skills.
• Should have good listening techniques such as paying attention and confirming understanding.
• Should have basic presentation skills and support the team in making basic presentations for Queries, Proposals for XF teams.
• Should have basic Excel and reporting skills and support the team to maintain required trackers for monthly metrics.

Technical Mastery:

• Able to recommend the architecture of the windchill system contexts & define access for a new set of process.
• Leads application of basic principles to solve windchill routing issues, access issues or Bugs and would be able to take help of E-IT team to solve the same.
• Understands all phases, activities, and deliverables of product development.
• Understands the practices followed by different Businesses within Newell and would recommend the best practices to be implemented across maintaining product integrity.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering required (Mechanical preferred)
• 1-3 years in related field required
• Good Knowledge of Product lifecycle management
• Must be proficient in ECN, handling Bill of materials & good at Microsoft Excel
• Demonstrates computer literacy in CAD (Creo preferred)
• Basic understanding of applicable manufacturing processing.
• Strong interpersonal skills & ability to perform in a team environment.
• Good verbal and written communication skills