The CAD Engineering Lead owns the digital backbone of how we design, develop, and deliver product. From the engineer’s first sketch in CAD through release into manufacturing and service, this role is responsible for the platforms, data, and processes that make product development fast, reliable, and scalable. It is a deliberate evolution beyond traditional CAD administration—less about keeping the lights on, and more about shaping how engineering works at scale.
This is a strategic, business-aligned position with an operational role. The person in this seat will be expected to think in terms of roadmaps, business cases, and measurable outcomes, while remaining close enough to the technology to make confident architectural decisions. They will partner across Engineering, IT, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing to ensure our engineering systems are a competitive advantage rather than a constraint on growth.
Own the Engineering Systems Landscape
You will be accountable for the architecture, configuration, performance, and roadmap of our CAD and PDM/PLM platforms—making sure they are stable on their own and integrated cleanly into the broader ecosystem.
Establish Governance and Standards
Engineering at scale depends on consistency, and consistency depends on standards. You will define and enforce the standards that allow engineers across geographies to work as one team.
Protect the Digital Thread
Product data has to flow accurately from design into manufacturing and on into service—without distortion, duplication, or loss of context. You will own that flow end to end.
Drive Engineering Productivity
Engineers should spend their time engineering, not fighting tools. You will improve productivity through targeted automation and performance tuning, and serve as the escalation point when complex issues block the team.
Lead Transformation and Continuous Improvement
This role is expected to lead, not just maintain. The bar is real, measurable productivity gains—not technology adoption for its own sake.
Drive adoption of AI-accelerated CAD — generative and topology-optimized design, AI-assisted part search and design reuse, automated simulation setup, and intelligent validation — to compress design cycles, reduce duplicate parts, and scale engineering expertise
Manage Vendors and Partners
Our engineering systems run on a network of external relationships, and you will own them—holding partners accountable to SLAs and continuously looking for ways to optimize cost without compromising capability.
Own strategic vendor relationships (Dassault, PTC, Siemens, Autodesk, etc.)
Partner Across the Business
Engineering systems do not exist in isolation. A central part of the job is translating business needs into system capabilities—and translating system constraints back into business-friendly language.
We are looking for someone with deep experience in engineering systems who has been through significant implementations from end to end.
You should be technically credible across the full stack of engineering data—from CAD geometry through PLM lifecycle and into ERP integration—and comfortable getting hands-on with automation and configuration.
