Teamcenter Service Project Manager
Location: Lincoln, UKStart Date: ASAP
Contract Term: 12-month rolling contract
Work Style: 8 hrs per day / 40 hrs per week
Role Overview
A PLM Implementation (Teamcenter) Service Project Manager is required to lead the Service workstream through adoption of the current Teamcenter platform and the subsequent transition to the latest version. The role connects Service stakeholders with PLM functional, technical, migration, and organisational change teams, ensuring that Service requirements are translated into practical processes, system capabilities, and implementation activities. The successful candidate will lead priorities, dependencies, risks, and readiness across the workstream, taking real Service use cases through requirements, future-state process design, testing, migration, and business adoption.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the Service workstream roadmap, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, risks, and readiness criteria across the current and future Teamcenter environments.
- Facilitate workshops with Service subject matter experts and process owners, translating business needs into prioritised functional requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Document current and future-state Service processes, identify gaps, and drive decisions across process, data, system, and organisational change.
- Select representative products, structures, parts, documents, configurations, and datasets, creating realistic end-to-end Service examples within the PLM environment.
- Develop Service-specific test scenarios, coordinate functional testing and user acceptance testing, manage defects and retesting, and secure business validation and sign-off.
- Support data profiling, mapping, cleansing, trial migrations, reconciliation, and business validation for both Teamcenter environments.
- Engage subject matter experts and key users, coordinating demonstrations, communications, training inputs, and readiness activities with organisational change resources.
- Maintain the integrated project plan, RAID log, decisions, and actions; lead project communications and escalate resource, technical, and readiness constraints to programme leadership.
Skills and Experience
- At least 10 years of experience in project or programme management, PLM implementation, engineering transformation, or complex industrial digital transformation, preferably within Service or aftermarket environments.
- Demonstrable delivery experience with Teamcenter or a comparable enterprise PLM platform.
- Strong understanding of product structures and bills of materials, parts, documents, CAD, configuration, lifecycle management, and engineering and Service change processes.
- Experience translating business needs into requirements, process definitions, test scenarios, and acceptance criteria, supported by strong workshop facilitation, process mapping, prioritisation, and traceability skills.
- Hands-on experience coordinating functional testing, end-to-end scenarios, user acceptance testing, defect resolution, retesting, and business acceptance.
- Experience supporting data profiling, mapping, cleansing, migration trials, reconciliation, validation, and data-quality issue management.
- Strong knowledge of waterfall, agile, or hybrid delivery, including integrated plans, RAID management, dependencies, resources, executive reporting, and quality gates.
- Ability to align Service, business, IT, architecture, data, organisational change, and external delivery teams across multiple functions or locations.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and project planning and reporting tools.
- A hands-on, outcome-focused working style, with the confidence to work directly in PLM environments using real business data.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Operations Management, or a related discipline.
- A relevant Master's degree is advantageous.
- PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project-management certification is desirable.
- Agile or Scrum, Teamcenter or PLM, and Prosci certification are advantageous.
- Experience within energy, industrial equipment, aerospace, automotive, or another engineered-product environment is preferred.
Additional Requirements
- Candidates must meet the applicable UK Export Control requirements.