PLM Solutions Engineer

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a talented PLM Solutions Engineer to join our team specializing in Systems/Information Technology for our Corporate organization in Columbus, IN .

• Drive alignment between business priorities and product strategy by collaborating with leadership and representing the voice of the customer using Lean‑Agile principles.
• Identify and prioritize user personas and their core problems to guide the creation of solutions that deliver meaningful customer and business value.
• Strengthen product direction by conducting customer interviews, capturing market trends, and translating insights into compelling problem statements and user stories.
• Lead backlog ownership by defining the Product Goal, maintaining a transparent and well‑prioritized product backlog, and ensuring readiness for Program Increment (PI) planning.
• Accelerate delivery quality by applying Behavior Driven Development (BDD), establishing clear acceptance criteria, and validating completed stories meet Definition of Done (DoD).
• Partner with System and Solution Architects to sequence enabler work and ensure technology decisions support long‑term product capabilities and scalability.
• Drive iteration success by shaping iteration goals, refining user stories just in time, and guiding teams as the primary source for story details and prioritization.
• Build influence across teams and the matrix organization by effectively communicating ideas, fostering alignment, and maintaining strong business relationships to maximize value delivery.

• Balances stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Business insight - Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.
• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer‑centric solutions.
• Global perspective - Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens.
• Manages conflict - Handling conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise.
• Agile Systems Thinking - Embraces a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system's constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems to ensure the economic success of the solution.
• Building High Performance Teams - Identifies and applies critical skills and Lean-Agile principles and practices in the creation of high‑performing Agile teams to construct high-quality, well designed technical solutions.
• Lean Agile and SAFe Mindset - Advocates for and leads others in the concepts of the Agile Manifesto and Lean thinking in support of adopting and applying the 9 SAFe principles and practices for the organization.
• Lean Portfolio Management, budgets, and Economic Framework - Applies Lean and systems thinking approaches in support of strategy, investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance; evaluates working systems; manages Epic investments and dynamic budget adjustments to minimize overhead through funding and empowering Value Streams while maintaining financial and fit‑for‑use governance to minimize overhead; assesses and supports decision rules that align to the financial objectives of the Solution to guide the economic decision‑making process.
• Planning and Managing Ceremonies - Plans, schedules, and leads ceremonies that create a cadence for the team to maximize productivity, promote collaboration, maintain transparency, and inspect and adapt so the team can continuously learn and improve.
• Program Backlog Management and User Story Elaboration - Identifies, refines, prioritizes, and sequences backlog items using Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) to ensure the economic success of the solution; determines the details of a product feature to ensure that any unanswered questions about it are answered so that development can proceed.
• Values differences - Recognizing the value that…