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Senior Manager Product Structure & Systems (PLM/MES)
📅 Mar 16
📍 🇨🇭 Zurich - Hybrid🎸 Senior⚒️ Operations Manager📢 🇬🇧 English Required📢 🇩🇪 German Required💼 Full-Time
Product Lifecycle Management (plm)Manufacturing Execution Systems (mes)Product Configuration ManagementBOM Governance
📜 Description
- Govern multi-level Engineering, Manufacturing, and Service BOMs, product configurations, variants, and component reuse.
- Own the PLM roadmap, implementation, administration, release workflows, and configuration baselines.
- Integrate product and manufacturing data across CAD, PLM, ERP, and MES.
- Define MES production routings, assembly sequences, and digital work instructions with Manufacturing Engineering.
- Lead engineering change processes and improve workflows to reduce NPI cycle times and support manufacturing scalability.
- Audit product data and maintain as-built traceability across production systems.
🛠️ Requirements
- Master's degree in Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Industrial Engineering.
- 7+ years of experience in configuration, PLM, and MES system management, administration, and implementation, ideally with hardware or complex mechatronic products.
- Track record leading cross-functional PLM projects from roadmap design through delivery.
- Knowledge of PLM architectures and MES systems, including integration with ERP, CAD, and quality systems.
- Understanding of processes across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and service.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, including engagement with senior leadership.
- Experience mentoring or training teams in system adoption and process maturity; fluency in English required, German a strong plus.
Full job description
ANYbotics is a fast-growing tech company dedicated to shaping the future of mobile robotics across multiple industries. Join our highly talented and motivated team of more than 200 people and work on cutting-edge robot technology.
The Opportunity
As the Senior Manager of Product Structure, PLM & MES, you are the architect of the digital backbone that connects our robotic innovations to real-world production. In this high-impact leadership role, you will strategically own the implementation and evolution of our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Manufacturing Execution (MES) systems and processes to scale with a rapidly growing product and manufacturing organization ("Digital Thread").
You will govern the product architecture for our complex mechatronic systems, ensuring that our Engineering BOM (EBOM), Manufacturing BOM (MBOM), and Service BOM (SBOM) are perfectly synchronized.
This is not just a systems role — it’s a business transformation mandate. You will define and execute the PLM and MES roadmap in collaboration with executive stakeholders, ensuring alignment between engineering, operations, product, and after-sales service functions. You’ll help us build an integrated, enterprise-grade ecosystem that accelerates product development, enables traceability, and scales product data excellence.
The Market & Our Technology
ANYbotics transforms industrial plants in the energy, process, and utility sector by introducing robotics to a wide range of novel applications that so far were beyond reach. Our customers are large asset operators and industrial service providers pioneering the use of robotics technology for inspection and maintenance. Our mobile robot ANYmal uses legs for extreme mobility in complex environments, camera- and LIDAR-based sensing for full autonomy and obstacle avoidance, and AI for high-quality and consistent inspection results. We develop numerous customized hardware systems, including the entire robotic platform, actuators, sensors, inspection payloads, charging systems, and all related ANYbotics mechanical hardware.
ANYbotics is a fast-growing tech company dedicated to shaping the future of mobile robotics across multiple industries. Join our highly talented and motivated team of more than 200 people and work on cutting-edge robot technology. We offer you a very exciting and dynamic work environment, the opportunity to become part of a fast-growing company and an ambitious team that is on a mission to change the industrial inspection market, a chance to leverage your experience and bring in your own ideas, a fair market salary, an attractive employee stock ownership plan, and a job in the city of Zurich. Agency Policy: We are not currently partnering with external search firms or recruitment agencies. Any profiles or resumes submitted to ANYbotics employees without a prior written agreement will be considered public disclosure and the property of ANYbotics, involving no liability or fee for subsequent hiring.Your Impact
- BOM Mastery: Define and govern multi-level BOM structures for complex robotic systems, ensuring alignment across Engineering, Manufacturing, and Service.
- Modular Architecture: Support platform-based development by managing product configurations, variants, and component reuse strategies.
- Data Standards: Enforce rigorous part-numbering schemes, revision control, and BOM rules to maintain 100% data integrity.
- PLM System Ownership & Digital Thread
- Platform Management: Own the strategic roadmap, implementation and functional administration of the PLM environment (e.g., Windchill, Teamcenter, CIM Database).
- System Integration: Manage the technical "Digital Thread" between CAD → PLM → ERP → MES, ensuring real-time synchronization of product and manufacturing data.
- Release Management: Oversee the lifecycle states, access controls, and workflows for all product releases and configuration baselines.
- MES & Manufacturing Data Integration
- Production Execution: Ensure the flawless transfer of product structures from PLM to the MES for production execution.
- Process Definition: Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering to define production routings, assembly sequences, and digital work instructions in the MES.
- Traceability: Maintain "As-Built" traceability, ensuring consistency between MES production data and ERP production orders.
- Engineering Change (ECM) & Continuous Improvement
- Change Governance: Lead the Engineering Change Request (ECR) and Order (ECO) processes, ensuring controlled propagation of changes across all systems.
- Optimization: Drive continuous improvement in workflows to reduce NPI (New Product Introduction) cycle times and improve manufacturing scalability.
- Audit & Compliance: Conduct regular product data audits and implement corrective actions to ensure "Single Source of Truth" reliability.
Your Profile
7+ years of experience in Configuration, PLM and MES system management, administration and implementation, ideally in hardware or complex mechatronic product environments
Proven track record leading cross-functional PLM projects with enterprise impact — from roadmap design to hands-on delivery
Strong technical knowledge of PLM architectures (e.g., Teamcenter, Windchill, Arena, CIM Database), MES systems (e.g. Tulip, Opcenter) and their integration with ERP, CAD, and quality systems
Deep understanding of business processes spanning engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and service
Highly effective communicator with the ability to engage and influence at all levels, including senior leadership and management
Demonstrated mentoring, training, or enablement of teams in system adoption and process maturity Fluency in English required; German is a strong plus
Bonus Points
Familiarity with quality management systems and industry regulations, e.g. ATEX directives
Experience in AI-enabled or robotics-based product companies
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