PLM and CAM/CAI Integration Engineer

Immediate need for a talented PLM and CAM/CAI Integration Engineer. This is a 06+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Costa Mesa , CA (Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 26-34798

Pay Range: $90/hr - $95/hour.  Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Configuring the NX CAM environment: customer defaults, templates, operation and geometry templates, and the configuration that makes programming from a released MBD source model the default path
• Building and governing the tooling, fixturing, and machine library as managed Teamcenter objects - versioned, validated against physical assets, and updatable through a defined governance path - so programmers select from a current library rather than re-create assets per program
• Developing and verifying post-processors for the machine tools in scope against the physical machines, with a verification record per post-processor covering motion types, cycles, and controller behavior
• Configuring CAM-to-model associativity in Teamcenter, binding CAM programs to specific item revisions and defining the action raised when a source model revises
• Configuring post-processing and DNC delivery within Teamcenter so NC output is a controlled object tied to the program revision and machine, and delivery to the machine controller runs from the system rather than from a file share or programmer desktop
• Implementing Vericut integration with NX CAM and Teamcenter, including simulation result management and verification gating
• Implementing Third Wave Systems integration, including the feedback path that returns optimized parameters to the CAM program and cutting-data library without manual re-entry
• Implementing InnovMetric PolyWorks integration, including the model and characteristic data path into PolyWorks and the result return path into Teamcenter with characteristic identity and item revision preserved
• Defining and implementing integration architecture for non-NX CAM and non-PolyWorks CAI platforms against the same Teamcenter data model, with the same traceability and release behavior
• Implementing Teamcenter business objects, item types, dataset types, relations, revision rules, status behavior, workflows, and access rules per the approved configuration design
• Executing migration of existing CAM programs, post-processors, machine models, tooling libraries, simulation assets, and inspection assets into managed Teamcenter configuration
• Interviewing CAM programmers, manufacturing engineers, machinists, metrology engineers, and quality engineers to elicit requirements, and translating those into Teamcenter configuration designs and integration architecture specifications before configuration work begins
• Delivering configuration documentation sufficient for an administrator to perform a defined configuration change unaided
• Authoring and delivering user documentation, work instructions, and training curricula for CAM programmers, manufacturing engineers, machinists, and metrology staff
• Maintaining the residual-gap register identifying every capability the delivered environment does not yet support, with a recommended closure path for each item
• WHAT THIS ROLE DOES NOT OWN
• Stated explicitly, because the scope is broad.
• Production CAM programming of parts. Programs produced under this role are validation and reference cases, not production release deliverables.
• Authorship of manufacturing methods and process definitions. The configured environment supports methods defined elsewhere; this role builds the environment.
• NX Open custom tooling development beyond the configuration and integration scripting required by the tool standup. Bespoke automation is a separate scope.
• Procurement of software licenses, hardware, or metrology equipment.
• Authorship of general MBE standards, style guides, or cross-program MBE training curricula. Tool-specific documentation and training remain in scope.
• Engineering management. You will have no direct reports.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience: 

• Key skills; PLM, NX CAM , GD&T
• 8 or more years implementing, configuring, and integrating Teamcenter in a production manufacturing environment, with demonstrated experience covering business object and data model definition, dataset types, relations, revision rules, status and release behavior, workflow design, and access manager rules.
• Teamcenter administration without configuration depth does not satisfy this requirement.
• Demonstrated NX CAM implementation experience, including environment configuration, templates, machine models and kinematics, tooling and cutting-data library management, and post-processor development and verification against physical machines.
• Demonstrated Vericut implementation experience, including machine and control configuration, integration with a CAM system and a PLM or PDM system, and verification result management.
• Demonstrated experience integrating machining process modeling or optimization software into a CAM and PLM environment.
• Third Wave Systems experience is the strongest signal; comparable optimization toolchain integration is considered.
• Demonstrated InnovMetric PolyWorks implementation experience, including PolyWorks data management and integration with PLM for inspection result return with item revision and characteristic identity preserved.
• Working knowledge of machining practice sufficient to verify that a post-processor output, a simulation configuration, and an optimization result are technically correct rather than merely syntactically valid.
• You must be able to evaluate the output, not just the process that produced it.
• Working knowledge of GD&T per ASME Y14.5 and of model-based inspection practice, sufficient to configure characteristic data paths correctly and evaluate whether the inspection data that returns to Teamcenter is the right data in the right form.
• Demonstrated experience conducting stakeholder interviews with engineering and manufacturing domain experts and translating the outputs into written, reviewable requirements and configuration design specifications.
• Demonstrated experience migrating legacy manufacturing assets into managed PLM configuration, including handling assets of uncertain provenance.
• Able to be on site in Costa Mesa regularly. This role does not work remotely.
• U.S. Person status is required, as this position needs to access export controlled data.
• Experience with Teamcenter Manufacturing, Shop Floor Connect, or Teamcenter Quality, and with how manufacturing BOM, routing, and work instruction data are managed within Teamcenter rather than alongside it.
• Experience with QIF (ISO 23952) as a measurement data exchange format, including the Client limitations of specific tool-to-tool exchanges and how to state those limitations in architecture documentation.
• Experience integrating a Teamcenter-managed CAM and inspection environment with a manufacturing execution system such as Forge, Siemens Opcenter, or Solumina/iBase-t, specifically for work order, program delivery, and inspection result consumption.
• Experience with the Staged Modeling process or an equivalent stage-based manufacturing model practice in NX, and with how staged models are consumed as CAM source geometry.
• Familiarity with the NSE MBE Maturity Index and what practice distinguishes Level 4 (Trusted MBD) and above from lower states, applicable to Teamcenter configuration and tool integration design.
• Experience with MIL-STD-31000 Technical Data Packages and AS9102 First Article Inspection, and with how those requirements shape what must be managed and traceable in a Teamcenter configuration.
• Experience in shipbuilding, submarine construction, aerospace, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment where configuration changes require documented evidence of test and promotion.
• Experience with NX Open scripting for configuration and integration tasks, at the level of writing or modifying scripts that bind to a Teamcenter data model.
• Prior experience in a greenfield PLM and CAM environment standup, as opposed to extending or maintaining an established configuration

Our client is a leading Defense Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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