PLM Consultant

Lincoln / Hybrid

PAYE - Competitive Market Rate

Contract - 6 months

The PLM Consultant will operate as a Use Case Lead within a major PLM transformation programme, supporting the design, refinement, and adoption of new PLM capabilities across the business. This role is business-facing rather than technical and involves interpreting requirements, engaging stakeholders, shaping backlogs, and ensuring successful functional delivery across PLM capability areas such as Documents, Requirements, PDP, Classification and MBSE.

You will act as a business proxy where internal resources are limited, ensuring each capability area is fully understood, documented, prioritised, and aligned with programme objectives.

Key ResponsibilitiesBusiness Requirements & Backlog Leadership

• Lead requirement gathering with business users and SMEs
• Translate requirements into clear user stories, functional specifications and acceptance criteria
• Own and manage the use-case backlog for assigned PLM capability areas
• Shape sprint goals and support Agile delivery cycles

Stakeholder Coordination & Alignment

• Facilitate collaboration between business stakeholders, SMEs, solution architects and programme leadership
• Represent your capability area in design reviews, dependency mapping and alignment sessions
• Identify gaps between current processes and future state designs, supporting business alignment and process harmonisation

Functional Delivery Support

• Support testing, validation and UAT activities to ensure delivered functionality meets business expectations
• Support Show & Tell sessions, business readiness activities, sandbox testing and training content inputs
• Help drive user adoption and promote new PLM ways of working

Data, Documentation & Governance

• Identify any data migration needs related to your capability area
• Ensure documentation remains clear, structured and up to date
• Support compliance with programme governance and delivery standards

Skills & ExperienceEssential

• Strong PLM background with experience supporting business-facing PLM workstreams
• Proven experience gathering requirements, writing user stories, and defining functional specifications
• Experience coordinating cross-functional stakeholders (engineering, operations, quality, manufacturing)
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex information into clear business terms
• Experience supporting UAT, validation and functional testing cycles
• Comfortable leading workshops, discussions and requirement walkthroughs
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence or similar tools

Desirable

• Experience with Teamcenter or other major PLM systems
• Exposure to MBSE, digital thread concepts or engineering system methodologies
• Understanding of organisational change management principles
• Experience working in large-scale transformation programmes

Personal Attributes

• Confident communicator able to engage stakeholders at all levels
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset
• Self-starter capable of working independently as a business proxy
• Structured, detail-oriented and comfortable in fast-moving environments
• Collaborative and proactive in resolving blockers and driving clarity