Zipline delivers food, groceries, and medicine in minutes with fast, reliable, zero emission delivery. Backed by Sequoia and Techstars.
About the role
As the PLM & Configuration Lead on our Configuration & Change Management team, you will define and own the configuration management framework that ensures product integrity from early engineering development through mass production and field operations. You will set the strategic direction for how we identify parts, structure bills of materials, manage complex configurations, and govern product releases so hardware changes are accurate, traceable, and ready for implementation. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Establish and enforce configuration identification standards, part-numbering schemas, naming conventions, and revision control practices across engineering and manufacturing teams
- Define multi-level BOM structures and the relationships between engineering BOMs, manufacturing BOMs, and service BOMs
- Establish standards for BOM accuracy, revisions, alternates, effectivity, and traceability across design, manufacturing, and service engineering
- Work closely with the PLM Technical Lead and development team to provide functional requirements, product-data structure definitions, and business logic that guide custom development
- Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT), validate that delivered capabilities meet the original business intent, and lead functional troubleshooting
- Identify and resolve product-data integrity issues across PLM, ERP, and related systems, partnering with Software Engineering when resolution requires tooling changes
More about this role
Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.
Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.
Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
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