Components Engineer

☞ Barco

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Update day: 16-11-2025

Location: Kortrijk West Flanders

Category: Executive management Mechanical / Technical Maintenance Sales

Industry: IT

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Location: Kortrijk, BE
Date: Jan 18, 2022
Job ID: 4246
Components Engineer

Barco designs technology that makes everyday life a little better. Seeing beyond the image, we develop sight, sound, and sharing solutions to help you work together, share insights, and wow audiences. Our focus is on three core markets: Enterprise (from meeting and control rooms to corporate spaces), Healthcare (from the radiology department to the operating room), and Entertainment (from movie theaters to live events and attractions). With a team of over 3,300 employees, located all around the globe, we realized sales of 770.01 million euro in 2020.

Purpose of the job:



Accountable for the technical relationship with component manufacturers, the global technical coordination of off-the-shelf purchased components and the management of the OneBasket teams.



Main Accountabilities:Level 1 (black) / Level 2 (blue)



  • COMPONENT MANAGEMENT:
    • Maintains external contacts with manufacturers and suppliers with regards to roadmaps, technical & certification information, FAE networks
    • Management & optimalisation of the preferred manufacturers by rationalizing and assessing new candidates to replace non-performing ones
    • Assess new manufacturers wrt alternative requirement for continuous component availability during the life cycle of products
    • Maintains a technical characteristics summary by component
    • Limits the End-of-Life risks by maximal creation of multi-source components
    • Monitors and tags the life cycle of active components from Preferred to Not for New Developments to End of Life in several systems such as SAP, xDm, SQL, …
    • Follows up and processes discontinuation & change notifications by proposing alternatives when available & no major supply problems due to unexpected product discontinuations
    • Support of acquisitions and divestments by data mining & data cleansing
    • Assures the component creation is compliant with Barco’s Counterfeit Avoidance procedure
    • Executes the component management strategy by component basket for Barco R&D worldwide
    • Assess new Technologies & propose these to the OneBasket teams and phase out old technologies
    • General support to Procurement (Logistic Buyers, Incoming Inspection, CPEs and PPEs)
    • Drives early manufacturer involvement and performs BOM risk analysis
    • Gathers the R&D needs as input for the component management strategy
    • Defines the component management strategy by component basket for Barco R&D worldwide, by defining component specifications/requirements based upon future product specifications/requirements
    • Collects and manages additional non-functional technical information such as certificates (Green, Commodity codes, COO, ECCN, FMDs, Safety certificates), simulation models, …
    • Becomes SAP master company key User for standard components


  • COMPONENT BASKET TEAM:
    • Leads the component basket teams, by being a NPI delegate to secure early NPI participation & component validation and standardisation, defines and applies a strict procedure for component basket exceptions
    • Supports the cost & value engineers towards cost effective products (PBA’s, mechanics, …) by installing component basket
    • Communicates to all stakeholders and present achievements to a broader Barco audience (on a regular basis)


  • ORGANIZATION:
    • Coaches’ component selection competence with internal customers towards the use of components from Barco’s Component Basket only (preferred components)
    • Drives early manufacturer involvement
    • Organizes in-house manufacturer workshops, roadmap reviews, seminars, trainings, demo’s for the engineers
    • Proposes and implement process improvements


  • REPORTING:
    • Gathers data and assists with compiling a result oriented and transparent reporting
    • Manages the KPI reporting of the Component Engineering team and/or OneBasket teams

Required education, experience, skills and competencies:



Education:

  • Master degree in engineering science, or equal by experience
  • Additional training in component management and sourcing

Experience:

Minimum of 3 years of engineering experience in a design environment or equivalent

Minimum of 3 years of Component engineering experience in a design environment or equivalent


Skills:

Professional skills:

  • Component management: technically
  • Category portfolio management
  • Market expertise of electronic or electromechanical off-the-shelf-components (related to his commodity portfolio)

Procedures:

  • User knowledge of technical coordination related procedures and instructions

Systems:

  • ERP: SAP
  • Silicon Expert, xDm
  • SQL, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access: intermediate level
  • Web based applications

Languages:

  • English; local native language(s)

Differentiating criteria between Level 1 and Level 2 (see blue text in document):

  • Maturity & Knowledge of the accountabilities
  • Executing or Defining strategies
  • Complexity of commodity
  • Active or pro-active approach

Level 1 Competences:

Analysis minded, Result driven

Customer oriented, Innovative, Enthusiastic

Building and maintaining relations

Integrity, Proactive, Meticulous

Team player, communicative


Additional Level 2 competences:

People management, Negotiating and Influencing skills

Pro-active approach, anticipating on topics that may/will occur in time

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Deadline: 31-12-2025

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