Manager, Global Components

About the Role

The Manager, Global Component Engineering leads a global team of engineered-component subject matter experts (SMEs) responsible for development, qualification, and continuous improvement of key components across all BAC product lines. This role reduces supply chain risk and total cost through qualification of alternate and backup suppliers for engineered components (e.g., fans, pumps, valves, specialized materials), ensuring availability, resilience, and competitive sourcing across global regions. The role owns the end-to-end component engineering capability, including component selection, design integration, robust qualification (testing, validation, and documentation), and lifecycle management. The team ensures components meet performance, reliability, cost, and regulatory requirements while supporting both new product development and existing product platforms.

The Manager establishes standards, processes, and metrics for component engineering and works cross-functionally with Product Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Quality to ensure component solutions enable strong product performance and business outcomes.

Scope

The Manager, Global Components reports to the Sr. Global Engineering Manager and leads a global team of engineers and designers. This role operates across product platforms and regions, collaborating closely with Product Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and Manufacturing to define and execute component strategies. The position drives consistent component engineering practices, qualification processes, and supplier integration across the global organization, directly impacting product performance, cost, quality, and supply chain continuity. The Components team functions as a Center of Excellence (COE), providing technical stewardship of the discipline across BAC, including standards and methods. Through a matrix model, the team offers technical leadership and governance over similar SME resources in other areas of Global & Regional Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the global component engineering and qualification process, including component selection, design integration, validation testing, and release for production.
• Establish and govern component qualification standards, including test plans, execution, reporting, and documentation to ensure reliable and repeatable results.
• Ensure strong correlation between component testing, system performance, and field reliability.
• Partner with Global Supply Chain to identify, qualify, and validate alternate and backup suppliers, reducing supply chain risk and improving cost competitiveness.
• Drive component cost-out initiatives through design optimization, supplier engagement, and competitive sourcing strategies.
• Lead the team to deliver on-time completion of component qualification projects, sustaining activities, and design changes; manage priorities, resources, and schedules across multiple concurrent projects and product platforms.
• Provide technical leadership to ensure components meet performance, reliability, regulatory, and manufacturability requirements.
• Provide COE coordination/guidance to Mechanical engineers on other Global & Regional Engineering teams working on component qualification or application.
• Offer Component engineering/qualification COE expertise to other engineering teams as needed.
• Guide engineering teams on component selection and system integration, including performance tradeoffs and lifecycle considerations.
• Maintain and grow expertise in product applications, system interactions, and component behavior.
• Own component category specifications, drawings, and configuration management.
• Develop and maintain standardized processes, tools, and best practices for component engineering and qualification.
• Ensure test data, analysis, and documentation are accurate, traceable, and effectively used for decision-making.
• Establish and track key metrics for component performance, qualification cycle time, cost reduction, and supplier diversification.
• Lead, coach, and develop a global team of engineers and designers, building technical capability and ensuring strong execution.
• Establish clear expectations, accountability, and performance objectives aligned with business and engineering goals.
• Drive continuous improvement in component performance, cost, quality, and qualification processes.
• Ensure compliance with global regulatory standards (CTI, Eurovent, UL, ASME, CE, PED, etc.).
• Foster a culture of teamwork, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Travel semi-regularly to Global BAC Design Centers (Shanghai, Jessup, Heist) and occasionally to manufacturing facilities, suppliers, or trade shows; combined travel up to 35%, including internationally.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering; Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum 7–10 years of engineering experience with a BS degree or 7–10 years with an MS degree.
• Minimum of 5 years of product development experience preferred.
• Experience with fluid flow, heat transfer, airflow, and Design of Experiments; HALT (or equivalent) experience preferred.
• Familiarity with engineering selections for components and equipment, such as fans, pumps, and piping.
• Ability to research technical information from online sources, textbooks, and journals.
• Sound and/or vibration measurement and analysis preferred.
• Ability to interpret results of FEA/CFD and identify potential flaws in setup.
• Experience managing a group budget.
• Intermediate skills in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word; basic project management skills preferred.

Skills

• Effective communication, written and verbal, with a globally diverse audience.
• Ability to work independently and manage design teams to translate engineering requirements into product line components, subsystems, and products.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams (engineering management, product management, manufacturing, and supply chain) to develop project scopes and timelines.
• Understanding of product/component function, reliability, and quality requirements.
• Ability to manage multiple teams running concurrent projects in parallel.
• Collaboration with Quality, Reliability, Manufacturing, and Sourcing to implement key metrics into product design and ensure reliability goals are achieved.
• Understanding of HVAC/Refrigeration, circulating air blower systems, heating & cooling systems (including refrigeration psychrometrics), and/or electrical system requirements to assess internal and supplier data.
• Strong time management and product development skills.

Working Conditions

• Standard 40-hour workweek (8:30 AM–5:00 PM with flexible start/finish times).
• Travel, both domestic and international, up to 35% of the time.
• Occasional evening/weekend hours required, often manageable remotely.
• Primarily sedentary office work; periodic travel to manufacturing facilities may involve medium physical activity.
• Close visual acuity required for computer work and virtual models.
• Typically indoor conditions; occasional exposure to heat, cold, humidity, and noise during manufacturing facility visits.

Pay

BAC Hiring Compensation Range: $108,200 – $185,200.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off.
• 401k retirement plan.
• Employee stock ownership plan.
• Eligibility to participate in an annual bonus incentive program.