Senior Component Engineer - Lifecycle & Sourcing Lead

Overhead Door; Brownsville (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Overhead Door is seeking an experienced Senior Component Engineer to lead selection, qualification, and lifecycle management of electronic components for Genie residential and commercial products. You will work with Electrical Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, and suppliers to ensure performance, reliability, cost, availability, compliance, and manufacturability requirements.

The successful candidate will guide component selection early in design, mitigate supply chain risks

Qualifications

• Experience evaluating and qualifying electronic components used in PCB assemblies.
• Strong understanding of component specifications, derating principles, thermal performance, reliability, failure mechanisms, and qualification methodologies.
• Experience assessing alternate components for electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, regulatory, and lifecycle compatibility.
• Familiarity with BOM risk management, lifecycle planning, PCN reviews, obsolescence mitigation, and sourcing strategies.

Responsibilities

• Manage the selection, qualification, lifecycle management, and sourcing strategy for electronic components from product concept through end of life.
• Work with engineering teams to select components meeting performance, reliability, compliance, manufacturability, cost, availability, and lifecycle requirements.
• Provide technical expertise for active and passive components including semiconductors, microcontrollers, power devices, relays, capacitors, resistors, inductors, RF components, connectors, and related technologies.
• Evaluate, qualify, and approve new components and alternate sources through testing and validation.
• Develop dual-source and alternate-source strategies to mitigate supply chain and lifecycle risks.
• Assess component changes and substitutions through engineering reviews, testing, reliability analysis, and system validation.
• Conduct BOM risk assessments to identify lifecycle, supply chain, compliance, counterfeit, lead-time, and cost risks.
• Monitor supplier roadmaps, PCNs, NRND notifications, and end-of-life announcements, and develop mitigation plans.
• Lead obsolescence management activities, including alternate component qualification, redesign recommendations, last-time buys, and inventory strategies.
• Partner with Strategic Sourcing and Supply Chain teams to balance technical requirements with cost, lead time, and supply continuity.
• Support supplier engagement, quality investigations, failure analysis, qualification reviews, and corrective action activities.
• Assist with new product launches, production ramp-ups, and component shortage mitigation efforts.
• Maintain approved component databases, specifications, qualification records, and lifecycle documentation.
• Establish and continuously improve component engineering standards, preferred parts lists, qualification methodologies, and risk management processes.
• Communicate component-related risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to engineering, sourcing, quality, manufacturing, and leadership teams.

Skills

Leadership

Problem solving

Communication

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

PADS

ECAD tools

Job description

Overhead Door is seeking an experienced Senior Component Engineer to lead selection, qualification, and lifecycle management of electronic components for Genie residential and commercial products. You will work with Electrical Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, and suppliers to ensure performance, reliability, cost, availability, compliance, and manufacturability requirements.

The successful candidate will guide component selection early in design, mitigate supply chain risks