Technical Administrator

Job Description

Position: Erembodegem Technical Administrator & Sustainability Officer – Accessories BU

Organization:

• Business Unit: Accessories BU (ABU)
• Function: Technical Dpt
• Location: Erembodegem (Belgium – Flanders)
• Report to: Local Technical Manager (Erembodegem) or Product Line Manager (TBC)

Purpose

The Technical Administrator & Sustainability Officer supports the Erembodegem Accessories site in the administration of technical data and the deployment of sustainability requirements for our product portfolio.

The role contributes to:

• Ensuring accurate, up‑to‑date and consistent technical data in ERP and PLM systems (items, Bills of Material, CR/CN, documentation).
• Supporting the implementation of product environmental assessments, including LCA studies and EPD/PEP Ecopassport dossiers for products manufactured at Erembodegem (and possible support to other sites).
• Providing reliable technical and environmental data to internal stakeholders (R&D, Product Line Management, Industrialization, Production, Quality, Sales, Customer Service).
• Strengthening the sustainability profile of the Accessories BU in line with Nexans’ ESG roadmap and customer expectations.

Areas of responsibility / Main Business expectations

• Technical administration of CR/CN, items and BOM in ERP
  • Register, update and follow up Change Requests (CR) and Change Notices (CN) related to Erembodegem products, in line with ABU procedures.
  • Create and maintain material and item masters in the ERP system (codes, descriptions, technical attributes, classifications).
  • Create, update and validate Bills of Material (BOM) for finished products and components, ensuring alignment with drawings, specifications and manufacturing routing.
  • Check consistency and completeness of technical data before release (units of measure, alternative items, revision level, effectivity dates, etc.).
  • Collaborate with Industrialization, Production, Quality and Purchasing to ensure that CR/CN, items and BOM changes are correctly implemented and understood.
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of ERP data quality (data cleansing, standardization of naming rules, simplification of structures).
• PLM administration and document control
  • Support the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) process for selected aspects (creation of product structures, document linking, status updates).
  • Assist engineers and product line managers in registering and maintaining technical documentation (drawings, specifications, test reports, approvals, certificates…) in PLM and related repositories.
  • Ensure that release rules and access rights are respected for controlled documents.
  • Help harmonize document naming, versioning and storage rules for the Erembodegem site, contribute to harmonization of processes in the Business Unit.
  • Act as a first‑level reference point for PLM/technical data questions from local teams (where to store, how to classify, which status to use, etc.).
• Sustainability: LCA, EPD and PEP Ecopassport support
  • Collect and structure the input data required for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and EPD/PEP Ecopassport calculations for Erembodegem products (materials, weights, energy consumption, scrap, packaging, transport, end‑of‑life assumptions).
  • Work in close collaboration with Nexans sustainability/LCA experts to prepare and validate product models.
  • Contribute to the preparation, update and consistency checks of environmental declarations (EPD, PEP Ecopassport, other customer‑specific formats).
  • Help maintain a local database of environmental indicators for key products and components manufactured at Erembodegem.
  • Support responses to customer sustainability requests (questionnaires, documentation, CO₂/footprint data) in coordination with Sales, Product Line Management and Quality.
  • Monitor and flag changes in product design or process that may impact environmental declarations and therefore require updates.
• Data analysis, reporting and continuous improvement
  • Prepare standard reports and extracts (e.g. item lists, BOM overviews, CR/CN status, environmental data summaries) for internal stakeholders.
  • Contribute to data checks and simple analyses to identify inconsistencies, missing information or anomalies in ERP/PLM and environmental data.
  • Propose and follow up improvement actions to streamline technical administration and sustainability data flows (simplified templates, checklists, standard operating procedures).
  • Support lessons‑learned activities related to data or sustainability topics and help capitalize best practices for future projects and product launches.