Cost Engineer

Job Description & Skill Requirement

Key Responsibilities :

• Provide guidance to Designers / Design Engineers for proposed new or modified designs to achieve required function at minimum cost.
• Apply design for assembly (DFA) and design for manufacturing (DFM) tools to analyze proposed new designs and propose potential improvements.
• Work with engineering on a Design to Target approach in early product development planning
• Develop cost targets for mechanical engine parts (Castings, Stamped parts, Extrusions, and injection molded) based on information ranging from sample parts, CAD models and engineering drawings.
• Develop cost targets for electrical engine parts (Harness, PCB, PCB assemblies, DC motors, Batteries) based on information ranging from schematics, CAD models and engineering drawings.
• Provide should-cost analysis reports to procurement team for supplier negotiation purposes.
• Do competitive benchmarking / teardown analysis and develop should cost models.
• Participate in value analysis (VA) and value engineering (VE) activities and generate cost reduction ideas on current production products.
• Present project cost updates along with risks and opportunities to higher management on monthly basis.
• Be a resource of cost information on assigned projects for the entire organization (upper management, marketing, sales, engineering, financial, manufacturing, etc).
• Provide the organization with monthly cost reports and cost tracking of current product.
• Diversity of thought and experiences is fundamental when imagining the unimaginable. Certain skillsets / experiences are necessary; however, others can be developed along the way.

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