In this role, you will create cost transparency for components, assemblies, and complete machines through bottom-up calculations and should-cost models. Working closely with Engineering, Procurement, Supplier Operations, and our System Suppliers, you will evaluate design options, challenge supplier quotations, and identify cost improvement opportunities. This role complements our Cost Value Engineer with a dedicated focus on detailed cost calculation and should-cost analysis. Apply now and join our team in Munich!
- Cost Engineering & Modeling: You prepare and maintain bottom-up cost calculations and should-cost models for components, assemblies, and complete machines, while continuously improving costing assumptions, templates, and databases
- Cost Analysis & Technical Breakdown: You analyze drawings, BOMs, specifications, manufacturing assumptions, and supplier quotations to identify and structure key cost drivers
- Design-to-Cost & Optimization: You evaluate design alternatives, materials, and manufacturing concepts from a cost perspective and identify and quantify improvement opportunities across design, process, and sourcing
- Benchmarking & Decision Support: You conduct cost and benchmark analyses across suppliers, components, and manufacturing approaches and support make-or-buy decisions, supplier selection, and industrialization topics
- Supplier & Cross-Functional Collaboration: You support supplier negotiations with transparent cost breakdowns and work closely with Engineering, Procurement, Quality, and suppliers to assess cost impacts of design changes and ensure implementation quality
- Stakeholder Communication: You prepare structured, decision-ready analyses and management materials for internal stakeholders