Req ID Ponte de Lima, Portugal
We are looking for a new colleague to strengthen our Cost Engineering Team in Ponte de Lima, Portugal
Main accountabilities, responsabilities and deliverables:
1. Lead, coordinate Target Costing and Target Cost Achievement for mandated projects;
2. Support Sales with Cost Disclosure incl. Cost Breakdowns in front of the ZF customers;
3. Proactive responsible for Design-to-Cost-, Cost-Down-Initiatives (e.g. workshop moderation), and commercial evaluation of technical concepts/designs;
4. Provide Cost transparency on Product level, monitoring, reporting, and forecasting for Design-to-Cost/Target Cost Achievements;
5. Support Benchmarking and tear down workshops with commercial evaluations;
6. Create, check, and provide Product (and component) Cost calculations on Best Practice level;
7. First contact person for consulting support, and interface/sparring partner for internal stakeholders (Sales, Finance, Operations, Purchasing & Engineering);
8. Develop best practice procedures, and creation of knowledge data base.
Required skills and experience / main competences:
9. Degree in Manufacturing/Engineering/MBA/Business Engineering/Industrial Engineering (Bachelor, Master, Diploma);
10. 3 years plus of experience in similar roles;
11. Distinct cost awareness and good knowledge of a variety of manufacturing processes and components;
12. Project Management experience with a holistic process understanding and a structured way of working;
13. Strong communicator, flexible, self-motivated and with an ability to work collaboratively with others on own initiatives;
14. Fluent in Portuguese and English. Additional languages preferred.
Why you should join ZF LIFETEC
15. You will work in a varied, innovative work environment, in an International team;
16. Full of challenges and high-level professional activities;
17. Competitive compensation and benefits;
18. Continuous learning opportunities;
19. Discounts for employees with several partners;
20. Flexible working hours.