Product Cost Engineer (m/f/d). Ponte de Lima

Product Cost Engineer (m/f/d).
Ponte de Lima
Ponte de Lima, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

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Client:

ZF Group

Location:

Ponte de Lima, Portugal

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

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26

Posted:

23. 01. 2025

Expiry Date:

09. 03. 2025

Job Description:

We are looking for a new colleague to strengthen our Cost Engineering Team.

Main accountabilities, responsibilities and deliverables:

1. Lead, coordinate Target Costing and Target Cost Achievement for mandated projects;
2. Support Sales with Cost Disclosure including Cost Breakdowns in front of the ZF customers;
3. Proactively responsible for Design-to-Cost and 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 database.

Required skills and experience / main competencies:

1. Degree in Manufacturing/Engineering/MBA/Business Engineering/Industrial Engineering (Bachelor, Master, Diploma);
2. 3+ years of experience in similar roles;
3. Distinct cost awareness and good knowledge of a variety of manufacturing processes and components;
4. Project management experience with a holistic process understanding and a structured way of working;
5. Strong communicator, flexible,
   - motivated, and with the ability to work collaboratively with others on own initiatives;
6. Fluent in Portuguese and English. Additional languages preferred.

Why you should join ZF LIFETEC:

1. You will work in a varied, innovative work environment, in an international team;
2. Full of challenges and
   - level professional activities;
3. Competitive compensation and benefits;
4. Continuous learning opportunities;
5. Discounts for employees with several partners.