Product Cost Engineer (m/f/d)

 Req ID 68917 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:

• Lead, coordinate Target Costing and Target Cost Achievement for mandated projects;
• Support Sales with Cost Disclosure incl. Cost Breakdowns in front of the ZF customers;
• Proactive responsible for Design-to-Cost-, Cost-Down-Initiatives (e.g. workshop moderation), and commercial evaluation of technical concepts/designs;
• Provide Cost transparency on Product level, monitoring, reporting, and forecasting for Design-to-Cost/Target Cost Achievements;
• Support Benchmarking and tear down workshops with commercial evaluations;
• Create, check, and provide Product (and component) Cost calculations on Best Practice level;
• First contact person for consulting support, and interface/sparring partner for internal stakeholders (Sales, Finance, Operations, Purchasing & Engineering);
• Develop best practice procedures, and creation of knowledge data base.

Required skills and experience / main competences:

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

Why you should join ZF LIFETEC

• You will work in a varied, innovative work environment, in an International team;
•  Full of challenges and high-level professional activities;
• Competitive compensation and benefits;
• Continuous learning opportunities;
• Discounts for employees with several partners;
• Flexible working hours.

Be part of our ZF team as Product Cost Engineer (m/f/d) and apply now!

Contact

Ana Rita Pereira Martins