Cost and Value Engineer
Siemens
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Can we energize society and fight climate change at the same time?
At Siemens Energy, we can. Our technology is key, but our people make the difference. Brilliant minds innovate. They connect, create, and keep us on track towards changing the world’s energy systems. Their spirit fuels our mission.
Our culture is defined by caring, agile, respectful, and accountable individuals. We value excellence of any kind. Sounds like you?
As a Cost Engineer, you will drive diverse projects and initiatives. The major objective of Cost and Value Engineering is the generation of high customer value at competitive target costs in product, project and solution business. Generating transparency in the respective cost and value drivers along the entire value chain by applying state of the art Cost and Value Engineering (CVE) methodology.
Your new role – challenging and future-oriented:
- Drive the integration of state-of-the art Cost and Value Engineering in the business processes
- Fosters cross-functional mindset change towards cost and value awareness
- Establish transparency in cost and value of products, systems and solutions and contribute improvement proposals to support PLM in Target Costing, R&D/Engineering in Design to Value, SCM in Supply Chain Productivity Improvement, Procurement in negotiations along the PLM / PM process
- Contribute to the competitiveness and profitability of products and solutions through the application of Cost and Value Engineering levers and methods
- Support the setting of competitive and at the same time achievable targets based on the assessment of customer requirements, competitors’ products, and solutions and on a clear judgment on our own and our suppliers’ capabilities
- Support definition and optimization of product architecture and component specifications to ensure an adequate product and solution design
- Support building the appropriate supply chain by making the right supplier selections, offshoring or onshoring decisions, respectively, and applying make or buy appropriately
- Support achieving optimal commercial conditions by feeding our negotiations with precise information on our suppliers’ actual and expected costs
- Foster a CVE network and company-wide knowledge exchange and contribute expertise to the network.
We don’t need superheroes, just super minds:
- Excellent communication and social skills to collaborate effectively with internal customers and suppliers
- Strong analytical skills to identify key cost drivers.
- Significant experience in should costing tools and methods
- Experience in optimization of cost and value improvement opportunities
- Experience in heavy industrial manufacturing processes. Strong preference for experience in modeling and analyzing costs of machined parts, large steel fabrications and acoustics.
- Strong in Microsoft Excel and proficiency in Microsoft Office software
- Flexibility to travel to external suppliers and factory locations
- Working experience with multi-cultural professionals and teams
- 8+ years of relevant professional experience within a global company, including 5+ years in Engineering
- Proficient command of English language in writing and speaking
- Bachelors or Master’s degree in Engineering
About the Team
At Siemens Energy, we enhance and innovate conventional and renewable power supply. Currently, we're reducing carbon emissions of existing assets and developing technologies that transform power generation applications.
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Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. We meet the growing energy demand across 90+ countries while ensuring our climate is protected. With more than 92,000 dedicated employees, we not only generate electricity for over 16% of the global community, but we’re also using our technology to help protect people and the environment.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
Rewards
● Career growth and development opportunities
● Supportive work culture
● Company paid Health and wellness benefits
● Paid Time Off and paid holidays
● Parental leave