Manufacturing Cost Engineer
Manufacturing Cost Engineer
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About the Job:
Join our dynamic team as a Manufacturing Cost Engineer where youll play a critical role in driving profitability and operational excellence. Youll be responsible for conducting comprehensive cost and feasibility analyses for new tooling programs while ensuring we meet customer expectations and maintain competitive positioning. This role offers the opportunity to work cross-functionally with Sales Engineering Operations and Purchasing teams to optimize our quoting processes and support continuous improvement initiatives. Youll be at the forefront of evaluating manufacturing feasibility developing cost models and identifying opportunities to enhance productivity across our operations.
Responsibilities:
- Cost Analysis & Feasibility Assessment: Determine adequacy and manufacturing feasibility of customer-supplied part data ensuring optimal costing of new tooling programs
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with sales teams to review customer information part geometry and technical requirements
- Tooling & Process Development: Develop mold specifications for tooling quotation procurement assess impact on molding machine selection and processing parameters
- Supplier Management: Prepare customer data for quotation with supply base assist in supplier selection based on core competencies and review supplier quotations for design reasonableness and cost effectiveness
- Technical Documentation: Prepare comprehensive technical documentation for customer quotations including detailed cost element analysis data sources assumptions and methodologies
- Cost Optimization: Apply innovative thinking to manufacturing processes to provide customers with optimal cost estimates and identify productivity improvement opportunities
- Project Support: Support project teams with pre-production activities at toolmakers and ensure quotes reflect continuous improvement initiatives
- Process Improvement: Collaborate with Engineering and Operations to enhance quoting models using lessons learned from current manufacturing programs
Qualifications:
- Experience: Minimum 7-10 years of related experience in cost engineering manufacturing or similar technical role
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in CAD software preferably Creo or SolidWorks
- Materials Knowledge: Familiarity with resins commonly used in injection molding (PBT PC ABS PP PA)
- Manufacturing Experience: Hands-on experience in injection molding arena with preferred experience in tooling and processing
- Secondary Processes: Knowledge of decorative finishes including Paint PVD Pad Print Laser Etching and sonic welding
- Analytical Skills: Excellent analytical mathematical and problem-solving abilities
- Software Proficiency: Solid understanding of spreadsheet applications particularly MS Excel
- Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical documentation and cross-functional collaboration
Education:
- Bachelor of Science (BS) or Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Engineering Manufacturing Business or related field.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
