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Cost Engineer - Powertrain - Valladolid relocation

Workplace: 47002, Valladolid

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What to expect:

- Build and maintain in-house competitive costing capabilities:
- Develop Competitive Costing Process and Tools.
- Collect necessary data for Costing, using internal and external teardown information.
- Identify cost drivers, material choices, manufacturing processes, and sourcing strategies used by competitors.
- Maintain a database of benchmarked cost data for use in ongoing and future projects.
- Realize Costing assessments
- For powertrain at large, including engines, transmissions, batteries and other systems
- Formalize detailed should costs analyses and gap analyses
- Collaborate and Communicate
- Coordinate with internal costing engineers to develop consistent tools and practices.
- Work closely with engineering, procurement, and finance teams to validate benchmarking assumptions and ensure data accuracy.
- Prepare detailed reports and presentations summarizing findings, cost differentials, and strategic recommendations for management and engineering teams.

What you bring along:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, or a related field
Minimum 7 years of experience in powertrain costing within the automotive industry
Experience with cost benchmarking, teardown analysis, and competitive intelligence in the automotive sector.
Knowledge of Costing Software, including preferably Siemens Costing SW.
Strong analytical skills and proficiency with cost modelling tools and techniques.
Ability to interpret technical and financial data from diverse sources
Excellent communication and presentation skills for conveying complex benchmarking findings.
Project management experience.
Knowledge of the latest trends in automotive powertrain.
Fluency in English. Fluency in Spanish and/or French, to effectively communicate in our diverse work environment.

We are Bertrandt: an independent, international development service provider with long years of automotive expertise.

We create technological solutions for our customers at any stage of the product development process with a focus on hot topics such as digitalization, e-mobility and autonomous systems, largely for the automotive, aerospace and mechanical engineering sectors.

Our goal: accelerating technological progress. We work on this every day – with around 12,000 employees at over 50 sites worldwide.