Job Title: Train Cost Engineer
Purpose of the Job
- To Animate the Design to Cost within Tender and Project
- To set up priorities and clear guidance to the development teams to achieve the cost objectives
- To coordinate the Design to Cost resources to deliver the relevant expertise to the Tender & Projects
Organisation Reporting: To adapt site by site, but the recommendation by order of preference is Engineering Dpt, Costing Dpt, Tender & Project Dpt
Network & Links
- Ref Lib, Tender or Project team members / Sub-system manager
- Bid Cost Manager / Project Controller / Competitiveness Manager
- Train Cost Leader / Analyst
- Lead Engineer and Designer
- Design to cost Network
- Industrial team
- Sourcing team
Mission
- Accuracy of the cost calculation versus technical product definition
- Respect of time commitments & DFQ cycle requirements
- Capability to supply rational analysis & deliverables based on factual cost data & figures
- Capacity to stimulate the work and maintain cohesion between participants
- Saving potentials transformation
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Agree the Design to Cost Roadmap with the Tender or Project Core Team, the related budget and report on it
- Coordinate the whole Design to Cost studies and metiers to meet the agreed objectives
- Insure the transformation of the listed opportunities into validated cost reduction versus base line
- Be the "voice" of the Design to Cost in the Tender or Project team, insure and organize regular Steering Committees to report on the progresses
Detailled responsibilities:
- Animate the Design to Cost by applying the DtC tools and methodologies
- Calculate & Regularly update the "Cost by Unit in Dev" of the Train by IBS & Sub-Systems
- Define & agree the Recurring "Cost per Unit" target of the Train by IBS & Sub-Systems while getting the adhesion of the project stakeholders
- Coordinate the Costing resources & expertise
- Base on the Benchmark, DtC expertise & targets versus the Recurring Cost to Date of the train, highlight the main cost stakes and propose Priorities to the Tender or Project stakeholders.
- Listen to the Tender or Project team needs of Business Cases, adapt and agree the priorities with the Tender or Project core team
- Define the Design to Cost roadmap & Design to Cost Deliverables regarding the Priorities defined and the DFQ cycle
- Make sure the Design to Cost deliverables are delivered according to the DFQ cycle & Roadmap agreed
- Organize creative / brainstorming session (no taboo – openness – result oriented) to transform into validated savings, the Design to Cost potentials which have been identified by the DtC Analysis
- Establish the synthesis report, follow DtC KPIs and the evolution of the total "Cost by Unit" at Train & Sub-System level
- Organizer regular DtC Steering Committees to report it and ask the core team for go / no go Arbitrations
- The Scope of work is limited to Recurring Production Cost (Material + Assembly hours of the Train and Sub-Systems) even if NRC are taken in consideration when meaningful in the Business Cases
Accountabilities
Based on the Deliverables issued by the Train Cost Leader & the expertise of the Design to Cost team:
- Validate the train Cost per Unit in Dev
- Propose and Agree the Train Target Cost per Unit together with the project team at Train and Sub-System level
- Put the Target Cost and other DtC Targets in a DtC TRS and insure their diffusion to the project stakeholders
Based on the Design to Cost process:
- Put in place a DtC governance with the métiers and with the project teams such as steering committees, KPIs & follow-up meeting
- Put in place the relevant deliverables to monitor the Design to Cost key success factors (such as Cost Calculation Note, Cost and Saving tracking, KPIs ...)
- Build the dashboard to show it to the Tender or Project team
Based on the priorisation issued by the Train Cost Leader analysis & cost follow-up:
- Deliver and update at least monthly to the Tender or Project team the main cost stakes to be addressed
- Propose for each of them the relevant action plan using the Design to Cost processes, tools & expertise
- Participate to those action plans and insure the transformation of the identified potential into validated savings
Communication:
- Ensure the alignment with the product definition and put in place a close and fruitful communication with and between all the Design to Cost and Core Team métiers
- Make sure their requirements are considered and that DtC results are known and circulated
Knowledge & Experience
Mandatory
- Good product knowledge
- Good Product Competitiveness knowledge
- Good industrial Process knowledge
- Curious
- Open-mindedness
- Rigorous
- Good communication with other people
- English Speaker
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