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Date: 14 Apr 2026
Company: Alstom
Overview
Job Title: Product Cost Engineer
Purpose of the Job
- Realize an estimation of the technical cost of the parts / systems defined by the engineering team
- Support the engineering team in the development to cost way of working
- Participate at the creation of the target cost
- Support sourcing team in the negotiation with the suppliers
Organisation
Organisation structure (job belongs to..)
RSC Development / SED - Train Development Site
Reports directly to: Engineering Dpt - Site Design to Cost Metier Manager
Network & Links
- Projet Engineering Manager and Train Design Engineer and DtC animator
- Lead Engineer and Designer
- Design to cost Network
- Sourcing team
Main Responsibilities
Performance Measurement/KPI’s
- Apply or develop a methodology to calculate the technical cost of a component/system along the product development cycle (from parametric to analytic methodology)
- Apply or develop cost analysis method on the cost of a component/system
- Purpose improvements of the design or manufacturing process to reduce the technical cost.
- Promote the cost culture in the engineering team
- Provide the cost breakdown of the component to the sourcing team (negotiation support)
Responsibilities
- Based on the Specifications of a family of product :
- Create a cost model on a family of product
- Evaluate the technical cost of the component by using cost model approach
- Based on the Design of the component :
- Take assumptions about the industrial processes
- Calculate the technical cost of the component by using the appropriated tool
- Contribute to the improvement of the cost métier :
- To be a referent on a process or a family of product
- Share the feedback coming from the supplier
- Formalize the saving opportunities
Main Required Competencies
Educational Requirements
- Good product knowledge
- Good industrial Process knowledge
- Curious
- Open-mindedness
- Rigorous
- Good communication with other people
Nice to have
- Previous experience in Railway domain
- Able to use DMA/CATIA for basic work
- Able to use SAP to extract costing information
- Italian language fluency (written and spoken)
