Cost Engineer, Specialist in Electronics

Cost Engineer, Specialist in Electronics Parts
At Purchasing, you are part of a global team with the mission to develop and maintain a world-class supplier base. Ensuring the supply of materials and services - at the right cost, quality and technology - is essential for the success of Volvo Car Group. Ultimately, it's all about cooperating with people inside and outside the company to create a superior experience for the people who buy and drive a Volvo.
Cost Estimation is a strategic function within purchasing at Volvo Car Group. The department to day consists of 30 persons. The competence of the department is to cover the cars total material cost for purchased parts. The group Cost estimation Electrical and Electronics System is today 7 persons. We are responsible for delivering fact based cost analysis on purchased parts within Volvo Cars based on specialist competence. We deliver cost estimates to support sourcing decision, design decisions and to control the tooling cost at the suppliers within the area of the cars electrical system.
As Cost Engineer you work independently and in team. You will be one in a team of specialists with great experience and skills within all different types of materials and manufacturing of parts for Volvo cars. The role as Cost Engineer serves to provide Volvo Car Groups Purchasing with specialist competence regarding fact based cost analysis on purchased parts. In the team of Purchaser, Design Engineer and Cost Engineer you are solely the person to estimate the cost for embedded electronic products or electronic components (based on specification and Bill of material) manufactured at the optimal production set up.
Main responsibilities

* Strive to make sure that Volvo Car Group always gets value for money when purchasing parts, by estimating Should cost (Bill Of Material and Production process) and delivering negotiation arguments to the buyers
* Supporting the buyer in negotiations with suppliers
* Support engineering with cost estimates to improve design decisions with cost perspective
* Estimating the cost for embedded electronic systems

Required qualifications

* A minimum of 10 years engineering experience of Electronic/MEMS components design/engineering and/or Purchase and/or Sales
* Good English skills spoken and written
* Experience from production design, production managing is an advantage
* Experience of cost calculations is meritorious
* Engineering studies on Master or Bachelor level is meritorious

Personal qualities

* Analytical ability
* Negotiation skills
* Good communication skills
* Strong business orientation
* Teamwork skills

About Volvo Car Group
The future belongs to those who are empowered by a great idea and have the ability to carry it out. At Volvo Car Group, our vision is clear: "To be the world's most progressive and desired premium car brand". And we believe our global success will be driven by making life less complicated for people, while strengthening our commitment to safety, quality and the environment. We have bold targets when it comes to innovation, sales and customer satisfaction and to make this happen, we need talented people onboard. People with passion, energy, business sense and the drive to innovate. People that want to create the next generation Volvo cars in a global, dynamic and respectful environment. We will support you to reach your full potential. Join us on this exciting journey into the future.
Contact
In this recruitment process we are collaborating with Randstad Professionals. If you have any questions regarding the position you are welcome to contact the responsible recruitment consultant Nadja Bergman at +46 729 889828 or by e-mail nadja.bergman@randstad.se.
Interviews will be held continuously. Female applicants are encouraged to apply. To apply, please register your profile and attach your application documents via the link below as soon as possible but no later than 17th of August, 2015.