Senior Cost Engineer

"Founded in 1927, the Volvo Group is committed to driving prosperity and shaping the future landscape through sustainable transport, mobility, and infrastructure solutions. By offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing and services that increase our customers’ uptime and productivity.

Our headquarters are in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo Group shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm."

We are a global team of specialized cost engineers, stationed across key sites in Gothenburg, Lyon, Bangalore, Greensboro, and Curitiba. Our primary focus is on delivering data-driven insights essential for engineering design, development cost, product cost, and tooling cost. We serve a diverse range of teams including project management, product development, and purchasing, offering support from the initial concept phase through to industrialization.
With expertise spanning Software/Hardware Engineering, Chemicals, Metallics, and EL/EE, our collaborative approach ensures seamless cooperation and the provision of detailed, bottom-up costings. As our engineers continue to pioneer cutting-edge technology in our products, we, as Cost engineers, remain dedicated to staying abreast of industry advancements and embracing new developments. 
About the role
As a Senior Cost Engineer, you will engage not only in polymer processes such as injection moulding, blow moulding, and thermoforming but also with diverse materials like foams, fabrics, ceramics, and more. This presents an exciting opportunity for you to use your technical skills at the forefront of technology.  
Product development and sourcing processes will keep your day busy. And with your analytical mindset, you will deep dive into the overall financial constraints of in-depth manufacturing process steps to maintain the competitiveness of our vehicles.  
With your finance expertise, you'll analyze hardware component and system costs for new truck projects. If you're new to manufacturing cost analysis, don't fret—you'll learn on the job. You'll soon master cost target settings and delve into activity-based cost breakdowns, aligning with manufacturing processes. Joining our team means being appreciated for your unique contributions. Welcome to an exciting role among exceptional colleagues.
Additional responsibilities: 
With your understanding of the process, for the entire Tier 1 delivery unit and on the detailed BOM, you will calculate key complexity cost drivers. You will be responsible for the Hardware and tooling costs on components, and systems within the powertrain, chassis, cab interior/exterior. An additional competency is on polymer components and systems related to Battery and Fuel-Cell electrical vehicles.  
On an everyday basis, you will work with capturing the manufacturing process related to the Hardware and the tooling production – both technically and financially. You will also be responsible for understanding the overall sustainability requirements. Since you’re a true team player, you will also interact with the internal stakeholders, and cross-functional peers to build up the manufacturing cost.  
As we said, this is a pretty exciting role, right?

Who are you?

You're someone driven by growth and knowledge sharing, always seeking new opportunities. Your strong analytical skills and solution-oriented mindset make you effective both independently and in teams. A top-class communicator, you thrive in international collaborations. The occasional travel excites your curiosity, making this role a perfect fit.
Required qualifications: 
* Specialist knowledge in at least one of the fields: Automotive fabrics, Acoustics components, Thermoplastics, Thermojet and/or Elastomers. Knowledge in other fields such as Tool manufacturing, Automation, assembly lines etc. are a merit. 
* Engineer / Experienced Technician / Manufacturing Engineer / Maintenance with a background of lean experience in the automotive industry or in the supply chain. 
* A degree in Electronics/Mechanical engineering or an equivalent experience.  
* Knowledge on understanding of manufacturing economics and efficiency.  

Desired skills:
* Knowledge on state-of-the-art manufacturing processes. 
* Knowledge on costing of recycled and fossil-free materials.  
* Knowledge on global manufacturing cost.  
* Strong analytical background and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.   
* Experience on hardware/tool costing models and tools.


Why us?

Welcome to a warm atmosphere where you will surround yourself with friendly colleagues and be a part of an emphatic management. Here, you will work where the future is – developing exciting products at the forefront of our industry. 
So, you want to apply?
If our spirit, adaptability and customer-focused mindset light your inner fire, we might be a great match! 
Feel free to contact us if you have further questions.  
We look forward to your application!  

For questions, please contact hiring manager: 
Anders Borgersen, Global Manager Cost Engineering Chemical +46 765533257.
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