Project Cost Manager

Auburn Hills, MI, US • Posted 3 hours ago • Updated 2 hours ago
Full Time
On-site
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Skills

  • Project Costing
  • Project Engineering
  • Economics
  • IBM Rational
  • Business Cases
  • Management
  • Product Design
  • Budget
  • Cost Reduction
  • HVAC
  • Commodities
  • Exceed
  • Cross-functional Team
  • Reporting
  • Microsoft Excel
  • VLOOKUP
  • Pivot Table
  • Qlik Sense
  • Product Costing
  • Certified Public Accountant
  • Global Sourcing
  • Sourcing
  • Forms

Summary

The Cross Carline and Project Engineering Team is a critical part of the vehicle development with responsibly to ensure overall program level feasibility and target setting. The Economics Manager is responsible for managing cost development (cost loops and assessments) for programs from the Pre-Contract Commitment Milestone through Start of Production and potentially the end of life for a vehicle program. The Manager will own the target development process to ensure total production cost and supplier tooling costs are complete and rational to support the business case. The Manager will work with multiple cross functional organizations and all levels of management from senior executives to product design and release engineers.

Job responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • Develop component level cost targets, applying vehicle top-down budget allocation
  • Understand and apply reference vehicle data and design to cost savings to EBOM component level data
  • Understanding of vehicle construction by systems (Body, Chassis, Powertrain, Interior, etc) and subsystems (Underbody, suspension, trim, cooling, HVAC, etc)
  • Understand part break up of vehicles and how they are assembled
  • Ability to identify and organize technical commodities into their functional purpose
  • Identify and propose design alternatives to meet and exceed aggressive cost targets
  • Lead cross functional team reviews of cost status to target, component sourcing, governance cost report outs

Methodology/Tools Knowledge:

  • Excel commands (Vlookup, pivot tables)
  • Cost Service Tool / Vehicle Program Checkbook
  • Fastcar2
  • EBOM & STV
  • SMAK (Vehicle volume tracking)
  • QlikSense
  • Product Cost Study (PCS) CPA Year over Year Tool
  • Global Sourcing Tool (GST) & Sourcing Offset Forms
  • PentaSAP
  • Global Bulletin System
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  • Dice Id: appfeed
  • Position Id: 4268_5001211100206
  • Posted 3 hours ago
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