Date Posted: 10/30/2024
Hiring Organization: Rose International
Position Number: 473663
Job Title: Product Cost Analyst
Job Location: Mossville, IL, USA, 61552
Work Model: Hybrid
Employment Type: Temporary
Estimated Duration (In months): 12
Min Hourly Rate($): 40.00
Max Hourly Rate($): 45.00
Must Have Skills/Attributes: Data Analysis, Office Skills, Project Management
Job Description
Position is flexible with work hours and location - may start earlier or later depending on collaboration requirements with global product development teams.
Education & Experience Required:
- Bachelor's degree in an accredited Engineering curriculum preferred, but open to considering an applicant with an Applied Engineering or Technical Business background. 5+ years industry experience preferred.
Technical Skills (Required)
- Advanced proficiency with collaboration/project management methods and Microsoft Office programs (e.g. SharePoint, Teams, Excel, PowerBi, etc.)
- Ability to conduct analysis on large data sets, quickly summarize key results/trends and incorporate into stakeholder reports.
- Basic knowledge of a full product development lifecycle: business value, systems interactions, requirements gathering, functional specification authoring, product development methods, testing/validation and value stream engineering.
Major Purpose:
- Major Job Duties & Responsibilities: Position is focused on project management & product cost optimization of hydraulic systems and components. Activities encompass leading a global team including domestic and international engineers, hydraulic component suppliers and machine design teams to deliver product material cost returns on business investment. Desired engineering skills include understanding machine hydraulic system architecture, hydraulic component interactions and ability to apply specialized technical information to understand functional requirements, draft detailed component requirements documents, evaluate material properties, complete design analysis/verification activities, lead detailed collaboration sessions with multiple teams, and conduct technical design reviews.
Why this Role?
- Client’s Global Hydraulics Organization within Integrated Components & Solutions Division (ICS) is seeking a Design Engineer role as lead product cost analyst across the hydraulics organization with supplemental role as product application engineer for vendor designed hydraulic cylinders. The successful candidate will join a dynamic product development team with lead responsibility for analyzing, influencing, implementing and reporting of cost management opportunities on global hydraulic components.
- Take command of executing New Product Introduction (NPI) programs with new hydraulic cylinder solutions, skillfully analyze customer product performance challenges, and develop new designs in a highly collaborative environment with the global hydraulic cylinder partners. This position will leverage your technical, commercial and project leadership skills to drive product cost management initiatives in alignment with procurement professionals, global design engineers, product manufacturing, and machine business division partners.
- Join us on a thrilling journey with opportunity to innovate and implement future hydraulic technology across the enterprise, redefining product solutions which enable unparalleled performance of client products and services.
Typical task breakdown:
- Attending and/or conducting team meetings (most virtually) collaboratively with internal product development teams and suppliers, creating/updating project management plans, conducting product cost and design analysis, reviewing engineering specifications/drawings, and conducting project stakeholder reviews. Key task also includes analysis on large data sets, organizing and summarizing impact, and reviewing trends.
- Apply technical knowledge of hydraulic cylinder design methods, component materials and metrology and technical specifications against application requirements to ensure the product as designed by a supplier with client unique integration and/or performance features are planned and executed in a manner that results in effective component product development, aligned with program deadlines. Engineer must be able to effectively manage technical information protection, schedule and organize project deliverables, complete both team and independent deliverables and create and/or coordinate technical and commercial information for report out in team and stakeholder reviews.
Interaction with team:
- Workday expectations are aligned with the regional product development teams to enable collaboration during core business hours.
Work environment:
- Hybrid Office/Remote. In-office expectations (subject to change) currently 3 days per week.
(Desired)
- Experience with modeling applications such as CREO and ability to read and interpret blueprints, technical drawings, schematics and analytical reports.
- Working knowledge of hydraulic components or systems desired.
Soft Skills (Required)
- Highly competent in both verbal and written communications, problem solving, customer service and interpersonal skills.
- Basic ability to lead team meetings, work effectively in a team environment, independently and efficiently manage one’s time, and taking initiative in completing deliverables.
- Detail oriented, analytical, innovative with problem solving ability and operating with urgency.
Benefits:
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Rose International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender (expression or identity), national origin, arrest and conviction records, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Positions located in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California will be administered in accordance with their respective Fair Chance Ordinances.
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