AM- VAVE Breaking Specialist

Job Description

This Job Role is part of Job Family "Program and Project Management" / Sub-Job-Family "Others" and includes jobs which clearly belong to the job family but can not be assigned to any of the other sub job families in meaningful/reasonable manner.

About the Team:  

Join the fast paced and exciting role within Value Management for the growing and VME. business unit. 

What you can look forward to as AM-VAVE Breaking Specialist: 

• Increases profitability by driving design changes or substituting suppliers reducing overall BOM cost; 
• Facilitate cross functional workshops to develop cost reduction ideas; 
• Drive design changes through engineering systems using established engineering processes (e.g. SRC, CCB and CRB). 
• Lead technical discussions and cross-functional project meetings; 
• Work with the Test and Validation group to plan and maintain timing to validate the cost-reduction ideas; 
• Present cost reduction ideas to internal and external stakeholders. 
• Support Design to Cost by generating design alternatives to achieve product cost targets. 
• Provide relevant reporting for cost decisions (status reports of ongoing activities, progress towards savings target implementation, and forward workshop planning). 
• Negotiating cost delta for any engineering change. 
• Visit suppliers (global locations) to analyze their manufacturing process/materials/tooling costs; 
• Program management role or product management role, which can offer some other skills not just from engineering.  
• The VMT position will require a lot of early engagement and people influencing capability. 

Your profile as AM-VAVE Breaking Specialist: 

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical/mechanical engineering with general technical understanding of Electronic/Mechanical components is required; 
• Min. 5 years of previous design engineering experience within electronics and electronics related products (Power module, ECU design); 
• Previous cost reduction by design improvement experience is desired; 
• Flexible, open minded, self-motivated and with an ability to lead teams without direct authority