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Your Role

As an Automotive Cost Engineer, you will be responsible for should costing of Carpet systems, Acoustic Insulation components, Wheel Arch liners, and Hood insulation assemblies including sub-components. You will ensure effective supplier quote review, DCW approval, and competitor benchmarking, along with supporting RFQ/RFI planning through robust cross-functional collaboration.

In this role, you will:
- Develop bottom-up should-cost models covering carpet, insulation, wheel arch, and hood insulation, including process mapping, cycle time estimation,



and regional labor/machine rate benchmarking.
- Validate cost drivers such as raw materials, conversion costs, and margins, and build Excel-based models with assumptions and analysis.
- Perform supplier cost analysis by identifying gaps vs should cost, highlighting cost inflation, and supporting negotiations with structured outcomes.
- Challenge supplier assumptions on labor, materials, overheads, and eliminate non-value-added costs.
- Manage program cost including piece cost, tooling, ED&D;, and drive gap closure plans.
- Drive Value Engineering (VA/VE) through design simplification, material optimization, and process improvements with quantified savings.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing, and Supplier teams for design-to-cost, sourcing strategy, and feasibility validation.
- Perform cost benchmarking across regions and architectures to establish best-in-class references.
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