Position Title: Senior Engineer
- Cost Management Casting

Location:
Oragadam

Job Description
The Senior Engineer
- Cost Management (Al Casting) is responsible for driving cost engineering, target costing, and cost-reduction initiatives for high-precision aluminum cast components, specifically Cylinder Heads and Cylinder Blocks. Leveraging deep technical expertise in aluminum casting processes (HPDC, LPDC, GDC) and secondary machining operations, this role works cross-functionally with Sourcing, Current Engineering, NPD, and Quality Assurance. The incumbent validates cost sheets, leads value engineering (VAVE) projects, conducts supplier negotiations, manages commodity inflation/indexed clauses, and ensures strict adherence to vehicle business plan cost targets.

Key Responsibilities
Costing Build-Up & Scenario Modeling: Develop zero-based cost models, cost cards, and scenario analyses for aluminum cylinder heads, cylinder blocks, and cast parts to support cross-functional strategic decision-making. Cost Sheet Validation & NPD Support:



Validate technical cost sheets prepared by strategic sourcing for critical parts and provide cost-engineering support to NPD teams during vendor selection. Supplier Negotiations & Norms: Participate in price negotiations, review and sign off on costing norms (cycle times, melt loss, machine rates, tooling cost) with suppliers, and negotiate contract terms. Cost Reduction & VAVE: Identify, propose, and implement value engineering (VAVE) and alternative sourcing/material initiatives alongside Engineering and QA to achieve annual cost-reduction targets. Inflation Management & Variance Analysis: Track raw material market trends (e.g., aluminum index updates), manage price adjustment clauses in contracts, analyze cost variances, and execute risk-mitigation plans. Desired Skills and

Experience:

Education:
B.
E. / B.
Tech in Mechanical or Automobile Engineering

Experience:
6+ years of experience in cost engineering or cost management within the automotive industry (OEMs or Tier-1 casting ancillaries) Domain Focus: Heavy focus on engine components specifically Aluminum Cylinder Heads, Cylinder Blocks, and complex engine castings.

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