Role SummaryLead Design-to-Cost (DTC) and Value Engineering initiatives for global industrial, material handling, off-highway, and automotive customers. Drive product cost optimization, should-cost analysis, DFMA studies, localization, benchmarking, and value realization programs while working closely with customer engineering, sourcing, manufacturing, and program teams with minimum 15 year of experience.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead end-to-end Design-to-Cost and Value Engineering projects.
- Identify cost reduction opportunities through product redesign, material optimization, manufacturing process improvements, and localization.
- Perform should-cost analysis, teardown studies, benchmarking, and cost-driver analysis.
- Conduct DFMA assessments and develop value-engineering recommendations.
- Manage customer workshops and present cost-saving business cases.
- Collaborate with sourcing teams for supplier benchmarking and localization initiatives.
- Lead cross-functional teams comprising design, FEA, manufacturing, and sourcing engineers.
- Track savings pipeline, implementation status, and realized advantages.
- Support presales, proposals, and capability development in Value Engineering and Cost Engineering domains.

📌 Design to Cost (DTC) / Value Engineering Lead (Hyderabad)
🏢 Cyient
📍 Hyderabad