Description
Cost Reduction Design Engineer
To work as Design Engineering resource on Cost Reduction activities. Complete and drive general design activities such as modelling and drawing creation/modification, along with more specific cost analysis work to identify cost savings within company products and processes.
Key Accountabilities:
- Support the Cost Optimisation Manager and other members of the Cost Reduction team in the cost analysis of designed parts and advise on possible cost reductions.
- Work with purchasing and suppliers to analyse and reduce costs.
- Identify product and process cost reduction solutions.
- Using 3D CAD, produce new detailed designs of cost reduced solutions and drive them through the prototype dept. or production site, to approval for implementation into live product.
- Ensure all new solutions are designed with the highest level of DFx input.
- Design For Cost, Manufacture, Assembly, Test, etc.
- Work with the Cost Optimisation Manager and other members of the Cost Reduction team to keep the development of unique parts to a minimum and focus on the standardisation/rationalisation of parts where possible.
- Issue drawings and bills of material to the factory and customers using the CAD system.
- Work with global manufacturing on cost reduction activities.
- Take on other tasks and projects relating to cost optimisation.
- Work to ISO 9001 quality standards
- Ability to thrive in a high pressure and developing environment. The ability to continuously improve standards & quality of the department.
Secondary Activities/Tasks
- To undertake any other duties and responsibilities as required/instructed in order to maintain and/or improve the efficiency, quality and service of the department.
- Health & Safety - adherence to all Company Health & Safety Policies, Procedures and Safe Working Practices.
Experience Knowledge & Skills - Essential
- 3D CAD experience.
- Experience of working in the engineering field.
- Experience of working in a commercial environment.
- HNC Mechanical and/or Electrical Engineering or similar
- Excellent problem solving skills. Shows initiative and creativity.
- Good research skills for continuous improvement projects.
- Good knowledge of quality systems.
- Capable retrieving and analysing data.
- Good business awareness (can see the bigger picture).
- PC literate - use of MS Office packages (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.).
- Good knowledge of materials and the supply chain.
- Ability to understand engineering drawings.
- Operational experience of product data management, BoM control and engineering change process.
- Excellent product BoM cost management experience.
Desirable
- Electrical experience is preferred
- Degree in Mechanical and or Electrical engineering or similar
- Experience of Unigraphics NX CAD and TeamCentre PDM/PLM tools.
- Advanced problem solving skills (ie FMEA, Ishikawa)
- DFx experience (Cost, Manufacture, Test)
- Project planning and execution including reporting and risk management
- Jig/fixture design experience.
- Product design experience.
- Knowledge of switchgear design.