Product Cost Engineer

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Date: 14 Apr 2026

Company: Alstom

Overview

Job Title: Product Cost Engineer

Purpose of the Job

• Realize an estimation of the technical cost of the parts / systems defined by the engineering team
• Support the engineering team in the development to cost way of working
• Participate at the creation of the target cost
• Support sourcing team in the negotiation with the suppliers

Organisation

Organisation structure (job belongs to..)

RSC Development / SED - Train Development Site

Reports directly to: Engineering Dpt - Site Design to Cost Metier Manager

Network & Links

• Projet Engineering Manager and Train Design Engineer and DtC animator
• Lead Engineer and Designer
• Design to cost Network
• Sourcing team

Main Responsibilities

Performance Measurement/KPI’s

• Apply or develop a methodology to calculate the technical cost of a component/system along the product development cycle (from parametric to analytic methodology)
• Apply or develop cost analysis method on the cost of a component/system
• Purpose improvements of the design or manufacturing process to reduce the technical cost.
• Promote the cost culture in the engineering team
• Provide the cost breakdown of the component to the sourcing team (negotiation support)

Responsibilities

• Based on the Specifications of a family of product :
  • Create a cost model on a family of product
  • Evaluate the technical cost of the component by using cost model approach
• Based on the Design of the component :
  • Take assumptions about the industrial processes
  • Calculate the technical cost of the component by using the appropriated tool
• Contribute to the improvement of the cost métier :
  • To be a referent on a process or a family of product
  • Share the feedback coming from the supplier
  • Formalize the saving opportunities

Main Required Competencies

Educational Requirements

• Good product knowledge
• Good industrial Process knowledge
• Curious
• Open-mindedness
• Rigorous
• Good communication with other people

Nice to have

• Previous experience in Railway domain
• Able to use DMA/CATIA for basic work
• Able to use SAP to extract costing information
• Italian language fluency (written and spoken)