Train Cost Engineer

Job Title: Train Cost Engineer

Purpose of the Job

• To Animate the Design to Cost within Tender and Project
• To set up priorities and clear guidance to the development teams to achieve the cost objectives
• To coordinate the Design to Cost resources to deliver the relevant expertise to the Tender & Projects

Organisation Reporting: To adapt site by site, but the recommendation by order of preference is Engineering Dpt, Costing Dpt, Tender & Project Dpt

Network & Links

• Ref Lib, Tender or Project team members / Sub-system manager
• Bid Cost Manager / Project Controller / Competitiveness Manager
• Train Cost Leader / Analyst
• Lead Engineer and Designer
• Design to cost Network
• Industrial team
• Sourcing team

Mission

• Accuracy of the cost calculation versus technical product definition
• Respect of time commitments & DFQ cycle requirements
• Capability to supply rational analysis & deliverables based on factual cost data & figures
• Capacity to stimulate the work and maintain cohesion between participants
• Saving potentials transformation

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Agree the Design to Cost Roadmap with the Tender or Project Core Team, the related budget and report on it
• Coordinate the whole Design to Cost studies and metiers to meet the agreed objectives
• Insure the transformation of the listed opportunities into validated cost reduction versus base line
• Be the “voice” of the Design to Cost in the Tender or Project team, insure and organize regular Steering Committees to report on the progresses

Detailled responsibilities:

• Animate the Design to Cost by applying the DtC tools and methodologies
• Calculate & Regularly update the “Cost by Unit in Dev” of the Train by IBS & Sub-Systems
• Define & agree the Recurring “Cost per Unit” target of the Train by IBS & Sub-Systems while getting the adhesion of the project stakeholders
• Coordinate the Costing resources & expertise
• Base on the Benchmark, DtC expertise & targets versus the Recurring Cost to Date of the train, highlight the main cost stakes and propose Priorities to the Tender or Project stakeholders.
• Listen to the Tender or Project team needs of Business Cases, adapt and agree the priorities with the Tender or Project core team
• Define the Design to Cost roadmap & Design to Cost Deliverables regarding the Priorities defined and the DFQ cycle
• Make sure the Design to Cost deliverables are delivered according to the DFQ cycle & Roadmap agreed
• Organize creative / brainstorming session (no taboo – openness – result oriented) to transform into validated savings, the Design to Cost potentials which have been identified by the DtC Analysis
• Establish the synthesis report, follow DtC KPIs and the evolution of the total ”Cost by Unit” at Train & Sub-System level
• Organizer regular DtC Steering Committees to report it and ask the core team for go / no go Arbitrations
• The Scope of work is limited to Recurring Production Cost (Material + Assembly hours of the Train and Sub-Systems) even if NRC are taken in consideration when meaningful in the Business Cases

Accountabilities

Based on the Deliverables issued by the Train Cost Leader & the expertise of the Design to Cost team:

• Validate the train Cost per Unit in Dev
• Propose and Agree the Train Target Cost per Unit together with the project team at Train and Sub-System level
• Put the Target Cost and other DtC Targets in a DtC TRS and insure their diffusion to the project stakeholders

Based on the Design to Cost process:

• Put in place a DtC governance with the métiers and with the project teams such as steering committees, KPIs & follow-up meeting
• Put in place the relevant deliverables to monitor the Design to Cost key success factors (such as Cost Calculation Note, Cost and Saving tracking, KPIs …)
• Build the dashboard to show it to the Tender or Project team

Based on the priorisation issued by the Train Cost Leader analysis & cost follow-up:

• Deliver and update at least monthly to the Tender or Project team the main cost stakes to be addressed
• Propose for each of them the relevant action plan using the Design to Cost processes, tools & expertise
• Participate to those action plans and insure the transformation of the identified potential into validated savings

Communication:

• Ensure the alignment with the product definition and put in place a close and fruitful communication with and between all the Design to Cost and Core Team métiers
• Make sure their requirements are considered and that DtC results are known and circulated

Knowledge & Experience

Mandatory

• Good product knowledge
• Good Product Competitiveness knowledge
• Good industrial Process knowledge
• Curious
• Open-mindedness
• Rigorous
• Good communication with other people
• English Speaker