Job Description

This Job Role is part of Job Family "Program and Project Management" / Sub-Job-Family "Others" and includes jobs which clearly belong to the job family but can not be assigned to any of the other sub job families in meaningful/reasonable manner.

About the Team:

Join the fast paced and exciting role within Value Management for the growing and VME. business unit.

What you can look forward to as AM-VAVE Breaking Specialist:

Increases profitability by driving design changes or substituting suppliers reducing overall BOM cost;
Facilitate cross functional workshops to develop cost reduction ideas;
Drive design changes through engineering systems using established engineering processes (e.g. SRC, CCB and CRB).
Lead technical discussions and cross-functional project meetings;
Work with the Test and Validation group to plan and maintain timing to validate the cost-reduction ideas;
Present cost reduction ideas to internal and external stakeholders.
Support Design to Cost by generating design alternatives to achieve product cost targets.
Provide relevant reporting for cost decisions (status reports of ongoing activities, progress towards savings target implementation, and forward workshop planning).
Negotiating cost delta for any engineering change.
Visit suppliers (global locations) to analyze their manufacturing process/materials/tooling costs;
Program management role or product management role, which can offer some other skills not just from engineering.
The VMT position will require a lot of early engagement and people influencing capability.

Your profile as AM-VAVE Breaking Specialist:

Bachelor’s degree in electrical/mechanical engineering with general technical understanding of Electronic/Mechanical components is required;
Min. 5 years of previous design engineering experience within electronics and electronics related products (Power module, ECU design);
Previous cost reduction by design improvement experience is desired;
Flexible, open minded, self-motivated and with an ability to lead teams without direct authority

Be part of our ZF team as AM- VAVE Breaking Specialist and apply now!

Contact

Sharifunnisa Mohammed

AM- VAVE Breaking Specialist

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