Senior Cost Planning Engineer

Honda Dev. and Mfg. of Am.,LLC•Raymond, OH

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one. We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success. We strive to be a company that serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.” We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team. If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future! Job Purpose To achieve HDMA business targets, it is critically important to determine whether a given part/system design is cost competitive and a reasonable value for the money. The Cost Coordinator performs a key role by analysing and assembling data to construct materials to support the proposals or arguments being made by the Cost Planning Engineer, e.g. Review the accuracy of cost estimates generated or received Harvest the benchmarking database and pull relevant examples adjusting appropriately for conditions in order to enhance Honda’s proposal. Allocate Cost and Investment appropriately so changes from old to current cost condition can be explained. Accurately upload part data to the Ahead system so the Category and Unit can be rolled up efficiently resulting in a highly credible cost report.

Requirements

The qualifying candidate mush have a college level Bacheleors degree in a STEM field.
At least 5 or more years of relevant experience, ideally in product development in automotive sector
Demonstrable technical expertise in part materials and manufacturing processes
Understanding of manufacturability of a particular design.
Must have advanced CATIA skill for construction, layout and proposal making.
Must ahve good Mircosoft Excel and Powerpoint for analysis, reporting and presentations.
Must have good interpersonal communication skills and be able to work in a in a fast-paced cross-functional environment.

Responsibilities

Manage collaboration with all stakeholders (design- purchasing-supplier) to gain consensus on part-by-part cost estimates, track the cost maturation in real time, identify gaps and address them by organizing follow-up discussions.
Regularly monitor that strategies are being applied consistently with the assumptions necessary to achieve the cost target.
Collaborate with the Cost Planning Engineer to drive all cost activity to completion according to schedule.
Compare Honda parts’ Cost/Performance positioning vs. other OEM competitors.
Where gaps exist, determine the characteristics driving the cost differences and identify opportunities for improvement.
Envision the total story – why the gap exists, and what should we do about it.
Persuade others while enhancing the argumentation so that a compelling case can be made.
For Themes that significantly impact cost or investment, perform benchmarking of the competitive field and study the functionality and cost effectiveness of similar solutions.
Establish a business case for the proposal, ensure that the target is reasonable and achievable or raise a concern if the business merit does not exist.
Consult with and inform the Cost Engineer in this task.
Perform other related duties as assigned or requested.