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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of product cost, value engineering, sourcing, manufacturing engineering, or cross-functional program leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading cost reduction or value creation projects from opportunity through implementation.
• Knowledge of product cost, financial analysis, value methodology, design tradeoffs, and manufacturing processes.
• Ability to lead through influence, resolve cross-functional tradeoffs, and communicate with technical, financial, and executive audiences.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent and unrestricted basis; the position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• SAVE International certification or formal value methodology training.
• Master’s degree, MBA, or Lean Six Sigma certification.
• Experience with engineered products, design-to-value, product line simplification, or complexity reduction.
• Experience managing an enterprise cost optimization portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Build and prioritize the enterprise value engineering and cost optimization pipeline using clear selection criteria and business priorities.
• Establish governance for project decisions, escalation, benefit commitments, and sustainment.
• Provide leaders with visibility into committed, completed, at-risk, and remaining opportunities.
• Recommend portfolio priorities and resource actions based on value, feasibility, timing, and risk.
• Lead high-value cross-functional projects involving product design, sourcing, manufacturing, product management, and operations.
• Coordinate technical decisions, resources, risks, timing, and customer or quality tradeoffs through implementation.
• Align value engineering, design-to-value, complexity reduction, product line simplification, and cost reduction work.
• Ensure project plans define ownership, required decisions, measurable benefits, and sustainment expectations.
• Develop and maintain value analysis and value engineering methods, standards, and review practices.
• Coach project teams in opportunity definition, business case quality, cross-functional decision making, and implementation discipline.
• Create reusable tools and learning to improve the quality and consistency of value engineering across Graco.
• Partner with Finance and program analysis resources to strengthen business cases and validate savings.
• Partner with functional leaders to identify barriers, resolve priorities, and maintain accountability for results.
• Communicate portfolio performance, decisions, and risks clearly to operational and executive audiences.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Stock purchase plan
• 401(k)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Career development opportunities
• Attractive compensation