Lead Engineer, Cost Management

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Are you an engineer with experience in IT/Finance?

Do you aspire to lead a new digitalisation project for cost management as well as ensuring new product designs achieve cost targets across the value chain?

If you like to be part of an expanding team with increasing responsibility, then you may be the Lead Engineer we are looking for in our Cost Management team within Vestas Power Solutions!

Power Solutions Industrialisation Product Lifecycle Management Cost Management
Vestas Power Solutions is where new product ideas or technologies are matured, developed, tested and improved. To put it short, Vestas Power Solutions (VPS) is the cornerstone of Vestas. We are shaping the future of modern energy.

The Cost Engineering department is part of the Industrialization area of VPS. The department is responsible for ensuring all new products & technologies achieve their value chain cost targets. With a successful track record the team of 5 is looking to expand to take on more responsibility to ensure all new technologies can achieve the required market demands.

The purpose is to ensure the correct design and product choices are made with the most accurate value chain cost data. Our team both challenges and tracks total cost for all new products, giving us a unique insight to provide input to the future product roadmap.

Responsibilities
Your main areas of responsibility will be the following:

  • To lead a new digitalisation project for cost management
  • To develop new cost models for future engineering projects and new modular products
  • To provide the official product cost input to the Vestas sales price
  • To challenge and support new product developments to bring down costs
  • Cost tracking, reporting and analysing
  • Identify cost out potentials relating to standardisation and modularisation (pareto analyses etc.)
  • Benchmark with best-in-class on Lean Accounting and establish Lean Accounting principles for total Value Chain at Vestas

Naturally, it is important to secure transparency of the product & value chain costs as well as stakeholder alignment across the company.

Qualifications

  • You may have 3-5 years + experience within a similar role from a manufacturing environment, wind would be ideal but you might also come from other industries like aerospace, automotive etc.
  • You hold a Master’s degree / MBA, preferably Engineering or Finance background. In addition, it is preferred that you have experience in new IT solutions, architecture and programming
  • Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal
  • Experience of Microsoft packages, and IT development. SAP PLC, aPriori, BI and other project tools would be beneficial
  • It is beneficial with knowledge of Engineering Cost Drivers (Value engineering), Value Chain Understanding, as well as IT database and IT tool creation (SQL, Visual basic, SAP HANA, etc) in combination with Financial modelling

Competencies

The successful candidate will either have competencies in these areas:

Proactive and self-driven

  • In near future, you must have the drive to see the tasks, challenges, issues and problems arising and deal with these accordingly without instruction from other parties

Diplomatic

  • It is a must that you can handle conflicting interests between design parameters such as product cost, investment costs, resources and project deadlines

Assertive and well-spoken

  • Critical competence needed in situations where product cost estimates do not meet product cost targets, which could jeopardise the viability of the project and product. Good communication skills help you as well succeed when presenting your results

Furthermore, we envision that you possess a:

  • Keen interest in the financial impact of product design as well the technicalities of the design to enable understanding between the financial area and the engineering area
  • Detail-oriented and analytic approach in product cost consolidation
  • Good understanding of Value chain and the cost drivers within
  • Costing experience within a modularisation and standardisation project is preferred

What we offer

At Vestas, you are on the technological frontier, working with experts within wind energy to develop and design our industry-leading products and services. You are part of an international team, and a global and cross-functional work environment. Your expertise and innovations contribute to the growth of wind energy and make our planet more sustainable.

We offer an exciting job with excellent opportunities for professional and personal development in an inspiring environment at the world's leading wind turbine producer. We value initiative, responsibility and the right balance between creativity and quality in all solutions. You will become part of a highly professional environment with strong Cost Management knowledge and commitment. You will get a unique opportunity to influence the further development of Cost Engineering Department and value chain costing.

Additional information
Primary work location: Aarhus N, Denmark.

You can expect approximately 10-20 travel days per year.

For further information about the position please contact Senior Specialist, Cost Management, Charles Dawkes via phone +45 4160 7410.

About Vestas

Vestas is the energy industry’s global partner on sustainable energy solutions. We design, manufacture, install, and service wind turbines across the globe, and with more than 101 GW of wind turbines in 80 countries, we have installed more wind power than anyone else.

Through our industry-leading smart data capabilities and unparalleled more than 86 GW of wind turbines under service, we use data to interpret, forecast, and exploit wind resources and deliver best-in-class wind power solutions.

Together with our customers, Vestas’ more than 24,600 employees are bringing the world sustainable energy solutions to power a bright future.

We invite you to learn more about Vestas by visiting our website at www.vestas.com and following us on our social media channels.

Kilde: Jobnet.dk


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Jobbet er oprettet på vores service den 8.7.2019, men kan have været deaktiveret og genaktiveret igen.

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