Edwards Vacuum
Senior Product Cost Engineer - Sustaining
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As a Senior Product Cost Engineer - Sustaining, reporting to the Associate Principal Engineer – Mechanical Design, the Senior Product Cost Engineer is responsible for identifying cost-reduction opportunities and designing, validating, and implementing engineering changes to mechanical and/or electrical components to deliver realised cost savings, while maintaining required standards for safety, performance, quality, and compliance.
You Will
- Deliver released engineering design changes that reduce the cost of Edwards products and components (mechanical and/or electrical) while maintaining required standards for safety, performance, quality, and compliance.
- Identify and convert cost reduction opportunities across mechanical and electrical components into implemented engineering solutions, resulting in released changes and realised savings.
- Own the engineering design output for assigned cost reduction initiatives, producing the required models, drawings, specifications, and Bills of Materials to enable manufacture and release.
- Demonstrate that lower cost mechanical or electrical solutions are acceptable replacements for existing designs, through appropriate analysis, testing, trials, and validation.
- Enable successful implementation of cost reduction changes into production by working with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and external suppliers to ensure solutions are robust, manufacturable, and repeatable.
- Address design driven cost drivers in collaboration with Supply Chain, ensuring engineering decisions appropriately reflect supplier capability, manufacturing processes, and sourcing options.
- Maintain engineering accountability for risk, reliability, and compliance associated with cost reduction changes, ensuring savings are achieved without introducing unacceptable technical, safety, or operational risk.
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To Succeed, You Will Need
We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. We value diverse experiences and perspectives and are excited to see what you bring to the role.
- Engineering Degree Bachelors (minimum, essential), Masters (desirable), or demonstrable equivalent.
- Registered Chartered Engineer, or working towards and committed to achieving registration with a recognised engineering institution (desirable)
- Experience delivering hands-on engineering design changes to products or components in a manufacturing or product-based environment. Including designing, validating, and releasing engineering changes (Essential).
- Experience identifying and implementing cost-reduction or value-engineering opportunities through practical engineering solutions (Essential).
- Experience working directly with manufacturing teams and suppliers to implement engineering changes into production. (Essential).
- Strong practical engineering capability with the ability to design, modify, and release mechanical and/or electrical components. (Essential).
- Strong collaboration and influencing skills when working across Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, and suppliers. (Essential).
- Clear written and verbal communication skills suitable for technical discussions and engineering change justification. (Essential).
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In Return, We Offer
- Culture of trust and accountability
- Lifelong learning and career growth
- Innovation powered by people
- Comprehensive compensation and benefits
- Health and well-being
Job Location
This role offers a hybrid working arrangement, allowing you to split your time between working remotely and being on-site at our office in Bristol, United Kingdom (GB).
About Edwards
Edwards is a leading developer and manufacturer of sophisticated vacuum products, exhaust management systems and related value-added services. Edwards solutions are integral to manufacturing processes for semiconductors, flat panel displays, LEDs and solar cells. They are also used within an increasingly diverse range of industrial processes including power, glass and other coating applications; steel and other metallurgy; pharmaceutical and chemical; and for scientific instruments in a wide range of R&D applications.
Edwards has over 4,000 employees worldwide engaged in the design, manufacture and support of high technology vacuum and exhaust management equipment. Edwards has state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Europe, Asia and North America.
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